Some 35 years ago, when I went to work at 4:30 am, I came face to face with a 40 lb raccoon, when trying to get to my car. We had a stare down, the raccoon scurried away, and I went on my way
Some 35 years ago, when I went to work at 4:30 am, I came face to face with a 40 lb raccoon, when trying to get to my car. We had a stare down, the raccoon scurried away, and I went on my way
they also seem to have a pretty good dental plan
And they are carriers of rabies.
After Biden’s pre-election nuclear war all humans will be gone and raccoons will dominate the planet.
Be nice to them.
In central Florida I love in black bear zone. One early evening, I entered the house, and as I closed the door, saw I’d been followed.
Mistaking it for a bear, as it was the largest raccoon I’d ever seen!
I have “relocated” many raccoons out of my yard.
Presently, many urban yards are raccoon habit. Coons have adapted to the human habitat
It is a toss up over whether the groundhog or the raccoon is number one with a bullet around here.
Before resorting to soylent green, a recipe at the link for the coon hunter in your life.
This spells trouble for quail, turkey, and other ground-nesting birds. In order to keep predator numbers down around our farm, Potroast, our youngest, runs a trapline in December and January each year. While fur prices won’t make you rich, or even pay for the fuel you use checking your traps, keeping predator numbers down helps out the other game around our hunting areas. For every coon he catches, another quail chick might hatch. For every coyote, a couple more fawns may make it.
The finished texture is similar to pulled pork. Shred the leftovers for a tasty sandwich the next day.
Another upside is a full freezer. Grilled raccoon is excellent! With a flavor and texture very reminiscent of pulled pork, I’d rate it right up there with other top wild game table fare. For grilling, we prefer a young raccoon, around 3/4 of the way to full grown, around 5 to 7 pounds live weight.]
There is either a coon or a skunk tearing up my front lawn at night. From what I’ve read, I suspect its a coon.
Maybe saddest of all is they ain’t worth nothin’ here in Kansas. I can remember when a good coon pelt would be $25 dollars.
http://www.kanoklafurco.com/2012/04/prices-2012-2013.html
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.
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 had a family of raccoons coming through my bedroom window screen.
They are very destructive pests.
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.