How much can raccoons eat?

[MossRoad]

I don't know how much they can eat but I can sure tell ya how much of what they ate they leave behind. BIG!

Yeah, they're kinda ungrateful in that regard.

 

[kf4uda]

My nephew had "a" raccoon killing his daughters 4H chickens. He trapped and dispatched 8 of them before it was over.

 

[Wakey]

My squirrel proof feeder isn’t raccoon proof. I thought I was getting shafted but your story!

 

[oosik]

It may not be how much they can eat as - how many are there. A year or so ago - a trail cam picture showed 'coons at a feeding station. I could easily count 18 'coons in the one picture.

 

[bcp]

Or you could do like this:

Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

They're gonna find this guy dead on his sofa some day, partially eaten by racoons.

 

[MossRoad]

Or you could do like this:

Bruce

I'd like people to notice that it's daylight and there's nothing wrong with those raccoons. It's an old wives tale that a raccoon out in daylight is sick. It's most likely hungry.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

All I can say is I hope what they are doing is really rewarding; to me it's just asking for trouble. My neighbors (before the divorce) used to put out corn for the deer. We had herds of deer, flocks of turkeys; geese and even Mallard ducks in their front yard...not to mention our yard, and helped themselves to our tomatoes, house plants, peas and other greenery from the flower beds.

 

[MossRoad]

We made the mistake of befriending a cute little bitty male raccoon when I was a kid. It played with us, the dog, everyone. It would sit on your lap. Look in your pockets. Let you pet it. Slit the screens on the windows and rummage through the kitchen. Wake you up in your bed sitting on you in the middle of the night. Tear holes in the roof once we shut the windows. Get super aggressive once it hit about 1 year old.... real cute. As long as you kept feeding it, it was docile. Once you stopped, it was aggressive. Downright mean. You'd try and get it out of the house and it would growl at you. Ended up getting a trap from the DNR and they relocated it to a state park. Felt bad about it, as it was our own doing. Don't befriend raccoons. You'll eventually regret it.

 

[MoKelly]

We made the mistake of befriending a cute little bitty male raccoon when I was a kid. It played with us, the dog, everyone. It would sit on your lap. Look in your pockets. Let you pet it. Slit the screens on the windows and rummage through the kitchen. Wake you up in your bed sitting on you in the middle of the night. Tear holes in the roof once we shut the windows. Get super aggressive once it hit about 1 year old.... real cute. As long as you kept feeding it, it was docile. Once you stopped, it was aggressive. Downright mean. You'd try and get it out of the house and it would growl at you. Ended up getting a trap from the DNR and they relocated it to a state park. Felt bad about it, as it was our own doing. Don't befriend raccoons. You'll eventually regret it.

Only 16 states allow pet raccoons.

Indiana is one of them.

Missouri is not.

MoKelly