Deterring Racoons coming into house via catdoor?
We have 2 cats and a cat door. A racoon has been coming in regularly and we don't know how to get it to stop. At first it came to eat the cat food we usually leave out all the time, but we've started putting the food away at night and it still comes in, drinks from the cats' water bowl, and leaves messy footprints everywhere. (The good thing is that it doesn't seem to be out to hurt the cats). We want to keep the cat door unlocked at night for our cats to use (which is largely why we installed it to begin with) and don't really want to explore getting a cat door that responds to a tag on the cat's collar (or embedded in the cat?) for many reasons, including that our cats don't wear collars. We tried this stake you get at OSH which supposedly emits a high-frequency sound that deters rodents and racoons, but it hasn't worked. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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