Moving a young raccoon

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Older lady across the streets feeds everything. We trap and dispatch coons on a weekly basis. Ground and tree rats are just dispatched almost daily. Tree rats get a break when the Oak Trees have acorns. We let them hide the acorns then get rid of the tree rats. Let them do the planting. Got a cat issue now, she is feeding them too.
I have a number of free range cats coming by the place. One black female is a keeper. She works the ditches constantly taking home her catches.
The remaining ones appear to be males that are in the habit of marking MY territory. Good thing it's been cool and raining a lot or the stink would be intolerable.
Going to end up costing me some double aughts.
Coyotes will get rid of the evidence.
 
   / Moving a young raccoon #252  
This time of the year people from town come out and dump unwanted cats on back roads.
Cats are everywhere you look out here every spring. Ten miles from town.

I was at work years ago. A young girl adopted a large mixed breed dog. Over the next week she came to work telling everyone about the dog ripping her furniture to shreds while she was at work. (Rented furniture):ROFLMAO:
Then it tore up here bed. She came back to work on a Monday and told us she took the dog out to the country and let it loose (dumped it). She said some Farmer will take care of it.
I was fuming but at work, so I had to be civil.
I said to her that I live out in the country. I told her dog will go without food for about a week then start killing a farmer's chickens and get shot or join other dumped dogs and create a pack that kills young newborn cattle.
At some point she started crying and I said I'm sorry but that's reality.
She painted a picture in her mind of the dog having a good life on the farm.
My boss later told me that you told her the truth. He said he was pissed off about what she said but he couldn't speak up.
People watch too much TV. Lassie
Years ago a lady up the road had several dogs and at the least two had litters. She moved and left the whole pack. They turned wild and rampaged the area for several months.
I had young kids, all these mixed breed dogs had some pit bull mixed in them.
I started picking them off sitting on my pond leve. Someone called the sheriff on me. He walked up on me and asks me what I was shooting.
I said dogs and told him the situation. Then told him there was a dead dog that I shot about 250 feet over in the weeds. We walked over and looked. The dog had mange and was emaciated. He shook his head and told me to do what you have to do. He left and stopped at a house down the road. So, I knew who complained. That pack of dogs became dangerous. The sheriff seen the pit bull mix in the kill. There wasn't animal control here then, and thirty years later we are still our only animal control.
I get no joy from killing anything.
Not as many predators keeping racoons' and other critter populations in check anymore.
I let a couple Ferrel cats hang around but have to thin them out.
I have a pet cat.

I'm not anti-pit bull but the wild pack had to go.

Some people could read some of the posts on this thread and not understand why animals need to be thinned out. (Blood thirsty killers)
I have concern that some virus will develop in sick overpopulated animals. Rabies on steroids!
 
   / Moving a young raccoon #254  
I have taken in my share of dumped animals but also killed or removed my share. Best you may get from the county is a deputy doing the killing if he/she sees an attack.
I truly dislike putting them down but you do what you have to do. These days my LDG remove them or put them down if they will not stop.

Reality is that most will starve and/or be eaten by local wildlife. Nature is a harsh mistress.
 
   / Moving a young raccoon #255  
Meanwhile, in Maine news...



All that I can say is ***** H ******* *****! What kind of idiot left him in the vehicle without checking on him, long enough for the poor pup to die? I would never trust my dog in a vehicle for that long, because I don't trust them to stay running.

Especially since they now shut off on their own.
 
   / Moving a young raccoon #258  
No excuse for that! What a beautiful caring dog.

That's public safety setting an example.
Every vehical that transports kids or dogs needs some type of motion detector and temperature alarm. That seems to be easy with todays technology.
 
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No excuse for that! What a beautiful caring dog.

That's public safety setting an example.
Every vehical that transports kids or dogs needs some type of motion detector and temperature alarm. That seems to be easy with todays technology.
How about using common sense?

Then, if the key is NOT in the ignition and the vehicle is not running, exactly how is the vehicle to start up due to someones lack of common sense?

This is no different than laws being passed because of peoples stupidity. Gun laws being a prime example.
 
   / Moving a young raccoon #260  
From the article...

"The Department extends its deepest condolences to Baxter's handler and his family, as well as the entire emergency telecommunication team

He has no sympathy from me.
 

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