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Raccoons vs Foxes ???

J

Jeff in ND

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Since my Dad passed in 2012, I have spent a couple weeks each summer at the farm working on repairs/maintenance and keeping up with the tall weed mowing for my Mom.

I've had traps and poison out for critters all these past 6yrs and typically get at least a dozen raccoons a summer, often more. Couple years ago I think it was about 1/2 dozen skunks, couple of woodchucks, and about 15 raccoons so a well infested place!!

This year, does not seem to be any around or a lot less. The water pan in the barn for the feral cat colony is not getting muddy and the cat food Mom puts out is even lasting until the next day so seems like no 'coons? Then, last week while I was there I spotted a fox around the property on 2 occasions. I think its living someplace in the tree shelterbelt.

Do Foxes go after 'coons ? Would not seem they would hunt them directly as about the same size?
 
Fox won't mess with a Coon.....one on one not much out there that will. I've seen really bad
dogs back off. Two dogs is a different story.
 
(quoted from post at 16:04:03 07/09/18) Fox won't mess with a Coon.....one on one not much out there that will. I've seen really bad
dogs back off. Two dogs is a different story.
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Fox has no chance in a fight with a raccoon.....My Dad always said that if a coon can get even a big dog in the crik, the coon will win.
 
I would think a fox would not mess with a coon.

Bring your cat food and water in at night, discourages the wildlife.
 


No fox in his right mind will mess with a raccoon.I've seen them get baby woodchucks but a 'coon,not a chance.
 
Feed the cats in the morning. Feed them only enough that it is all gone by sundown. You'll still get coons and possums and skunks but with out a source of food they won't move in. gobble
 
Had a Rat terrier dog attack a coon and coon would have won if I hadn't been there. They grab the dog at the throat area. Had a real good Rat terrier male dog once, was here on a Sunday nite but gone Monday morning. Looked all over thinking he might have been stolen. Found him some time later in the bean field dead not far from our house. Had a mean snarl on his face when he died. Probably a coon took him out. I have heard that a female coyote will lure the dog out and then a pack kills the dog.
 
(quoted from post at 08:15:13 07/09/18)
(quoted from post at 16:04:03 07/09/18) Fox won't mess with a Coon.....one on one not much out there that will. I've seen really bad
dogs back off. Two dogs is a different story.
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Fox has no chance in a fight with a raccoon.....My Dad always said that if a coon can get even a big dog in the crik, the coon will win.
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Almost seen it happen one time, not a big dog a -beagle. We were rabbit hunting and the beagle lit out after the coon. Coon runs into the swamp and heads for the deep end. Dog paddles out and my buddy Tom is horrified. He's yelling at the dog but it's not listening. Next thing you know the coon is on the back of the dog and is holding his head under water. The dog's head is bobbing up and down as he tries to breath. Tom takes dilibrate aim and when the dogs head was pushed down he shot the racoon. I was a pup at the time and I couldn't beleive some one would shoot at their own dog. I asked him if he wasn't worried about hitting the dog and he pointed out that if he hadn't took the shot the dog wasn't going to live anyway. Very pragmatic guy that Tom, and an excelent marksman. Hope Dad and Tom are kicking some brush piles up there. If that rainbow bridge stuff is true they must have one heck of a large pack of beagles.

JD
 

Thanks all. Yeah, I would not think a Fox would actually take on a 'coon. Some reading on this topic suggested that Fox scat and urine around the area deter 'coons. If this Fox is hanging out around the building site, could it be marking stuff like dogs, etc?

On the other hand maybe the population is down. I was told my cousin who lives in town shot one this spring with his pellet gun in his yard and it was foaming at the mouth. Farm site is next to town so basically the same general area. Maybe disease is knocking them out.

~usually~ my Mom puts out the cat food in the morning. I have told her to do that so the cats have a chance at it, ha.
 
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