Moving a young raccoon

[MossRoad]

FAFO.
Just a friendly warning:
I would never suggest approaching a raccoon during the day with the assumption that it’s not rabid, or any time AM/PM for that matter.

I agree. I wouldn't approach any raccoon. Shoo.

 

[masseyrider]

I agree. I wouldn't approach any raccoon. Shoo.

They out number people in some hoods.
Just shoot the little destroyer.

 

[MossRoad]

They out number people in some hoods.
Just shoot the little destroyer.

I'm convinced there are more raccoons than squirrels in our area. We don't have a problem with them at our place, because there's nothing for them to eat. They do visit the swimming pool every night in summer, as evidenced by the little muddy pay prints all around the edge. I only see them on the game camera about once or twice a week, as opposed to neighbors' cats two-three times a night, and woodchucks two-three times an hour.

 

[MossRoad]

This thread begs for a repost of this video. Guy is nuts. Hope he survives. Not doing the critters any favors. Still, it's entertaining and amazing how well they get along, all things considered.

 

[rswyan]

I've warned and posted this link to the Raccoon Roundworm parasite before.

Baylisascaris procyonis

It ain't nothing to mess around with:

About Raccoon Roundworm - Centers For Disease Control

Raccoons are a pestilence ... and a threat to the human species.

Anyone who gives them safe harbor is either just ignorant or a complete moron.

Sigarms ... you should seriously rethink any plans you have been entertaining about "relocating" that little darling.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

The husband of a friend of mine blew her inheritance, failed to pay property taxes on the house she bought, went to prison for theft, and put the friend and her three young sons in a position where they had to move into a trailer on a farm her brother owned. Her eccentric mother lives in another trailer there.

The mother is obnoxious and cruel, but she loves animals. She takes in animals that need to be gassed, and her son, who supports her, has to pay for feed and so on.

Before Hurricane Irma passed by, grandma hired a tree service to cut some rotten oaks that threatened the barn where the animals lived it up, but she told them not to bother the trees hanging over the trailer where her grandsons lived. A big oak fell on it, crushed one corner, and ripped the roof open. Total loss. Fortunately, they were staying at my house.

Anyway, she makes her daughter make salad for coons every day. This is like having syphilis and looking for ways to help the bacteria multiply.

 

[masseyrider]

friends in Toronto live next door to a couple who feed the local Garbage Pandas.
There is so much poop in the backyard their kids can't even play on their swing set.
You can't tell the neighbors a thing.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Coons used to poop on the top step of my pool over and over. I covered the steps with pieces of wood that had the tips of nails sticking up through them. The hope was that they would choose to use someone else's pool because they could no longer sit there.

When mangoes were in season, they would eat them on the steps. That left a nice mess.

 

[Dftodd]

There's no relocating those. Around here they are shoot on sight. No quarter given regardless of size.

Same here. They breed and multiply so fast, and can cause massive destruction in their wake.

A friend shot a domesticated pig that had escaped and had been living in the wild for some time.

That sucker dressed out at 300lbs

He was in the sausage making buisiness for a few weeks non stop

 

[Hay Dude]

Drop it off in Wilmington, DE. Right downtown.

 

[Sigarms]

I'm getting everyone the last day...

 

[dodge man]

I get up close to raccoons all the time, you know to pick them up with a shovel to throw them in the end loader bucket.

 

[BackRoad]

Shouldn't have read this thread. Bad karma! Haven't seen a coon in 3 years.

Then Sunday night...biggest I've ever seen was on the deck...I went out the front door with my .22 Glock with mounted green dot and spot light.

That coon took off RUNNING and I couldn't keep up with it, much less draw bead.

Next time, think I'll go out the backdoor, sneak into ambush position, then have my wife open the deck door to get him running my way...

It might not fit into a bushel basket, it is H U G E !

 

[WinterDeere]

I skipped a few pages in the middle of the thread... what happened to the coon, Sig?

I tried relocating a groundhog once, and the ******* came back! Right back to the same damn hole, under my fireplace. Apparently that's common, if moved less than 3 miles.

Since I didn't know of a second place I could easily move him, without chance of getting caught, a .22 LR had to be the "final solution".

I still remember the first time I set a trap for a groundhog. At some point my wife said, "Cassie [miniature Pinscher] didn't come in when I called outside for her." Let's just say, I sure am glad it was a "have a heart" type trap.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

My grandmother cooked a coon for my dad and my grandfather. My dad said that by the time he had chewed on a bite for a while, it was as big as a lampshade. He was not a fan.

 

[Jstpssng]

I skipped a few pages in the middle of the thread... what happened to the coon, Sig?

I tried relocating a groundhog once, and the ******* came back! Right back to the same damn hole, under my fireplace. Apparently that's common, if moved less than 3 miles.

Since I didn't know of a second place I could easily move him, without chance of getting caught, a .22 LR had to be the "final solution".

I still remember the first time I set a trap for a groundhog. At some point my wife said, "Cassie [miniature Pinscher] didn't come in when I called outside for her." Let's just say, I sure am glad it was a "have a heart" type trap.

I set a #1 1/2 double longspring for a woodchuck next to sister's house; and caught the neighbor's cat instead. My father put a burlap bag over it's head, released the trap- and it was gone!!! He didn't get a chance to check it for injuries but the way it was moving it had to be OK.

 

[masseyrider]

I remember as a kid my father shot a huge Garbage Panda in the chicken shack. He was eating eggs.
Fortunately he hadn't killed any chickens.
He threw it on the brush pile and burned it the next day.
When he told the Native guy he worked with what had happened the guy was so disappointed.
He said they cooked it down for fat and his kids loved it cooked over an open fire.

 

[WinterDeere]

I remember as a kid my father shot a huge Garbage Panda in the chicken shack. He was eating eggs.
Fortunately he hadn't killed any chickens.
He threw it on the brush pile and burned it the next day.
When he told the Native guy he worked with what had happened the guy was so disappointed.
He said they cooked it down for fat and his kids loved it cooked over an open fire.

Plus... he burned up a perfectly good hat!

I throw all of our dead chickens, ground hogs, and other animals onto our burn pile, with the intent of burning them. But it's never actually come to that, they're always gone by the next day, before I've had a chance to build and light a fire. I've never seen who's carrying them off, but we have Turkey buzzards the size of Volkswagons, so they're my first suspect.

 

[masseyrider]

Plus... he burned up a perfectly good hat!

I throw all of our dead chickens, ground hogs, and other animals onto our burn pile, with the intent of burning them. But it's never actually come to that, they're always gone by the next day, before I've had a chance to build and light a fire. I've never seen who's carrying them off, but we have Turkey buzzards the size of Volkswagons, so they're my first suspect.

At the old farm I had a local chicken farmer bring 150-200 tons of manure several times a year.
Late one summer it was very hot, 90s everyday, and he started trucking.
The manure was full of dead chickens that had succumbed to the heat. I thought this is going to smell double strong.
Wrong.
The coyotes and other scavengers must have been walking around burping and farting they were so stuffed with chicken.
Well... unless the Colonel snuck by at night.
The chickens buried in the pile were totally decomposed by spring when I spread it out.

 

[gstrom99]

I set a conabear (sp?) type trap for a/some critters that insist on getting under the sliding door into my pole barn. I've gotten several - 'coons, possums, groundhogs and a couple feral cats. The cats were collateral damage. I need to remember to set the safety on it, when my house/barn cat goes out. I caught him once, looking through the opening at the trap, and shooed him away just in time. Living "out here" brings conflict management into play almost daily.