How to Keep Animals Out of Garbage Cans

If you have a garbage can, you have faced the dreaded can pushed over and trash scattered all over your yard. It is not a fun task to clean up and it is not a good thing to wake up to in the morning. Can it be prevented? Sure, there are several things that can be done to help keep animals from destroying your yard with your trash.

You can build a frame that you suspend the cans from so that they are 18 inches above the ground. This way if an animal tries to get in them, they will simply sway away and the animal will find itself on the ground.

To prevent an animal from getting in a garbage can you can build a box with a lid and a hasp to keep the lid closed. After building the box place the garbage can inside and lock the hasp.

You can tie two cans together. If the cans are tied together they are harder for the animals to knock over and scatter the trash inside all over your yard. This will not keep them from knocking them down, but does make it harder.

Garbage cans can be staked to the ground by using broom handles or stake that are placed through the handles of the garbage cans and then driven into the ground.

If you place your garage cans close to a fence or post you can tie the cans to the post or fence to keep them from being knocked over by the animals in the neighborhood.

Garbage can lids can be bungeed onto the garbage cans. If this is done tightly enough, then the animals will have more trouble getting to the garbage inside the can even if they knock the garbage can over.

Animals do not get into containers if they can not smell the food. To avoid this, simply pour bleach over the trash contents to kill the smell of food.

There are many ways to prevent animals from getting into your garbage cans and spreading the trash all over your yard. Most of these ideas are inexpensive and will work very well. The main idea when preventing animals from getting into your garbage cans is to keep the garbage cans situated so that the animals can not see or smell any food in them, then they will not want to get in them.