Moving a young raccoon

[dodge man]

So the groundhog crying thing, yeah or nay?

It been several years ago I shot a skunk. It must of been a mother because there were some babies that started crying so I shot the babies. I felt a little bad about that but not much.

 

[ponytug]

No, it was the pallets crying...!

 

[5030]

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.

Reminds me of the time when I had a yellow jacket infestation. They got in in a crack between the window frame and the brick (I live in a brick ranch) and there was a pile of them going in and out and being too cheap to hire an exterminator, I came up with a novel idea...

Waited until dark (they cannot see at night so they all stay in their nest, I set a step ladder up next to the window and affixed the nozzle of my shop vac right where they were going in and out and next morning I fired up the sop vac. I had removed the bag and put a couple inches of water and dish soap in the bottom and soon as I started the vac, they started coming out... in droves but the vac overcame them and they went into the vac. Went on all day and come evening I saw no more so I opened the vac and lo and behold, I had thousands of jackets in the bottom all drowned. Emptied the vac out by the creek and called it good. Worked like a charm. They all got sucked out..

As an aside, I have no issue with killing vermin or game animals for that matter. I hunt every year and I enjoy eating wild game, especially game I've shot myself. Freezer always has processed wild game in it be it bear or elk or deer (mule or white tail). Don't matter. I'd rather eat wild game than commercially processed meat any day.

I'm a charter member of PETA... People Eating Tasty Animals...

Besides, up here in Michigan, every white tail that is harvested is one less that winds up on someone's bumper or through their windshield. I'm all about reducing the deer population, especially if they wind up for dinner.

Don't have to be a firearm either. I have a 10 point x bow that works quite well as well.

Summertime is fishing time, fall and winter and early spring is game animal time.

 

[Hay Dude]

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.

A mountain lion?

 

[5030]

Look at the cutters on a ground hog sometime and then decide if you want to play nice... I don't. I drill 'em. I've sent a load of them to the 'promise land' in the past, coons and possoms as well. My 17 don't discriminate, neither does my 22-250.

Skunks are a different story. They aren't aggressive and candidly, I'd love to have one for a house pet (debagged of course). Could you imagine walking down a street with a skunk on a leash....lol

 

[Hay Dude]

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.

I just dug barco-lounger size boulders out of one of my hay fields. Ground hogs like to dig their dens next to them.
While extracting a large boulder, a ground hog came up with it.
It looked a little shocked, but it did NOT cry. lol

 

[MMC]

A mountain lion?

If you've heard both, Yes... A bit more bass with a puma, but a 35# coon sings the same song...

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

 

[Hay Dude]

We got some big ol fat raccoons here, too. Most they ever seem to do here is “hiss”.
Never seen one growl like a mountain lion though.

Some poor boy died from a raccoon attack-rabies in VA

Rabies death from raccoon reported

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ponytug]

We got some big ol fat raccoons here, too. Most they ever seem to do here is “hiss”.
Never seen one growl like a mountain lion though.

Some poor boy died from a raccoon attack-rabies in VA

Rabies death from raccoon reported

www.nbcnews.com

You are a lucky man. I've had more than a few growl and go "ape sh--", and I wasn't doing anything but walking by. And yea, a mountain lion is a fair description in my mind.

All the best, Peter