Coons

Greetings: Munk

No sir. Mary Ann was not at the ranch on that particular trip and she never did hear the truth of the matter because we all thought it best to not sadden her with such a heartbreaking story. Mary Ann was a very sweet and gentle lady and none of us wanted to sadden her in any way. So, only us seven men ever knew the truth of that particular incident.
J. W.
 
munk said:
Is that a Coon Stevens song? >>> Norm

It is indeed. I used to like Coon Steven's music a lot, but he joined a dangerous offshoot of a normally main stream religion and now, like all Coons, thinks only of harming us, destroying property, and eating our trash.



munk
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Total Quality Munk!!! Best post yet!!!! Got me laughin on that one!!

Now I think I'll go put on headphones and listen to "Dark Side of the Coon"
 
Spectre, gotta be careful around those squirrels ~ they're crazy for nuts! :foot: Thank God it was just a toe!

Here is a for you munk. It has some some suggestions for stopping coons.

All of you should do a search on raccoon roundworms. It will make you keep the bandits out of your yard for sure.

Young coon does taste good, just make sure that it is well cooked since they have all sorts of creepy crawlers in them. I have never had the guts to eat a possum. It's hot where I live and they are always covered with ticks and fleas.

stevo
 
"Almost every raccoon has round worms and the eggs are deposited in the droppings.* When you move dry droppings the round worm eggs, which are lighter than air, float up into the air.* Now here you are breathing that air and possible the eggs.** Round worms in humans can be a major problem, so if you must work around raccoon droppings, wear a good dust mask or respirator. "

That does it. Shoot 'em with tracers, so as to light their greasy diseased carcasses on fire and save you a step.

I'd take a Zombie attack any day over breathing round worm spores.


Ad Astra
 
I think I'd hire a few ninjas to deal with the coon problem. They're cheap and they work well at night, plus they'll let you cut the coons' head off with a sword when they force it to commit seppuku for shaming itself in your garbage.
 
When I pick up the trash every morning the Coon has scattered all over my yard I wondered if I was being exposed to some bad disease. I hope roundworms are not in Coon saliva, as many of the bags are bitten and torn.

The deeper we go into this thread, the heavier the ordinance.

munk
 
Munk,
Judicious application of small arms fire may win some of the battles, but your adversary has numerical superiority, and you are, by the way, surrounded. About all my kin who live way out in the country keep one or two big old "yard dogs". No problems with "night critters", either four legged or two legged. ;)

Sarge
 
When Bart moved out of the mountains he left his Coon dogs to the new 20 year old Minister. The Minister got home sick and went back to Florida for a week. When he returned, those wondeful Cougar and coon hunting dogs were stolen. This minister left about a half year later.

Until recently we had no Coon at my house. They found us. I'm up against a steep mountain and off the normal path for scavengers. It's probably true that now they know my house I'm doomed.


munk
 
Munk,

That is the nature of coons. They are foul creatures. I vote for killing them.

Possoms are worse though. They look like zombies, play dead and emit foul smells.
 
Possums are Zombies.
Look into their eyes by flashlight at night. They don't belong on this earth next to Mammals.


munk
 
Living in suburbia, I like both possums and coons. If I had a house in a more rural area, I'd be shooting them as well. Right now it's just the occasional squirrel. I'm letting their population rebound, when I first got my RWS Diana air rifle, I culled them back quite a bit...
I'm wondering how well one of the .45 cal RWS one-pumpers would do against a possum skull...
 
I went into the barn to my milking room one morning, which is an old tobacco stripping room. The guard dogs feeder is in there too. I look and all the milking staunchions are knocked over and the room is wrecked and covered with blood.

Apparently a coon was eating out of their dog feeder and they took it out. Well they were a few months past due on their shots, so here's Ms. Hollowdweller (who works for the Health Dept) out there before work cutting the dead coons head off with a machete to take it into the lab. (it ended up being negative for rabies)
 
OK, OK, I am nuts. I like possums and I don't like coons. I guess it is because I have had possum pets and I liked the. Raised from babies, they are like gentle, silent cats. Not that affectionate, but neat anyway. We have raised maybe 25 of them and was only bitten once and that one mistook Anne's finger for the chicken wing Anne was holding. Did not even break the skin, but surprised her.

They can't get rabies because their body temperature is so low that the rabies virus can't live in them.

Now coons are a different story. They WILL bite you, even if you carefully raise them from babies. IF you feed them in your yard, they WILL find a way into your home and larder. They WILL! Possums won't. I guess that possums are not that smart.

Possums will "gape" and hiss, but that is all they have. When they "play possum" they actually pass out from fright.

Dogs are better.
 
I thought I was only one that liked possums:D
We raised several litters (or whatever a brood of possums is called) when I was a kid. Messy critters, but as Bill said, gentle. We had problems with them wasting at first. My mother came up the good the idea to feed them blood and bone meal. Jeeze O Pete, those things turned into monsters. The biggest, strongest possums I have ever seen. They were cute. When something would scare them they'd come sprinting in a lumbering run for you to protect them. When they're very small they like to root and cling to your hair. Pretty neat.
The one cool thing about raising a Raccoon is that they follow you where you go. I used to take ours for long walks to the creek to get him used to where he was going to be livng one day. He'd climb up a tree and get stuck and cry. i'd have to shimmy up and bring him down. We'd stretch out in a lawn chair in the shade with the summer breeze rolling in. He'd curl up next to me, and we'd snooze the afternoon away.
I'm not saying that animals should be handled as pets. These were not pets. They were always forced to go their own way once instinct started to kick in. Actually, they would come back from time to time. First out of fear, then they would wander back and look kind of confused. Nature had begun to wipe their memory of us. Finally, they stopped all together. Only nervous glowing eyes could be seen peering from the blackness, unsure if a safe handout was available. we rarely saw them again after that.
I understand that these few animals were endeared to our hearts, and many times under different circumstances these critters would be pests needing to be shot as to not ransack our homes or spread disease to other pets and people alike. However, raising these animals infused me with a compassion for them. The law of the jungle still stands, but I don't try to swerve and hit them with my car. Meanness is a totally human invention. I can appreciate them in the wild. I can chuckle at just how clever they can be. I can see them as real creatures just trying to get along like the rest of God's creations. If they can stay out of my trashcan, then they'll stay out of my gunsights.

Jake
 
Svashtar said:
Out here in Monterey the coons are so bad from the idiot bambiists feeding them constantly, and no natural predators, that they have bred like crazy. There was a big to do about it because they crap in piles on the lawns, and a little baby got really sick a couple of years ago from eating the pellets that had some kind of parasite in them or something.

Norm
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I've never understood why someone feels the need to feed an animal that fends as well for itself as a raccoon. It kind of reminds me of the people that think it's cruel to allow there to be stray cats and that it's kinder that cats should be gathered up sterilized and then euthenized a few weeks later (back off cat haters :) ).

Some animals do quite well on their own. It's a kind of arrogance bred into those who know very little about wildlife in general that breeds this we have to feed every animal that passes by. Given enough space, most things will equal out on their own. Even dogs will eventually start packing up and hunting things (which can be kind of funny when you live just outside the suburbs and you see a pack consisting of a dachsund, a benji-style mutt and a poodle led by a german shepherd - and they manage to kill a deer). A couple bases in Texas had problems with wild dogs roaming around.

As for the baby eating raccoon droppings, if he's young enough to not know better, the parents need to stop paying attention to Oprah and Regis and watch their kid, or the if the kid is old enough to know better, it's just natural selection (or even part of an intelligent design) weeding the kid out of the gene pool.
 
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