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!

 

[Jstpssng]

. You'll be lucky if it doesn't beat you home!

Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.

 

[ponytug]

Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.

I'm sure that there is a story behind why you were vacuuming up ladybugs in the first place. Did they invade the house? Your truck...?

They migrate and overwinter in a couple places near here, and it is wild to walk down the trail and see what looks like all of the trees and shrubs around you are alive, covered with moving, shimmering bark, packed solid with ladybugs so densely that they are all crawling over each other.

All the best,

Peter
(Who is currently waiting for the annual influx to turn up and start munching on the aphids in the garden...)

 

[MMC]

For those of you with additional vermin beyond raccoons such as possums, opossums are a carrier for a disease called EPM that can cause debilitating disease in horses if left untreated.

Unlike raccoons, opossums rarely carry rabies as their body temperature is too low for the virus to reproduce well.

We do everything we can to minimize attractions to raccoons, skunks, and opossums. No outdoor feed, no outdoor garbage, and no corn. When raccoons get angry they certainly put the fear into me. I think that for such a small animal they pack a whole lot of ferocity.

All the best,

Peter

Yeah, the closer you get to raccoons, the less cute they begin to appear. If you have ever trapped a large boar raccoon in a cage and go to pick it up, you honestly begin to fear for your own safety. The growl they emit sounds like a mountain lion.

And they can back it up... A groundhog can slice up a dog in a fight.

A large raccoon is looking to eat the darned dog after the fight...

They are omnivores - if you have a garden or orchard (as I do), they can do tremendous damage in one night. Those peaches you spent all year spraying...gone, except for the pits at the base of the tree... Bread, fruit, corn, eggs, chicken...well, you get the idea. Thank the Lord they aren't bigger or they would be out in the fields at night with our beef and a bottle of A1 sauce.

To put it in perspective, my lovely wife is the kindest person you might meet. But...after a large amount of glassware she had was absolutely destroyed by a raccoon sow and her kits in a storage building on the farm, I captured the offender in a cage and placed it on the tailgate of my truck. As she passed the shop, I pointed to the raccoon and gave the thumbs up or thumbs down sign to her. Without hesitation, she turned her thumb down.

Lessons learned...first, raccoons do tremendous damage. Secondly, never piss off a quiet woman.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm sure that there is a story behind why you were vacuuming up ladybugs in the first place. Did they invade the house? Your truck...?

They migrate and overwinter in a couple places near here, and it is wild to walk down the trail and see what looks like all of the trees and shrubs around you are alive, covered with moving, shimmering bark, packed solid with ladybugs so densely that they are all crawling over each other.

All the best,

Peter
(Who is currently waiting for the annual influx to turn up and start munching on the aphids in the garden...)

What I call ladybugs are something released at some point in an attempt to get rid of another pest, I don't recall what. They are bad here in late winter, getting into houses by the hundreds. They are an annoyance just because there are so many; flying into your face, landing in your pot of spagetti sauce on the stove, dying and leaving carcasses everywhere.

 

[Dftodd]

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.

The ground hog was crying after being shot according to the post.

Another member misread said post.

 

[Yander]

The ground hog was crying after being shot according to the post.

Another member misread said post.

You heard it crying too?

 

[MMC]

Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.

That's hilarious. Thank you for sharing that. Some of the folks get way too serious on here. If you've still got your major limbs after an event, say thank you to some deity and move on. And for heaven's sake, laugh a little bit...

 

[Dftodd]

Back in highschool my grandparents lived across the road from us and up the hill.

Both houses overlooked the horse pasture in front of my grandparents house.

3 mornings in a row, a 1/2hr before I needed to wake up, I would hear a gun shot.

Then the phone would ring and my grandmother would say "woodchuck 1, grandpa 0"

There was a wood chuck that would climb up on a stump near the lower gate. And grandpa was looking to get rid of it, before one of the horses found a hole and broke a leg.

Three days in a row, grandpa missed the groundhog.

Day 4, I set my alarm, went out with my 30-30 onto the front porch. Lined up the wood chuck and sqeazed the trigger, dropping the wood chuck just before grandpa took his shot.

I then went inside and called over and said, the wood chuck is taken care of, I was going back to bed

 

[Jstpssng]

My father had a lifelong war with woodchucks; which got a little tougher when the city expanded it's no shoot zone. After he passed away in 2017 I told my mother "let's not worry about them. You don't have a garden and they really aren't bothering anything.
It's amazing how many there are on the property now. The entrance to one den is under the garden shed; one year there were 3 babies and when I mowed the lawn they would all come out and watch.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

I have to come clean. I was the one I cried about the groundhog.