Be carefull cat owners. Dumb thing I did.

[ruffdog]

It is not good running a 'coon cat-house near humans and your pets. It is best locking up the food that draws them too.

Raccoons and public health | The Humane Society of the United States

 

[ruffdog]

Not all sick 'coons are rabid either. They could have distemper....another reason to keep them away from people/pets.

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/health_program/distemper/distemper.pdf

 

[radios1]

It is not good running a 'coon cat-house near humans and your pets. It is best locking up the food that draws them too.

Raccoons and public health | The Humane Society of the United States

I don't know why, but some people like that:shocked: maybe it's the thrill of it, or they like to support their local vet?..

 

[oosik]

It's been more than fifteen years since I've had a coon or skunk around the yard. Same amount of time since I quit burning my garbage.

One of the advantages of being so very far out in the boondocks - I can discharge any of my firearms. Inside the house, outside the house. I doubt my nearest neighbor at four and a half miles distance can even hear me. And, for sure, I'm breaking no laws by discharging a firearm.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I don't live in the boon docks but do live in the country. My neighbor across the farm has a gun range. Shooting a firearm around here is not an issue.

 

[Looking4new]

Same here, I live in the country. Every time I hear a firearm discharged I just figure someone has finally 'had it' with their wife.
I haven't seen any skunks or coons here since I stopped raising chickens. But we do have a fisher that comes calling on a regular basis. I guess over the years he/she has gotten about ten cats of ours.

 

[oosik]

I just might have a weasel living around here. As I remember, I've seen this weasel, a Black Tip Weasel, three times. At first I just though - another Pine Squirrel. However, watching it closely - it moves all differently and it has a black tip at the end of a long tail. It moves in a "sneaky" manner. Squirrels just hop/run around.

 

[radios1]

Same here, I live in the country. Every time I hear a firearm discharged I just figure someone has finally 'had it' with their wife.
I haven't seen any skunks or coons here since I stopped raising chickens. But we do have a fisher that comes calling on a regular basis. I guess over the years he/she has gotten about ten cats of ours.

the trick to keeping your cats alive is keep them in the house!..

 

[John White]

Update on coon: Mon. I called the local county health again telling them I had caught the coon. Here is your Govt. at work. They said I would have to kill it and cut off the head. I told them I wasn't crazy about cutting the head off. They said stop by the County dog warden and he would do it. I stopped by and seen him and acted he would rather cut my head off and not the coons. He said he would not do it. Told me to call the Ohio wildlife officer. I finally got ahold of them and explained the situation. They said they would not do it. They referred me to the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture. They said they would not do it. I finally climbed up the chain of command and got ahold of the man who does the rabies testing. I explained the situation again and said it was my County health dept. responsible for killing it and cutting head off and said he would call them. I asked when was the last time he had tested a rabid coon from our county. He said never, and said they had a report of a few in Eastern Ohio county and one in Cleve. metro park. He called my health dept again and Tues night they gave me the name of a vet that would put it to sleep and detach the head. I called them and they said no way would they do it. So after getting the runaround I finally had to do it myself. No easy chore cutting a coons hear off. Just like cutting on a rubber tire. Took head to health dept Wed. and they sent it in and I got a call a couple hours ago saying it was negative for rabies. I had met with my doctor again this Tues. and he said I really took a chance, said I rolled the dice and come up a winner. I just took all the facts I had and made a decision. It could have went the other way. My wife was under a lot of stress and couldn't understand why I did it. If I had known from the beginning that they had never tested a coon with rabies from our county right away it wouldn't have led to all this. Thanks for all who posted and were concerned. "Wiley Coyote lives another day".

 

[two_bit_score]

Glad it worked out for you John White!

I hope it REALLY was the SAME 'COON.


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