Posted on 06/04/2024 10:30:10 AM PDT by DallasBiff
On Twitter the other day, I ran across a story about a Philadelphia woman who caught a raccoon lounging in her hammock. I once had a similar encounter with a mischievous band of raccoons at my California home.
Late one night, I awoke to creaking and squeaking sounds in the backyard. I turned on the porch light to discover a family of raccoons (aka a nursery or gaze) having a grand old time on my son’s playground set.
On top of seemingly enjoying swinging, we know that raccoons can also be curious, often rummaging through trash bins looking for dinner.
Did you also know raccoons are highly intelligent and dexterous? They can break into unlocked homes by turning doorknobs or flipping a latch on a dog door. And once in the kitchen, raccoons have been known to unscrew the lid from a peanut butter jar and other food containers!
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At my daughters home in Clearwater, she had ordered dog food which had been left at her front door. When she came home, all three bags had been dragged across the street and emptied. My daughter learned not to order any kind of food items, for dog consumption or otherwise. My daughter now has four bid dogs (including 3 German shepherds) and the racoon problem has disappeared, although they are still in the neighborhood. But, the deadliest of the dogs is a 50 lb. yellow dog with blue eyes; nothing gets into the backyard that survives her view.
Little triangular holes? Skunk.
Trash-panda (coon) aren’t much into digging.
When I lived on the farm, I dispatched every coon I could.
LOL,I guess when they go dumpster diving they avoid the sweets
Using a .22 rifle, from boy scout days, helped remind coons that my back yard was mine.
My buddy had them eating his Koi out of his pond, so he started shooting them this way. The cops came, he showed them the rifle and the round he was using, they told him there was no problem.
Use a shotshell. There is no danger of downrange scatter. Coons get close enough to hit with a stick. I just took his means, and took them out of my 1/2 back yard.
If you allow one to drink water or eat dog or cat food, they will keep coming. Like Bidens border, it will never end.
They’re allergic to pb.
[... I love in black bear zone...]
As long as the Misses is OK with it. To each their own.
Here in the vast tundra of NE Georgia, we have coons, skunks, and armadillos. I put out grub control and other products, but they keep coming back.
Skunks dig for grubs, so that’s a possibility.
I had a family of raccoons coming through my bedroom window screen.
They are very destructive pests.
“its a coon”
I don’t think you are supposed to say that anymore.
[I don’t think you are supposed to say that anymore.]
Put out a nice flat pan a mixture of Coke or Pepsi with a dash of sugar and a picker-upper of warfarin.
I have a large front porch where we have coffee in the morning and rattle on with family or friends in the evening. Last week I put together a bag of garden goodies for my neighbor but when he went home he forgot to take the bag with him. I didn’t know that until the next morning when the porch looked like there was a massacre from tomato parts and juice everywhere. They ate all the blackberries, but didn’t touch the cucumbers.
I had one raiding my birdcake feeders (2) every night. I spent $39 for an outdoor cam (Amazon) and caught the raccoon “red-handed” (because I had put Cayenne pepper on the birdcake). I put spikes on the poles, and tried the cayenne pepper, but nothing worked. The local pest control folks wanted a mere $1000 to trap and take it away (with no guarantee!). I spent another $49 on Amazon and got a “coon-sized” Hav-A-Heart like trap. Caught the raccoon the second night (using birdcake since he seemed to like it so well). He and I took a very nice ride out into the countryside. I bet he likes his new home better than MY old one! Now the birds are enjoying the birdcake.
I had this old beater I used to commute in it was a Honda Civic DX, handled like a go-kart anyway... I did some head work on it and finished up and there’s a 20 mile Loop that I’ll take to test out cars after I get done wrenching... so I get down the back stretch of this Loop and this raccoon was standing up on his hind legs in the middle of the road and appeared kind of drunk and sweaty looking, needless to say I took it out with a slight swerve to left before it reached the yard that it was heading towards.
Rodents.
“No reason why raccoons can’t be domesticated. Who wants to?”
My mother raised one from a pup. Me and Dad couldn’t get near it but it sure loved Mom.
In South Texas, the prime suspect for lawn damage is the Armadillo. They can smell/hear/Spidey Sense the grubs in your lawn
Good advice, thanks
San Rafael, Ca. or thereabouts there is a Raccoon Ct. for a good reason.
One guy would trap them and then shoot them with a .22. Put them in the garbage. Probably illegal on both counts. He killed 39 of them.
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