Posted on 02/23/2025 1:22:18 PM PST by DallasBiff
i’ve discovered that rattlesnake eggs have a little bite to them...
I'm glad she pointed out the rattler though. Even a baby can kill.
I would have adopted that 3rd possum - cute little guy
Twenty-plus years on the farm, here in Southern Ohio, and I’ve trapped dozens and dozens of trash pandas. They are the most destructive of the pesky wildlife we deal with out here.
They love cat food, so we have to keep it in latched bins with tension straps as locks.
I use large marshmallows stuffed into tuna cans as bait in the traps. We can’t legally relocate them in Ohio, so the dumb ones that trip the traps I have kill. I don’t like to, but a single .22LR round is a lot cheaper than 30-lb bags of cat food.
They got attitude too. I remember years back taking some garbage out to the trashcans of a house we had rented. As I approached there were three or four raccoons combing through the cans. They didn't run but just turned around and looked at me like "What you gonna about it punk".
Funniest/cutest of which is a resident who asked me if I could stop a pesky racoon that just began knocking on his porch door for the last few nights at 9pm. Of course I told him just to ignore it, but I followed up and after a month when the neighbor came home, I found out he had been feeding the coon for years every night at 9. The coon learned to knock when he arrived, I suppose.
Anyway, with his primary snack bar closed, Rocky figured he'd try the next house.
If they are not guilty of something, why do they were masks to work
Yes. Nasty, disease carrying rodents (essentially)
Tips><<< i’ve got a few of those. I have a box of crosman plastic shielded pellets that drill thru a lot of stuff. 16.7 gr in .22.
I catch the pests in live traps and transport them >>> i Think the state game people don’t like doing that in PA.
We went to a relative’s house one night many moons ago to see if she was home. Me and the three kids. We had just been by McDonald’s. I guess she had a whole family of raccoons that lived by her house. They liked to raid her garbage. Anyway they approached us. I don’t think we were scared at that point. We threw them the last chicken nugget that one of my kids had. That just pissed them off. I guess that we only gave them one nugget. They literally chased us to my van.
Yes. T.B.,that’s the only choice I need to make.
I despise raccoons. I’ve lost many chickens and ducks to them over the years, as my fowl friends have suffered through, also. Being cute is just a slap in the face, it causes people to be ridiculously sympathetic to them.
Raccoon’s are the #1 carrier of Rabies in south and coastal Alabama. Had to have shots because one scratched me as it was jumping out of a dumpster.
Yep, they’re cool critters.
I would go up on the third floor and open the door to the attic, which resembled Dracula's Castle, and I would swear that Freddy Kruger was coming around the corner towards me with his finger knives scraping the wall.
Within about three weeks we had that coon trapped, and when my young assistant came down the stairs with the cage my first thought was ... "She looks sweet, maybe I should keep her!".
However, she was promptly taken to a state park some 60 miles away and released.
Now I've just got to deal with the new coon in my shed, but we've declared truce until Springtime!
As far as those spiders go, I just released a couple of local highschool-aged boys with spray bottles of white vinegar and instructions to spray anything that looked "spidery" in the basement and the attic. Then I commissioned a pest company to spray for ants every three months (ants are apparently a preferred food for spiders). No more spiders!
bttt
My wife knew a woman from work, about 45 years ago. The memorable parts of the story:
1) She had a pet raccoon.
2) Her nose was missing (she wore a cover like the villain in “Cat Ballou” ... exceept not made of solid silver).
3) Items 1 and 2 were connected.
4) Don’t refill or relocate the dish while your coon is dining.
We raised 3 baby coons one summer. But generally they are a pain in the ass and should be shot.
Hey, big time distemper issue here in NC. B careful
Sure you coon experts out there will correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t they one of the only animals (besides humans) that kill for sport and not only for survival. For example ripping an chicken’s head off but not eating
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