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Nancy Howell

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Ok, fess up now, which one of you put the raccoon homing device in my barn? Most years I have one or two freeloaders, but this year is a bumper crop. Last night, I trapped and this morning I re-located the 6th raccoon. Now, who put that homing device in my barn?!

P.S. Where is it, so I can remove it? This is getting old and expensive. Those raccoons will eat a week"s worth of cat food in one night.
 
Well I am glad I live in Central Mo. so you can't "relocate" them here. We always used to relocate them to Nirvina or whatever the coon hereafter was called.

Most folks wouldn't think kindly of having them relocated to them. .22 short or subsonic round is quiet, and humane.


Gene
 
Here comes Roberto.

See what happens when you try to be nice and just move them. They just come back.

And raccoons didn't originate in barns either. But they sure like to move in.

Gary
 
ok, ok,, it was me, i plugged in one of them ronco electronic varmit chasers in backwards so it attracts em. (southeast corner of the barn behind the feed barrels)
 
Hey Nancy, I too would agree with the .22 caliber solution. Also sealing the cat food and making it unaccessible might help. My cats will go nuts going after the fish food if they can smell it. I have to put in a sealed container to keep them from trashing the family room trying to get to it. Aim true, their brains are smaller than ya think.

Aaron
 
One of the more amusing moments in my memory was when I was with the postal service. I was out back, putting mail up into the post office boxes. You hear a lot out there from the old-timers hanging around in the lobby witing for their mail. About the best was the morning two of them were discussin' trappin' and transportin' coons, and listenin' in as it dawned on them that they were dumping the trapped critters in each other's neighborhoods.
 
I`ve caught 2 in empty feed barrels in the last couple weeks . I keep a cement block on the lids but sometimes they get one slid over enough to get in and if it`s empty the smaller ones cant jump out . Those two wont be eatin any more steer feed . Neighbor caught a big one yesterday in a hole goin under his house that he thought was a grounghog hole . Leg hold trap then a 22 short , ya sure dont want to get a coon in the house . Mom did have one come through the doggie door last summer and tore a 20 lb. bag of dog food all up then the dog get after it and it went through a window screen and all with the dog right behind it !!
 
i dont remember the last raccoon around here. We have possums. Its bad. Very. I'd say 6 atleast this summer alone. My mom is against guns so i get to kill the things with a sledge hammer. They center around the chicken coop, but going in there right at dark and making positive sure theres no eggs in there has helped, but not much.
 
I'll tell ya what, you better buy a gun because that's a little bit ambitious going around playing whack a mole.
 
they dident use that hammer to knock you in the head as a baby.

could have saved a lot of money in milk or did your breast feed?
 
How far away are you taking them. You need to go 25 plus miles or they will just come back to where they where. Even 25 miles some times isn't far enough. Would you believe also a black snake will come back if its not taken at least 10 miles away.
Hobby farm
 
Three pound hammer makes a possum quit playing.

When he suddenly wakes up and tries to bite your leg, so swing as fast as you can. When the jaw is broke and blood sprays you in the face and he lays down again, the dog guards him a little while and leaves. He'll still be laying there the next morning.

About 6 licks and you're done.
 
Mix up some Coca-cola (the real, high octane stuff) and some fly bait.

They won't come back. I recommend getting rid of the bodies before they start to stink too bad though...

We do it every year on our sweet corn patch. First year we did it we found 10-13 bodies in the patch (most still had their heads in the dish), and then later on when the rest of the field was chopped off, I found a few more. Can only guess how many crawled a little farther before they died...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Alot of people use 2 tablespoons of fly bait in a rabbit bowl filled with Coke. Sometimes the coon is found dead with its mouth in the bowl
 
Australian shepherd.
They are very protective of their premises. My 4 year year old does guard duty at night and sounds the alarm any time a strange critter is around. Treed 5 raccoons so far this summer... Gene
 
what a opertunity here, ok, put a plastic garbage bag in a sutible box, install dead 'possum or 2, in the bag/box, ship it collect to peta, with "compliments, G. W. Bush, c/o 1600 pensylvainia ave." for the return address, that should keep both groups occupied for the remainder of the year, lol
 
i use about a 10 lb hammer once. As it usually occurs i find the thing wherever it may be, and pin it down with a push broom or a shovel or somesuch and drop the hammer from 3-4 feet. Blood squirts out of its head then it twitches all over the place. One less possum.
 
can we get anymore gory than this? Geez! All it takes for me is a 410 henry single shot with 4 shot loads, and they're dead everywhere at a minimal amount of fuss.
 
