Moving a young raccoon

[Sigarms]

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.

Jeessh, you really need to work on your reading comprehension.

And I'm not even guy who you're making the comment about, as it's already been pointed out to another member about their own reading comprehension TWICE by two different members on two separate posts!

 

[Sigarms]

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.

I guess I'm blessed enough that I don't have a kill on sight instinct on any animal due to past experiences (except yellow jackets, for various reasons of my own).

That said, taking to the next level with intelligence of man, kind of no different than the way some people feel about others due to their own past experiences.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Just admit you cried about that groundhog. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

 

[Sigarms]

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

This is turning into an urban legend.

I can only assume that you are not ignorant? (one reason for emojis as to being
sarcastic).

 

[Hay Dude]

Jeessh, you really need to work on your reading comprehension.

And I'm not even guy who you're making the comment about, as it's already been pointed out to another member about their own reading comprehension TWICE by two different members on two separate posts!

Here’s what you said:

“Game plan is put the live trap out at night in the front yard, PUT SOME CAT FOOD IN IT….”

Maybe YOU lack reading comprehension, because you said you will put cat food out for it?!
Then you plan to relocate the coon on your property. To which I replied the coon will remember you fed it and return to the exact spot where you fed it.

I really think you did cry for shooting a wood chuck…..

 

[Yander]

I kill any animal that decides to make its home around my home. Skunks, Chipmunks, raccoons, groundhogs, squirrels, and coyote. I don't kill rabbits or deer.

The problem with turning your backyard into a wildlife habitat is these animals are destructive.

Once an animal decides to live around a house, I think it's going to be comfortable living around anyone's house. They belong in the woods. I don't go into a woods, even a close woods, and kill any of those animals unnecessarily. Exception being a coyote or a groundhog. I will kill those anywhere I find them.

I would shoot it.

 

[Yander]

Jeessh, you really need to work on your reading comprehension.

And I'm not even guy who you're making the comment about, as it's already been pointed out to another member about their own reading comprehension TWICE by two different members on two separate posts!

I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about the guy who said he cried over the groundhog.

 

[Jstpssng]

I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about the guy who said he cried over the groundhog.

We are trying to point out to you that nobody has said they cried over a groundhog.

THIS is what was said:

The last woodchuck I shot cried like a baby while I went back to the truck for a second bullet to kill it.

Read it v e r y s l o w l y and maybe you will understand what I said.

 

[Yander]

Go back and read my comment.

Oh, yeah, I see now you were talking about the groundhog crying. Now I think that makes the whole thing even funnier. . This is how rumors get started folks.

 

[drssg]

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!

I'm just curious, why does the raccoon bother you? Our dogs get rabies vaccinations, and raccoons have never been a significant thing in my life.

I noticed that your profile says you have 38 acres. If you catch and release it on that same property, I think it will definitely be back. You'll be lucky if it doesn't beat you home!