Anyone with experience getting rid of raccons?

They probably confused a racoon with chipmunk.

 

I REALLY hope not! LOL!

 

Maybe your the one that is confused.

 

LOLOLOL!!!!! I've got some GREAT stories about those things! I will pm you sometime about them. From what you've just told me I think you would think they are pretty funny. Also, just out of curiosity, did your cpu try and correct you for spelling it without an "o" as the first letter? Mine doesn't but the word actually starts with a silent o right?

 

I think he was just curious as to why the dog was bringing back the antlers. That's the way I took it anyway. TTF is quite the Grizzly Adams so I'd be surprised if he didn't know that. You're a big hunter and I was actually curious if you ever coon hunted before? I figured you're more of a big game type of dude though.

 

I'm sorry to hear that you lost your wife. Just out of curiosity, is it actually legal to feed those? I think it is here but not in like a National Park because they don't want them to get too friendly with humans because they can then become aggressive when they are hungry. That's why people can't interact with black bears in the Smoky Mtn National Park. I have a friend at work that is REALLY in to helping animals and she rescues a lot of them and takes them home with her and everything. She is actually a vegan because of her desire to try and help animals. I think she will eat fish though.

 

Yeah people don't actually eat them. They sell the skins. I'd say you COULD eat them but it would probably be really nasty. I've eaten bear and it was HORRIBLE! ELK on the other hand.... GOOD GOOD GOOOOOOD!

 

The park is a small regional park and I don't think their are any regulations on feeding. I don't really know though as my wife and I have never worried about any rules when it comes to helping an animal. I'm sure in a lot of situations they could get aggressive. but the ones I work with it's just me and them and we get along fine. Tell your friend I like her already and I do the same as far as helping them, bringing them home, relocating them to new places and finding them new homes. I'm sure some of the things I have done to help an animal is not real legal but it is what it is and the only thing I care about is helping the animal.

 

ALVIN!!!!!!

 

Doot. Doot. Doo Doo Doo Doot. Doot. Doot. Doo Doo Doo Doot.

 

You are doing the right thing. If she has her babies with her you don't want to try much with her. She will be scared, angry and dangerous. In that situation she could easily attack and that would probably would not have a good ending. I did that once with a coon not knowing she had her babies and I certainly got the worse of that go around.

 

I had one deliver babies when I had her in the cage. I let them go but I'd say they died. Some of them died at birth. That mother was extremely aggressive too (understandably). I'd say it's better to just call animal control at this point. Then call a construction worker to fix your floor! LOL! There is also some like flea bomb stuff you can buy to kill those fleas that she caused to get in your house.

 

Blast are you trying to humanely get rid of it? or looking to end it? I had a friend who had problems with a raccoon getting into her garage and they couldn't get it to hold still enough to kill it so I recommended the method talked about in the book where the red fern grows. I never did hear if she tried it. The book had a method to trap the coon and keep it in place until you can kill it. Take a log and drill a hoel roughly the size of a quarter into it about three to five inches then take a shiny piece of sheet metal about the size of a nickel or slightly smaller than your hole. then drive a couple of nails at angles into the log so the points come out in your holes. The point being the raccoon will be able to place its paw into the hole to grab the metal but once it closes it around the disk it won't be able to get it out because the closed paw will be poked by the nails but the coon's nature won't allow it to let go of the shiney metal. I have always been curious if it was a literary fiction or if it would really work

 

Don't talk about Where the Red Fern Grows. I will start weeping. It is the d minor equivalent of literature. People weep instantly when they read it.

 

Nice way to nonchalantly toss in a Spinal Tap joke/reference.

 

Exactly! LOL!