Moving a young raccoon

[MossRoad]

FAFO.
Just a friendly warning:
I would never suggest approaching a raccoon during the day with the assumption that it’s not rabid, or any time AM/PM for that matter.

I agree. I wouldn't approach any raccoon. Shoo.

 

[masseyrider]

I agree. I wouldn't approach any raccoon. Shoo.

They out number people in some hoods.
Just shoot the little destroyer.

 

[MossRoad]

They out number people in some hoods.
Just shoot the little destroyer.

I'm convinced there are more raccoons than squirrels in our area. We don't have a problem with them at our place, because there's nothing for them to eat. They do visit the swimming pool every night in summer, as evidenced by the little muddy pay prints all around the edge. I only see them on the game camera about once or twice a week, as opposed to neighbors' cats two-three times a night, and woodchucks two-three times an hour.

 

[MossRoad]

This thread begs for a repost of this video. Guy is nuts. Hope he survives. Not doing the critters any favors. Still, it's entertaining and amazing how well they get along, all things considered.

 

[rswyan]

I've warned and posted this link to the Raccoon Roundworm parasite before.

Baylisascaris procyonis

It ain't nothing to mess around with:

About Raccoon Roundworm - Centers For Disease Control

Raccoons are a pestilence ... and a threat to the human species.

Anyone who gives them safe harbor is either just ignorant or a complete moron.

Sigarms ... you should seriously rethink any plans you have been entertaining about "relocating" that little darling.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

The husband of a friend of mine blew her inheritance, failed to pay property taxes on the house she bought, went to prison for theft, and put the friend and her three young sons in a position where they had to move into a trailer on a farm her brother owned. Her eccentric mother lives in another trailer there.

The mother is obnoxious and cruel, but she loves animals. She takes in animals that need to be gassed, and her son, who supports her, has to pay for feed and so on.

Before Hurricane Irma passed by, grandma hired a tree service to cut some rotten oaks that threatened the barn where the animals lived it up, but she told them not to bother the trees hanging over the trailer where her grandsons lived. A big oak fell on it, crushed one corner, and ripped the roof open. Total loss. Fortunately, they were staying at my house.

Anyway, she makes her daughter make salad for coons every day. This is like having syphilis and looking for ways to help the bacteria multiply.

 

[masseyrider]

friends in Toronto live next door to a couple who feed the local Garbage Pandas.
There is so much poop in the backyard their kids can't even play on their swing set.
You can't tell the neighbors a thing.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Coons used to poop on the top step of my pool over and over. I covered the steps with pieces of wood that had the tips of nails sticking up through them. The hope was that they would choose to use someone else's pool because they could no longer sit there.

When mangoes were in season, they would eat them on the steps. That left a nice mess.

 

[Dftodd]

There's no relocating those. Around here they are shoot on sight. No quarter given regardless of size.

Same here. They breed and multiply so fast, and can cause massive destruction in their wake.

A friend shot a domesticated pig that had escaped and had been living in the wild for some time.

That sucker dressed out at 300lbs

He was in the sausage making buisiness for a few weeks non stop

 

[Hay Dude]

Drop it off in Wilmington, DE. Right downtown.