Found this little guy in my garbage can

I came home one night and this is what I found, one is cute when it's someone else's house.

5? Ain't so cute when it's my house... :eek:

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leghog said:
The Rule of the Three S's --- Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
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Many of us know that, nevertheless RhinoKnives1 did have to spout a 'politically correct' answer. I'm entirely tolerant of raccoons providing they mind their own business and ply a traditional trade like chasing frogs, mice and crayfish and stay the H away from what I'm doing.
Case in point. Province of Ontario had a spring bear hunt for over 100 years and it drew in millions of dollars of revenue from hunters (many of them gung ho American) but the tradition was axed through animal rights groups that figured this was cruel. This was in the late 1990s. Following that bear hunt season coincided only with deer/duck/moose/grouse season and few 'hunter' folks specifically went after bears anymore. (By the way bear meat is pretty darn good and tastes sort of like pork) Bears have been hunted since time immemorial and have learned to fear man and to operate mostly at night (ie when we're unarmed and asleep). This cycle was broken and otherwise vulnerable daytime sows (no longer fearful of being hunted and/or become dead) taught their cubs to forage during daylight. In a very few years next generation bears became a nuisance not only in numbers but by their increased daylight cycle. Farmers and rural landowners with a stake in their livelihood stopped asking gov't for help (which they never got in the first place) and started to deal with it themselves. As you say 'shoot/shovel/shut up' has become a mainstay up this way and gov't to this day claims that cancellation of the spring bear hunt has had very little impact on bears nor ordinary people. Which couldn't be further from the truth!
Raccoons are much the same. This year some unlucky Asian immigrant schmuck in Toronto, defending his garden and garbage cans, went to jail for beating on a raccoon (not quite to death, unfortunately) with a rake while a touchy-feely-all God's-creatures-are-wonderful neighbour was watching. Whatever it is you do make sure there are no witnesses and that in your own conscience you've done humanely best you can. Ex-Lax offerings may not be politically correct but is a very viable alternative to sudden death when it comes to dealing with habituated 'wildlife'.
 
I had an aggressive raccoon a few years ago.... trapped it, drowned
it. Problem solved
 
300Six said:
Many of us know that, nevertheless RhinoKnives1 did have to spout a 'politically correct' answer. I'm entirely tolerant of raccoons providing they mind their own business and ply a traditional trade like chasing frogs, mice and crayfish and stay the H away from what I'm doing.
Case in point. Province of Ontario had a spring bear hunt for over 100 years and it drew in millions of dollars of revenue from hunters (many of them gung ho American) but the tradition was axed through animal rights groups that figured this was cruel. This was in the late 1990s. Following that bear hunt season coincided only with deer/duck/moose/grouse season and few 'hunter' folks specifically went after bears anymore. (By the way bear meat is pretty darn good and tastes sort of like pork) Bears have been hunted since time immemorial and have learned to fear man and to operate mostly at night (ie when we're unarmed and asleep). This cycle was broken and otherwise vulnerable daytime sows (no longer fearful of being hunted and/or become dead) taught their cubs to forage during daylight. In a very few years next generation bears became a nuisance not only in numbers but by their increased daylight cycle. Farmers and rural landowners with a stake in their livelihood stopped asking gov't for help (which they never got in the first place) and started to deal with it themselves. As you say 'shoot/shovel/shut up' has become a mainstay up this way and gov't to this day claims that cancellation of the spring bear hunt has had very little impact on bears nor ordinary people. Which couldn't be further from the truth!
Raccoons are much the same. This year some unlucky Asian immigrant schmuck in Toronto, defending his garden and garbage cans, went to jail for beating on a raccoon (not quite to death, unfortunately) with a rake while a touchy-feely-all God's-creatures-are-wonderful neighbour was watching. Whatever it is you do make sure there are no witnesses and that in your own conscience you've done humanely best you can. Ex-Lax offerings may not be politically correct but is a very viable alternative to sudden death when it comes to dealing with habituated 'wildlife'.
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LOL I got under your skin that easily! LOL.
No PC speak here if you care to read the original post.
I said dispatching "Raccoons" or any pest of an animal humanly was one thing. " That means killing pests quickly"

Torturing them with severe dehydration etc for your twisted pleasure was not. I have killed rats,rabbits, possum, cats and feral dogs that were a pest of a problem..

Do it quickly and humanely was my point. Don't teach your children that it's somehow amusing to torture animals by feeding them ex lax.
Maybe your kids will think it's so funny that they do it to you?

Then we will see who's laughing?
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
We have a troupe or family of them that live here at the beach ! LOL I've hand feed one of them. But it's always a good idea to give the a way out if they don't want any company.
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Why would you hand feed a raccoon? All you are doing is endangering them more as well as potentially endangering some unsuspecting human, perhaps a child, in the future. Not only is it a good idea to give an escape, it's an even better idea not to let them be so comfortable approaching humans, ESPECIALLY to be hand feed. What happens when they come to expect it as they approach some unwary child in the future? Your actions are not only actually part of the problem, your actions exacerbate the problem.
 
leghog said:
Why would you hand feed a raccoon? All you are doing is endangering them more as well as potentially endangering some unsuspecting human, perhaps a child, in the future. Not only is it a good idea to give an escape, it's an even better idea not to let them be so comfortable approaching humans, ESPECIALLY to be hand feed. What happens when they come to expect it as they approach some unwary child in the future? Your actions are not only actually part of the problem, your actions exacerbate the problem.
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That's your opinion.
 
