Posted on 06/04/2011 8:39:31 AM PDT by billorites
And then there's me.
Dos and don’ts of removing pesky raccoons
1. .22
2. baseball bat
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In a sane and what was once normal, now exceptional jurisdiction, yes. In places like Austin, or any other place under the sway of feral Greens or similar pest infestations:
3. Haveaheart traps and a looooong drive to the country.
Put paper down in your trunk first. Don’t be pubic about it as it is probably a crime in your area.
I have a Gamo with a scope. Quiet and effective.
My favorite Muscovy duck is Elvis. I can yell out a window and he will fly 30’ in the air for the 50 yards from the pond. Then on command, he will catch and/or jump up for his treat.
My favorite Toulouse Goose is Fred, named after my old boss/partner. He talks to me all day. We yell back and forth all the time.
My neighbor tells me that the screaming geese don’t bother him, but my yelling wears on his nerves. I warn him that I might start raising pigs, right inside my property line, so that on a hot day with a slight breeze, he could enjoy them from his deck. LOL He’s a lib, so he believes that I might actually do it.... I’m a jerk, so I might. ;>)
“Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.”
Sounds like responsible recycling to me!
:)
I think Yardstick was being sarcastic.
If a coyote were attacking one of my dogs [the 100 pound Dobe, not bloody likely but the 30 lb Portuguese Podengo Medio, possibly] I’d hate doing it but I would kill it with extreme prejudice.
I would not, however, torture it.
That's racist.
“a can of cat food and a few marshmallows did the trick.”
Interesting bait choice. An old country vet advised me to use molasses and peanut butter, which also worked a treat with coons and possums. The one time I used cat food I got a cat.
You’re back!
Yay!!!!!!
Iagree, the Prestome remedy works every time.Where I live there is no law against it. I could stay up all night and shoot them, but I need my sleep.
And Just one or two hae two die, the rest are smart enough to stay away for the season. But they forget by the next spring, and it has to be done yet again.
I have no reluctance about protecting my garden, or my property, unlike many here, who believe animal pain is human pain. It is not. These animals would eat you in a heart beat if you were laying helpless on the ground at night, no second thoughts of any pain you would have. I have to laugh at people on here who do not understand that
at all. Its actually quite laughable. We humans are nothing but dinner to them, if we were on the ground helpless.You could scream out loud for hours if a mess of racoons ate you alive, would not slow them down one iota.
Perfect. LOL
(Unless yer a racoon.)
LOL... I also trapped a cat once.
They love marshmallows and the cat food was handy.
OMG...are you my dad?!?
He threatened our lib neighbor with a pig farm plopped right next to his grandly manicured backyard/gazebo/in-ground swimming pool property line because of my Toulouse geese squawking too...LOL
[Bob T Gander, gentle, diligent Lucy and Gertrude, the slutty welfare queen]
I forgot.... I once trapped one of my own chickens... she was so mad!
We do give our dogs a heartworm pill though I can’t remember the brand off hand. We get it from the vet.
The feces in the soil bit concerns me not only for the dogs but if the dogs track it in the house. For some reason my yard has become a sort racoon Wilderness Trail with my yard as a refreshment point. They drink my pool water, pull screen mesh away from its frame to get onto my porch where the cat food sits and they even eat the damn cat feces in the litterbox.
And don’t even ask about the squirrels eating my oranges. Although that is one of the funniest things in the world to see; a squirrel running along a fence with an orange bigger than he is trapped in his mouth :)
That's my hunch too. It fits the pattern of these animal-rights kooks.
“The one time I used cat food I got a cat.”
That’s sounds logical...:)
Try junk food like Twinkies or somesuch thing.
Smart animals like cats won’t want them.
LOL
“Take them several miles away and release them. One Killometer limit? How will the authorities know where you caught an animal They don’t come with a tracking devise!”
If you drop them off less then 3-5 miles they will come back as often as not. I drove mine out 17 miles from the city of Austin to a creek and forest area we came to call “Possum Drop, Texas”. 19 possums, three coons. The last coon was a big, wily, angry old boar that was nearly the size of a sheep. For some treason catching him seemed to end the problem with all of them. Maybe he was just the smartest and the last to go. Man, he stank.
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