How much can raccoons eat?

   / How much can raccoons eat? #52  
If raccoons were as big as bears....


Bruce
 
   / How much can raccoons eat?
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#53  
They are easy to trap but they are hard to keep in the trap. Here is one of mine escaping:
My trap worked twice, 2 years ago. Ever since, they know better. Here's from last night.


That plate inside has chicken nuggets, a rib bone with meat still on, a few handfuls of the chicken feed they seem to love so much, and spaghetti. I can't imagine the willpower it must've taken to walk past it so many times and dig in the dirt for soggy layer pellets.

Maybe in a couple of years more, there won't be anyone left who remembers the double trap tragedy of 2019, so it may work again once or twice. That is assuming they don't pass down oral tradition back in their den or tree or wherever they live.
 
   / How much can raccoons eat? #54  
My bird feeder...although it's not in the picture, there is a squirrel baffle on the pole.

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   / How much can raccoons eat? #55  
My bird feeder poles are 4 inch PVC pipe. Raccoons and squirrels can't get a grip on it.

Bruce
 
   / How much can raccoons eat? #56  
When I was a kid, our dog took on a raccoon. He killed the raccoon but he got torn up a bit doing it.

As to keeping them as pets....I am not much for keeping wild animals as pets.

The only solutions to a coon problem...kill them or trap and release them about 10 miles away.
 
   / How much can raccoons eat? #57  
When I was a kid, our dog took on a raccoon. He killed the raccoon but he got torn up a bit doing it.

As to keeping them as pets....I am not much for keeping wild animals as pets.

The only solutions to a coon problem...kill them or trap and release them about 10 miles away.
Just make sure that the people living ten miles away really want another raccoon or two to contend with. That’s why God made lead.
 

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