Wow! So, you must be, like, an expert or something, right? I mean, if friends actually ask you to help get rid of coons, what more is there to possibly know? You're like, real smart, huh?
Yeah you're right... just raising them and doing soft-release back into the wild for over half-a century (50+ years) hasn't taught me anything about them. I wish I had people asking me to help them with raccoons.
Must be real cool to live in town...
:-|
Don’t try the self-righteous preener with me. I grew up on a small, nearly self-sufficient farm waaaay out in the country, and am well aware of the destruction coons can cause to one’s livelihood. My point about living in town was that now the varmints are becoming urbanized, but still are destructive varmints that most folks can’t cope with. I live in town because that is where the jobs were and can’t wait to sell my house and get back to the country now that I’ve retired.
If you’re on the west coast, it may well be that some of those you’ve “rehabilitated” over those 50+ plus years are now trashing my neighbors’ yards and intimating their pet cats and dogs due to your “help” and meddling! Hand raising a juvenile animal for release into the wild is mostly a futile and stupid idea - makes yoe FEEL good, but is a quick death sentence to the animal, because it isn’t prepared to survive.
So YES, I still think you don’t know squat about wild coons!
JC