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Raccoon invasion. Morality question.

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Coon.  And poo.


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  • nolaegghead
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    Hungry Joe said:

    I would show your neighbors the coon in the trap as you load it into your vehicle and take it somewhere else and shoot it. If you let the thing loose within a mile of your home it is likely to come back.  

    I just found this and they mention 5 miles, though in an urban setting I'm sure the thing would find something to keep him happy before he made it back to your place. 


    http://www.raccoonatticguide.com/relocating.html 






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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Unless the coon swims across the Industrial Canal or takes an insanely long and tall bridge, he ain't coming back.
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  • cazzy
    cazzy Posts: 9,136
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    Poor lil guy, he's going to miss his kin folk.
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    Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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  • Fred19Flintstone
    Fred19Flintstone Posts: 8,168
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    I would have Bedazzled his ear to see if he comes back.  Plus it will freak out the next guy who traps him.  "Where in the world did that coon get an earing?"
    Flint, Michigan
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  • thetrim
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    Unfortunately for you, raccoons are like Jihadies. Large in number and persistence. They outnumber your bullets and there is always one more ready to step up and take the last ones place. You need a mindset change with your own cats to keep them inside once the chaos starts.
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  • Bayarad
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    The fluffernutter bait must've worked! Well Done!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Yep, marshmallows work!
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  • NPHuskerFL
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    Raccoon "I'll be back". >:) image
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  • Supercilious_In_5280
    Supercilious_In_5280 Posts: 149
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    This thread is awesome.
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  • berndcrisp
    berndcrisp Posts: 1,166
    edited June 2014
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    One down 3452 to go. Maybe post should be re-titled 'mortality'
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  • BugCollector
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    That isn't a mouse.
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  • tkleager
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    Goodbye ol' friend!

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  • NPHuskerFL
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    Meanwhile @nolaegghead‌ 's cats have decided. image
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  • Angus1978
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    Well....this thread helped me kill the last hour or so at work...thanks guys!  :)>-
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  • nolaegghead
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    You're welcome, Col Angus, Sir.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    I'm having a hard time understanding what good is accomplished by relocating this worthless creature. Aside from placating neighbors. Even if he doesn't find his way back to Nola's house, he will find his way into someone's home. And this thread will pop up on some other forum. Though I'm sure it won't be as entertaining!  :)

    I think it would also be interesting to learn what kinds of critters are commonly found where all y'all live. My house ia on the outskirts of a small bedroom community right next to farmland. In other words, I'm in a "town", but I'm only 1/4 mile from miles and miles of farms. 

    I never see ANYTHING! The occasional rabbit, a few squirrels and that's it. Oh, I saw a fox once. ONCE, in over 30 years! No coons, no possum, no bears, skunks... just nuthin'. Saw a garter snake a couple of times come to think of it. And there are a couple of chipmunks living in the stone wall in my back yard.

    And I don't have mosquitos the size of an ultralight either!

    Y'all need to move north! 
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    Michael 
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  • nolaegghead
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    Michael - We have possums, 'coons (obviously), squirrels, nutria and birds...(egrets, pelican, flying rats, ducks, geese and most of the usual song birds).

    We've had raccoons in the neighborhood since the inception of the neighborhood back in 1719 (so I hear), and I've lived here in this very neighborhood for 20 years and have had a cat door the entire time without this problem. 

    Apparently a small group of them learned to (and were brazen enough) to forage in houses via pet door.  These raccoons are a minority, and it's these that I'm trapping.  The problem should go away, I doubt it's information that's genetically spread to all the raccoons the the neighborhood, rather it's likely learned by a pack of them.  Just like you get a problem bear now and then, they relocate the bear to a less populated area and it's usually problem solved.


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  • Botch
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    Carolina Q said:
    I think it would also be interesting to learn what kinds of critters are commonly found where all y'all live. 
     
    I live on the edge of a bedroom community, and the land beyond my backyard slopes down to the Ogden River, and is all covered with trees.  I have deer walk past my yard, sometimes into my yard, most nights.  Magpies everywhere, other birds (I hear eagles flying overhead quite often), can watch the bats eating insects every night as the sun goes down, have a covey of California Quail that come stomping through quite often (this year's hatch was huge, I counted over 25 birds!), watched a falcon nail one of those quail in my backyard (got a (poor) photograph of him)!  Best of all, almost no mosquitoes, this is a huge benefit after living in eastern ND/northern MN for three years!   
     
    Haven't seen a coon yet.  
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  • henapple
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    @nolaegghead‌. ..you only trap the minority raccoons. ... Racist.
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  • nolaegghead
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    Racist?! That would make me some ethnicity of raccoon!
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  • NPHuskerFL
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    "The other Raccoons escaped". Well they escaped the cage >:) image
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  • JRWhitee
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    Never had Gator tail on the Egg.

                                                                
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  • nolaegghead
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    Hahah
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  • SaltySam
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    This thread has more comments than Travis's brisket thread. Way more. And I've read every single one.

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  • llrickman
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    Some of the best wild game BBQ I've had was raccoon. Was at annual wild game feast I went to with my dad at Ozark shooters in Ozark mo
    The guy cleaned em, boiled the hell out of them dumped the water and boiled em again till the meat fell off the bone then threw it all in a crock pot with BBQ sauce for several hours. It was damn tasty
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  • NPHuskerFL
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    SaltySam said:

    This thread has more comments than Travis's brisket thread. Way more. And I've read every single one.

    I'm frightened to know how long that took to read all the comments. Better yet, the first part of the thread could've easily been called "Quest To Enter The 10K Club" by @nolaegghead‌. Now it has evolved a little. :-)
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  • buzd504
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    I live across the river from @nolaegghead, and right near city park.  I had a possum run through the backyard while I was egging on Saturday evening (my neighbor has already relocated a litter).  We see raccoons regularly (though they usually stay in the park), and I've heard of wild boars running through the golf courses that were reclaimed by Katrina.  The park has a few gators too, I think.


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  • nolaegghead
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    buzd504 said:

    I live across the river from @nolaegghead, and right near city park.  I had a possum run through the backyard while I was egging on Saturday evening (my neighbor has already relocated a litter).  We see raccoons regularly (though they usually stay in the park), and I've heard of wild boars running through the golf courses that were reclaimed by Katrina.  The park has a few gators too, I think.


    I've seen gators in the park.  They help control the small yappy dog population ;)

    I've water skied through the swamp and wiped out in a sea of lily pads and gators.  They were as scared of me as I was of them. 
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