Hey Nancy,

I have to admit to relocating a few of them also - about 5 last summer. I am curious as to your method of releasing them from the live trap that is safe for both you and the raccoon. (I had one that, once released, didn"t want to run off. He was aggressive so I had to eliminate him with the .45 Ruger.)
 
Lanse get two five gallon buckets, one fill half way the other completely full toss the opossum in the half full one and put the full bucket in on top of him. Less mess.
 
Very carefully. Only one was on the nasty side and I had on heavy leather gloves. Some have taken a minute to figure out the trap door was open, but all have hit high gear when they did. Something to think about though. Next time, I'll be sure to have some kind of persuasion with me when I release them.
 
Shooting them is not an option with horses and cats in the barn. Plus, I'm inside the city limits and no weapons can be discharged inside the city limits.
 
Interesting. I'm taking them about 5 or 6 miles away, but it is a very twisting, turning road. I've trapped one female with a youngster, two very large ones, probably males, one juvenile and one medium sized. Because of the size differences, I don't think any are "repeat offenders". At least not yet.
 
You should be OK yet tonite, they moved into my corn patch last nite. They probably will be back here tonite, I plugged the fence in today so they may be back your way by tomorrow nite. Sorry
 
That works if the coon is stupid enough to eat(drink) it.Our neighbour has a coon problem. It goes in the garage and eats god food. They set out coke and fly bait but it keeps going for the dog food. A gun works best but only if your there when it is.
 
Once they have been trapped they learn and learn fast. I work close with the conservation dept. here in Missouri so I also learn about things like how far you have to move an animal before it will not find its way home again. Twist and turns are nothing to a coon since they go by smell and know where home is. It may take them a week or 2 but they will be back and your not likely to trap them for a long time but you will still loose feed etc. to them
 
Scared me when a lady askes that kinda question. Probaableeeee a good one liner for my ex-wife...... Ok I will try to shut up now!
 
I have always been told that coons won't come around a dead one. Seems to work in the sweet corn patch. One dead'n on each end and the others stay away.

Oh,,, yes I would not kill noth'n, just pick up road kill and put one on each end. Guvment says you can't hurt coons in the summer time,,,,

I know you don't want a dead coon in the back yard but just an idea.
Good luck.
Dave
 
Mother nature pretty much solved the coon problem around here several years ago. Rabies spread thru the region. The police and game commission for the most part said if your see them out during the day and acting funny, don't call us, just whack em' and bury em' Don't touch em' use a shovel and chlorinate it when done.
 
Ugh, opossums. When I was about 15, my grandmother got one of those automatic cat feeders. It was basically a hopper that would let you put a full 18lb bag of cat food in and the cats could just eat out of the bottom. She kept filling it up in the pole shed all winter long for her beloved felines.

The next spring I was messing about in the shed with my dog and the dog started going wild. I ran over an found what looked like a dead opossum. I pulled it out from under the planter and realized it was still alive so I dispatched it with a hammer. As soon as I finished, the dog was back at it. Two hours later the dog's still barking and I'm still pulling opossums out from under machinery. Hammer in one hand and a opossum tail in the other. There were 16 in all (compared to 6 resident cats). The next week, Grandma got worried. She thought her cats must be sick because they stopped eating. I couldn't bring myself to tell her the truth.
 
Subsonic rounds are very accurate and quiet.Hard to find,but I look for them at gun shows.Remington and PMC are brands I use.They cost a bit more because the loud rounds are more popular with shooters.
 
That fyl bait and coke must be what Mom was telling me about the other day. She said my uncle got some poison and mixed with coke to get the critters in his garden and they don't get far from the bowl. So far his cats must not of gotten into it ?
 
About 6 yr. ago I caught a possum in a live trap .went out behind the barn and shot in in the head. When I came home from work I went to dispose of it and it was gone ,looked around and found her about 50 ft. away ,picked her up and saw tails sticking out of her belly .I pulled 13 babies out of her pouch about the size of mice . They are" marsupiles "(sp) and have a pouch like a kangaroo.Got rid of 14 with one shot
 
Before you let them out use a squirt of the dayglow pink marking paint on them. That way you will know if they are coming back.
When you get a repeat visiter just haul him further or use a little lead.
 
When we had skunks we live trapped em and then drown them in an old stock tank purpose being keep the smell down but that would be a quiet way to dispose of coons and better for the cats if you thought theyd get into the flybait and coke.
 
I have learned that cougars like to eat racoons. If you keep a cougar in your barn, maybe that will solve your problem.
 
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