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OT: Raccoon relocation program?

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Cold and rainy here so I'm goofing off on the old computer. I was posting to a chicken question which got me remembering something that happened several years back. I had a massive spike in raccoon (L. Procyon lotor -Latin for the wandering beast/monster). Normally I might have to shoot two or three in a given year, some times none at all, but this particular year I trapped and or shot over forty of the blighters! FORTY! with a 4 and a 0! Holy smokes what the heck is going on I thought to myself. The next year it was twenty! Well it turns out the mostly wooded property across the road was sold to a new owner whom lived in town, when ever he or one of his pals had a raccoon problem they would live trap them and relocate them to the country, or more accurately my farm. Scheesh! So I thought I'd ask if any body has any opinions or similar stories? Well rain or no rain I got chores to do, will check back later. JD
 
I have a raccoon relocation policy. Every year I live trap several around my grain bins. I have found the bait that works for me is dry shelled corn. The raccoons are then sent on to their maker, out at the woods.
 
That sounds normal for some today, pass their problems on to someone else. People from the city do that to me quite often. Drop off
their unwanted dog or cats. Had one drop off their pet raccoon.
 
Went on a 68 mile road trip yesterday. Sure were a bunch of them sleeping along the roadsides. Some even in the traffic lanes.
Muskrats too. Surprised some enterprising young fellow hasn't been collecting them for their pelts.
 
I've never had anyone relocate any to near me that I know of. However last year my neighbor had a run on them digging in his septic mound. He would trap them and call me to relocate them. So I'd go get them, take em out behind the barn and relocate them to heaven. He gave me $10 per coon. Made some $ for a while there.
 
It would have been a heck of a chore, but you could have live trapped them and hauled them right back to his house. Let him see you dropping them off after about 40 + 10.

Gene
 
I had a similar problem. Their were some women living near a place I managed who were part of an opossum rescue.
They were releasing these things at their home. My place was overrun by them. For a while I was killing an opossum a
day. Their hand told me about one of them finding a dead opossum in the road. She searched its pouch and found a
baby in it. She put it in her bra and brought it home and nursed it to adulthood and released it. She named it C-Cup.

Why does anyone rescue things that are not in short supply and are essentially just part of the food chain?
 
Send them this way. I have one they can relocate. It weighs 250 to 300 lbs and is on our deck
about every other night. I told my wife she had better takes her bird feeders down but she
doesn't have to now.LOL He even left her a thank you gift
 
I will never understand why anyone relocates pests, they are just moving the problem away from them and on to someone else. I have seen populations go up and down but never as bad as you mentioned. They will only have 1 litter per year and average 3-5 per litter.
 
In Illinois:

"By law, raccoons in Illinois must either be:
1) released on the same property within 100 yards of where the animal was captured
2) surrendered to a licensed veterinarian who is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator
3) humanely euthanized."
 
I can relate to the problem. Most of the photos taken with the game cameras are coons. Just pulled the cards on the cameras and one photo had 8 hanging on the cage trying to get the corn. I don't enjoy taking them out, but they are so destructive, it has to be done.
 
We get a couple per year. Used to be a lot more came around. I have become proficient with my paintball gun, normal thing is getting into the recycle bin, which is in the carport directly under my bed (I love 2 in the morning 'clanking'), so when they leave (in a hurry), they are generally painted yellow and don't come back. Neighbor asked me last year " have you seen a yellow raccoon ?".
 
(quoted from post at 15:53:51 03/13/16) Cold and rainy here so I'm goofing off on the old computer. I was posting to a chicken question which got me remembering something that happened several years back. I had a massive spike in raccoon (L. Procyon lotor -Latin for the wandering beast/monster). Normally I might have to shoot two or three in a given year, some times none at all, but this particular year I trapped and or shot over forty of the blighters! FORTY! with a 4 and a 0! Holy smokes what the heck is going on I thought to myself. The next year it was twenty! Well it turns out the mostly wooded property across the road was sold to a new owner whom lived in town, when ever he or one of his pals had a raccoon problem they would live trap them and relocate them to the country, or more accurately my farm. Scheesh! So I thought I'd ask if any body has any opinions or similar stories? Well rain or no rain I got chores to do, will check back later. JD
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When relocating it's a good idea to stop and teach the raccoon how to swim. Then continue on the journey even if the coon fails the lesson.
 
I've got a tree hugger friend who saves every living
thing that crosses her path. She had a terrible
problem with possums. She was constantly
relocating them. I tried to tell her she was catching
the same couple but she didn't think so. I finally got
her to spray paint one Ford blue before releasing it.
It took two days for it to make the five mile trip back
home.

I got rid of some roosters a while back. I painted
one blue and dropped it in her pen with her horses.
 
We keep the Coca-Cola, golden marlin mix out pretty steady always seem to have a dead 'coon not far from the bowl, also gets possums and skunks. So far only 1 cat has died. She was on her last legs so maybe she had a death wish.
 
have a softhearted buddy trapping & releasing coons 1 mile from his house. Coons were prolly beating him back home. If you ever use dogs to chase coon you know how fast they can travel a mile on those short little legs.
 
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