[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I trapped a third coon this morning raiding my hen house.

[goat granny]

On the farm I had a coon find a way into the coop, killed about 7, ate one right down to the skeleton. My old farm neighbor never saw anything like that before. We couldn't find out how he got in until we looked under the edge of the roof and one of the 2X4 between the beams was missing. The coop had a false ceiling of asbestos panels to help keep the coop warmer in the winter, and it had a hole chewed in it....that's where we found the one’s he killed and stacked in a pile, I guess he figured on coming back to feast....I have shot them, drown them and the only good coon is a dead one. The 2 guineas were able to avoid him and one was find the other had a macerated leg, I set the leg and within a week the guinea was fine...they are hateful little vicious bastards...

[Beagle8U]

So far this spring I have shot 22 coons in my yard or on my deck. Only one of those was young of the year.

My property is infested with the worthless bastards. There must be hundreds of them back in my woods, one night I shot 4 of them.

They tear up the bird feeders and rip up the lawn digging for grubs. There seems to be no limit to how many there are because every morning you can see what they were into the night before.

I've tried to get someone to hunt or trap them in the fall, but they never show up. All anyone does anymore is deer hunt around here.