 to deter these raccoons from hanging around and washing their food in our pool. Yeah, well, it's funny you mention that because that's what they do. They go in the water to wash their food, but, of course, they leave it more disgusting as a result of that. The Centers for Disease Control has a lot of advice on this. It's surprisingly a big problem across the country, and they recommend fences around the pools. Of course, that's not always possible. The other reason the raccoons will like a particular area