how do you get rid of a raccoon?
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How hard is it to pick up a phone and call animal control?
Some of us prefer to be much more self-sufficient than that. That and everywhere I have lived calling animal control is about a $300 fee.DKG999
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Me, I'm going to war, and my .22 isn't going to be big enough. I had to shoot a rat 4 times with a .22 pellet gun before it died. I'm not taking any chances with a racoon.
Actually, I'd probably open up the door and start pounding on the sides of the shed until he left. Shooting critters with a garden hose nozzle usually works too.My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
How hard is it to pick up a phone and call animal control?
Harder than pulling a trigger
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I have enough gear to protect my neighbors and I in case of anarchy or a zombie attack, but I still wouldn't shoot a animal unless it was harming someone.Harder than pulling a trigger"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have enough gear to protect my neighbors and I in case of anarchy or a zombie attack, but I still wouldn't shoot a animal unless it was harming someone.
Exactly. Killing for fun never made sense to me.
So what happened to the little guy?Michael
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How hard is it to pick up a phone and call animal control?
ok.. you're not listening to me.. animal control won't come a trap it..it's a wild animal. i have to call and have someone set a trap at my expense.. and that is happening on Monday.PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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Around here we go to the zoo and get a jug of Mountain Lion urine. Sprinkle it around your property where youve seen the racoons...they won't come back.
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Frank.. i might have you ship me a gallon of that mountain lion urine. PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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Would you settle for just the mountain lion? That would get rid of the sucker...There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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Exactly. Killing for fun never made sense to me.
I'm not advocating killing for fun. A racoon can actually be quite dangerous. Do not under-estimate the rabies factor. They will attack household pets. They have been known to bite humans. They will take down large garbage cans and spew your trash all over the place looking for food. I don't feel comfortable having a racoon anywhere near my family and pets, there's nothing cute about them...Good music, a good source, and good power can make SDA's sing. Tubes make them dance. -
Shaped Charge to the forehead.
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You need the explosives expert from the Red Green show! Once that shed is about 2 blocks away on someone elses property, problem solved.
Me, I'm on a varmint elimination mission at the farm this weekend. The skunks and possums are overrunning the place. A .17HMR takes care of them nicely.
And before someone takes me to task for killing helpless and cute animals (although if you think a possum is cute you need help), you might consider the cost to a livestock production operation once one of them critters bites a cow and the rabies virus gets introduced into the milk a mama cow gives to her calf. It's expensive and ugly.DKG999
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tell him your ready for a commitment.
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Or just leave a laptop open to "the end of the world" thread out there.
He'll be beating a hasty retreat to the nearest exit."The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
if I get him out of the shed by bait (cat food) and seal up the shed will he always be hanging around even if he can no longer get into the shed?PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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I'm not advocating killing for fun. A racoon can actually be quite dangerous. Do not under-estimate the rabies factor. They will attack household pets. They have been known to bite humans. They will take down large garbage cans and spew your trash all over the place looking for food. I don't feel comfortable having a racoon anywhere near my family and pets, there's nothing cute about them...
I agree, and if you're anyone who eats meat and isn't disgusted by the metal prod they shoot through the head of cattle before it hits your dinner plate I am not sure why some frickin' raccoon is so hard to eliminate.
It's not done for fun, despite the comments, it's done as a necessity. I doubt anyone here is killing poor little helpless animals for fun or sport in this instance. Hell, if my 64 year old mother can pull out a rifle and plink a woodchuck anyone can do it.
Oh, and I wasn't joking about the BBQ Raccoon. I was working at a restaurant when I was 15 and some Small Game Hunters club had a party in the hall there and we cooked the food they wanted for it. (2) Raccoons made up part of the appetizer menu. It was kind of like BBQ cocktail weiners on a toothpick....'cept they were raccoon. It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't need to have it again.
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Demi, now you're just making me hungry. PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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danger boy wrote: »Demi, now you're just making me hungry.
Would you try it? I blamed it on my age....
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danger boy wrote: »Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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i too have had a raccoon problem for the past 2 months at my house. the raccoon has ripped the screen on my porch to get at bird food, broke 3 birds feeders, tried to kill my cats and keeps we awake at night with noise.
i tied the big metal "have a heart trap" but he knows how it works and just reachs in from the side to get the food or digs a hole under the trap to steal the food. he is very smart. the animal people want $400 to trap him. i may be ready to do this. if i had a gun and could shot him i would but he only comes at night and runs away when he hears me.
if you can see him then take him out.
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i hear ya man... i have only seen one.. and that was because I woke his **** up.. lucky ****, sleep all day and party at night.. what a life they have.
they are cute, and fuzzy.. but they are a nuisance. The trapper I called wants $150 to set the trap, then $50 per raccoon. UGH! I'm going to try the ammonia soaked rags and mothballs.. and a helluva lot of noise to scare the holy beJesus out of him.. then send him packing.PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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Set a sub up in the shed, lol."He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was a kid, my dad shot one out of a tree with a 22.
It fell 50 feet to the ground and fought the dog to a stalemate
until the ol' man could get another shot into it. Don't mess with one
if you don't have to.
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A Yamaha AVR, some Klipsch speakers, and Queen CD on repeat ought to convince the racoon he needs to relocate!DKG999
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You forgot the silver cables.A Yamaha AVR, some Klipsch speakers, and Queen CD on repeat ought to convince the racoon he needs to relocate!"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
