At last, I started experimenting with all manner of animal-proof garbage cans. Finally, I found solutions to keeping the raccoons, squirrels, rodents, neighborhood dogs, and just about everything ...

Sanitation officials in Anchorage, Alaska, put their bear-resistant trash bins to the test with the help of some product testing experts: the Alaska Zoo's bears.

If you share your corner of the world with raccoons, you may know that our trash cans look like a buffet for them. But you don’t have to make things easy on them—we talked with animal and pest ...

The use of bear-resistant trash receptacles can help deter bears ... Slowly back away, avoid direct eye contact and be sure the animal has an escape route. Carry a bear whistle or bear alarm ...