Moving a young raccoon

[Suburban Plowboy]

You sound like me.

I killed a lot of squirrels. Then one day while I was working in my shop, a squirrel started gathering material for a nest and carrying it past me to a tree by my house. It wasn't scared of me at all. It took its time, making multiple trips.

I decided to let it live and have its babies, and then they ate my truck.

 

[Sigarms]

that coon will be back in your back yard the next day, because you fed it.

We are going to have to back to that reading comprehension of yours. I never fed it, nor did I EVER state that

And NO, there is absolutely no food around the house, and actually haven't had trash out for the last two weeks as well (because my wife's not home LOL).

 

[Sigarms]

End of the day, there is no food or garbage around the house, PERIOD Young coon never seen around the house. NEVER had a problem with coons before. Generally never have a problem with most wildlife, and if it does become a problem, it will end.

As I've gotten older, I've just got a distaste for killing it unless it's absolutely necessary, that's all. This coon by all it's behavior isn't rabid, and somehow it just ended up in my front yard at night (aways from the house mind you). If I can relocate it out back, I will. If it becomes a problem in any shape or form, than I'll go to plan B.

Thanks for your feedback everyone!

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Hope you'll post pictures if you make a hat.

 

[Sigarms]

Hope you'll post pictures if you make a hat.

You'll be the first to get them plowboy...

 

[Yander]

Crying over a ground hog?Jeessh, as a teen I used to trap them for sport and club the fers in the head or shoot the little destructive suckers.

Can't imagine crying over a damn GH. I try to run them over if I'm in the truck.

 

[5030]

My 17 HMR scoped Savage is a vermin getting. I sit on the back deck and when they go to the cat food which I can see clearly from the deck which is about 50 yards from the barn, I get them in the crosshairs and pop them, always a head shot. Coons and opossums are very destructive vermin, especially in a barn so I eliminate them on sight. I take the carcasses down to the creek bank so the yotes can eat them and then I shoot the yotes as well. Yotes are a bit more difficult but my night scoped 22-250 handles them pretty well and it's open season on yotes here, no hunting licenses required either.

Sigarms... You get a coon moving in tpo your home (basement), you'll wish you had eliminated it. They have to be the most destructive vermin around and they poop everywhere as well.

Groundhogs are good eating if you know how to prepare them and so are brown squirrels. One of my hunting buddies makes excellent squirrel stew and roast groundhog as well.

Bag limit on squirrels here is 10 and it takes at least 10 to make a good stew.

I hunt them in the fall in the woods behind the house but I use a 22. That way they don't get tore up too bad.

Like I said, fair game for me is coons, possums and wood puzzies and the wood puzzies go to my buddy for roast groundhog.

 

[Jstpssng]

Crying over a ground hog?Jeessh, as a teen I used to trap them for sport and club the fers in the head or shoot the little destructive suckers.

Can't imagine crying over a damn GH. I try to run them over if I'm in the truck.

Go back and read my comment.

 

[5030]

FYI, both squirrel and groundhog, if prepared correctly are good eating. Being vegetarians, the meat is always moist and tender. I find the flavor to be somewhere close to whitetail doe's. In between a doe and a mule deer, but then you have to know how to prepare them.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Go back and read my comment.

Yeah, crying over a groundhog! That was pretty disgraceful!

This is turning into an urban legend.