akula83 said:
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So I noticed my garbage was moved but it was still in the up-right position and when I looked in I found him sleeping in there. He wasn't acting aggressive or in distress so I gently laid the can down so he could escape, but he shows no interest in leaving just yet and maybe wait for evening, I will just have to keep some distance.....just thought I'd share.
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I would has put a pellet through his head and left that garden raidin' chicken killin' little pain in the behind right where he was:livid:
Roy
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
leghog said:
Rhinoknives1 said:
We have a troupe or family of them that live here at the beach ! LOL I've hand feed one of them. But it's always a good idea to give the a way out if they don't want any company.
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Why would you hand feed a raccoon? All you are doing is endangering them more as well as potentially endangering some unsuspecting human, perhaps a child, in the future. Not only is it a good idea to give an escape, it's an even better idea not to let them be so comfortable approaching humans, ESPECIALLY to be hand feed. What happens when they come to expect it as they approach some unwary child in the future? Your actions are not only actually part of the problem, your actions exacerbate the problem.
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That's your opinion.
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Oh, it's more than opinion, mine or anyone else's.

http://audubonportland.org/wcc/urban/raccoons

http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/raccoons.html

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Witnesses-recount-raccoon-attack-at-Boyle-Co-fair-261577021.html

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/25/raccoon-attacks-baby/8179881/

http://www.freep.com/article/201407...ry-goes-well-girl-who-lost-ear-raccoon-attack

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...tacks-puppy-in-vancouver-s-west-end-1.2615460

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Raccoon-menacing-families-in-Tigard-neighbors-say-231474581.html
 
I have killed them when being pests and I've had them as pets and with no problems whatsoever.
My cat watched as they ate it's food, so I gave them separate bowls and all was peaceful.
They stayed for several years and disappeared one winter. I miss them.
The only thing i shoot on sight are the opossums, bad snakes and coyote.
My Great Dane even hangs out in the yard with the deer.
Why can't we all just be friends ;)
 
My wife had this guy come in all bandaged up with a coon head.

Apparently the coon had found it's way into his feed drums and he reached in to scoop out some feed, dark, and the coon latched onto him.

Not wanting to have rabies shots unless he really needed them he and the coon fought it out till he killed by strangling it.

However he also had to have surgery on his hand it wore him out so bad.

They tested the head, coon was negative but rabies shots aren't as bad as they used to be the surgery may have been worse.

I always check my feed drums because they do get in there.
 
HuntBomb said:
I have killed them when being pests and I've had them as pets and with no problems whatsoever.
My cat watched as they ate it's food, so I gave them separate bowls and all was peaceful.
They stayed for several years and disappeared one winter. I miss them.
The only thing i shoot on sight are the opossums, bad snakes and coyote.
My Great Dane even hangs out in the yard with the deer.
Why can't we all just be friends ;)
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That's the way I look at it. I have been around animals all my life and as a kid brought home injured birds etc to nurse them back to health.

The one I fed of my local semi domesticated troupe of coons hasn't come into the backyard since then, but I have seen him at the water bowl I leave in the front for local cats, birds and any that need a drink this hot summer.
 
As a kid I found two little baby coons that got dumped out of a dumpster. Mother wasn't to be found. They were soooo small. I needed to bottle feed them. Believe it or not they would follow me in the woods and would scream for attention if one got too far away. Let them go once they grew up but returned to the house for some time. Would come right up to me as adults. All great and wonderful? Well not exactly. As babies they would try to bite anyone who wasn't me if they attempted to touch or pick them up. When adults they would shy way from other people which I guess was a good thing. As a kid I didn't understand the risks for diseases. Did the mother die from rabies? Never even entered my mind. I wouldn't do it again. My parents also raised a coon before I was born so guessing that's why they didn't see a problem with it.

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Before anyone dishes out a holier-than-thou complaint remember I was a kid aka maybe 11 years old. I wouldn't do this again nor recommend it to anyone especially children.
 
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Any raccoon caught around my place is trying to commit suicide.

I've had to repair roofs where they have torn holes in them to get into the attic of my house. After 3x repairs, I had to replace the entire composition shingle on plywood roof with steel to keep them out.

I've had them get into storage buildings by ripping off siding, pulling loose boards, etc and then destroy sacks of animal feed and grain, dog/cat food, seedcorn/milo, etc/

I've had them crawl up in my fruit trees, pull off an unripe peach/plum/pear, take a bite, throw it away and do it again... 40-50x in one night and then come back and do it again the next night.

I've had them devastate watermelon and cantaloupe patches over night.

I've had them get into a chicken house and kill laying hens to get at the eggs.

Warm, fuzzy, cute little creatures my NEOASBM. They are destructive, flea-infested, rabies carrying demons of destruction. If they stay in their natural habitat - the creek bottoms and wood groves, they live. They get caught in/around my buildings/garden/orchard, they're toast. The only thing higher on my priority dispatching list is skunks. Over 89% of all rabies reports in my county last year were rabid skunks. The next highest # was 5% bats, with dogs and raccoons at 3% each.

Aside - why does the BF spell checker like raccoon but not raccoons?
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I've had them crawl up in my fruit trees, pull off an unripe peach/plum/pear, take a bite, throw it away and do it again... 40-50x in one night and then come back and do it again the next night.
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Would tick me off to no end when they'd push over an entire stalk of corn for one bite, then move on to anther stalk for another bite.
 
leghog said:
Would tick me off to no end when they'd push over an entire stalk of corn for one bite, then move on to anther stalk for another bite.
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:) If you grew tastier corn that wouldn't be a problem. :) Kind of like the rattlesnake that doesn't rattle - bred for a hatband. Those buggers were bred or the whole hat.
 
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