Colorado animals will only come to your house if there is something on offer that they want, the number one thing they want of course is food but also pretty high on their want list is a warm dry place to bed down. If you provide a warm place for them to sleep they may use it once or twice but then disappear generally but if you provide them food as well then you're going to have to get rid of them the hard way because there is absolutely no chance they will leave voluntarily, well with a bit of encouragement they will.



I have heard all the stories about using mothballs and ammonia to keep wild Pueblo animals away from your property and I have to say that generally spreading mothballs around in particular is just a waste of money and a menace to any small children or pets that you have. I've seen videos where mothballs were spread to deter armadillos from digging under the fence and all they actually seemed to do was to mark the spot where the armadillo dug its latest hole. The only kind of animal deterred by mothballs or ammonium is one that relies on its sense of smell to find it's pray, like a mole, but just how spreading mothballs on the surface deters a mole who is underground I have no idea.

The absolute and only guaranteed way of keeping Colorado animals out of your house is to make sure they're absolutely no ways for the animal to enter your house, that means doing a thorough inspection of the outside of the building, finding any cracks or holes and then coming back and blocking all of them up, and you need to do this properly with at least steel mesh, anything less is a waste of time. Even after you have done this it will not deter some animals, especially raccoons, who have been known to just rip an ordinary soffit clean it out of its anchor points to get into the building.

Most of all before you use any kind of deterrent you have to make sure that you are complying with any local, state or federal laws, like did you know it is actually a criminal offense to either remove or kill bats, is a federal offense that carries some pretty nasty penalties. I've seen people advocating catching and relocating bats in particular but considering these are a migratory species that is not going to work, you could relocate the bat colony over 100 miles and they could be back in two days.

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