Racoons carry Racoon Roundworm. A particularly nasty bugger that can infect animals and people. They estimate that 75% of all racoons carry it but up to 100% have found to be carriers in certain areas.
I used to let my dog run them off but no more.
Posted on 06/04/2011 8:39:31 AM PDT by billorites
They obviously don't know coons there, that's a guarantee they'll return. Probably before you......
The reasonable safe zone is at least 10 miles but there's still no guarantee they won't return.......just kill the damn things.
As for the guy, he deserves what he gets. You don't deliberately injure an animal, no matter what they are. You either kill them or leave them alone, don't leave them to suffer.
Subsonic shells are available for those in urban areas. No need to wake up the neighbors.
It was screaming in pain, its back end was bloody from kidney failure and it just kept trying to vomit...while screaming.
My dad ran in the house and got the .22.
I wish I could forget that.
47 years later, I can still see that gray tomcat laying on a sack of horse corn, writhing and screaming.
Another reason why EVERYBODY needs a gun.
I’ve shot subsonic .22s at the range. They sound identifiable. (Perhaps if I accidentally found an old 2 liter pop bottle filled with fiberglass that jumped onto the muzzle?)
The reporting was absolutely melodramatic, overwrought, and manipulative. Example: Young raccoons are pups, not "babies." The reportettes intentionally used the word "baby" to pull at your heartstrings. They succeeded. Would you see the manipulation more clearly if they had used the word "baby" to describe a calf in an effort to get you to abstain from meat?
There -should- be emotion whenever we kill. The lack of emotion over the death of something is disturbing.
Oh, good lord.
The next time I swap a fly or kill a mouse, I'll remember to throw a funeral for it...
I kinda had to do that when I found a tagged and freshly-killed peahen in the driveway.
Still haven't figured out where that one came from.
There is NO excuse for causing or prolonging it
I recommend you never get a job, (or hobby,) being a dominatrix.
Never seen a coon are coon track in a garden, coons are meat eaters, they are not rabbits. The neighbor that lives close to me would get upset if you messed with her pet wild coons.
I grew up on a farm where all our meat was grown right there.
Butchering day was a somber event.
OTOH, the livestock lived splendid lives for their allotted span and went out of this world happily chowing down on their favorite food.
I doubt that any of them even felt anything; certainly no fear or suffering.
We “backward hicks” have that same reverence.
I have a farm in the mountains and idiots are always dumping their unwanted dogs and raccoons on the road to become a major pestilence for the people, and their livestock, who live there.
PLEASE keep your damn problems to your city slicker self! We don’t need any more stinkin’ ‘coons, cats, dogs or squirrels!!!! If they are a problem for you what makes you think they won’t be a problem for me?
I use my 22-250. Here is Arkansas.
I have to admit that I killed a couple before I decided to simply haul them about 15 miles away, out to Forest service property where they will be fine and not bother anyone else.
My experience has been that they can be very grumpy when you’re trying to release them from the trap, but I’ve never been bitten.
If they at least ate what they killed they would find me more friendly.
Speaking of killers. One of my mama Muscovy ducks hatched 15 eggs, this was her very first clutch. Within 30 minutes of her taking them out for their first walk, a damn crow came down and took one.
Four days later, I had them in a predator proof yard. My chickens had not shown any aggression, so they were sharing the yard. I won’t do that again. In less that 45 minutes, those murdering chickens had killed 11 baby ducks. I was so upset that if I knew for certain which chickens were responsible, I would have feed them to my dog.
To save the last 3 ducklings, I am presently raising them in a wire dog crate in the house. LOL Mama duck was sad, my wife was mad, but it’s not forever... just until they are big enough to fend for themselves. They think I’m dad. ;>)
I live in a place where there are critters galore and lib-idiots who drive like they’re still on the DC Autobahn, even though it’s all treacherous, winding, mountain back roads.
“Mercy killings” are far too common.
Everybody here has at least one gun.
Since I live in the Freak State and can’t carry a gun in a vehicle, folks have had to learn to be merciful with whatever’s handy..a tire iron, a big rock, a Buck knife...whatever’s nearby, quick and sure.
Sometimes I dread coming home on spring nights when the does and fawns are moving around.
People say fawns never make a sound.
Yes, they do and you really don’t want to hear it.
That was never on my to-do list, anyway.
I'll say right here that I hate squirrels...a squirrel went into one of my bluebird boxes and killed the bluebird...I watched him go in....from then on I've wanted them gone....
Saw two dogs tear a fawn apart in the pasture one day. Yep, sounded like a human screaming.
“City slicker”?
LMAO!
You really don’t know your geography, Tex.
We have more than our fair share of dumped animals, _living way out in the boonies, up in the mountains, where nobody will ever see them being dumped_.
Texas “mountains”?
You haven’t ever *seen* mountains until you’ve seen the Appalachians.
Racoons carry Racoon Roundworm. A particularly nasty bugger that can infect animals and people. They estimate that 75% of all racoons carry it but up to 100% have found to be carriers in certain areas.
I used to let my dog run them off but no more.
Sarcastic hyperbole doesn’t become you.
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