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Quote: We have found the same thing, except that we have not had to remove any predators. The fox and some raccoons came back for about a week, several times each night, only to be thwarted by the new electric fence (we set several traps, but didn't get anything in them this time). We've had...

Quote: I'd be willing to concede a possibility of the owls (but if so, not enough of them to keep the raccoons in check), but I've lived within 5 miles of this same area for 30 years, and have never even heard of a coyote sighting. But an hour or so north at my mom's lake house, you better...

Quote: Oh, I have no doubt they're present somewhere in our county! And any other county, for that matter. They're just not present where I live. We're in one of those odd "semi-rural" areas. We're surrounded on all four sides by neighbors with small acreage (like 5 acres each), and there...

Oh, I know. And I should mention that what our permit allows is depredation at night. The way it was explained to us, we can do "whatever [we] need to do" during daylight hours, but the permit was required to legally "hunt" these predators at night. Does that make sense?

Quote: Both coyotes and owls (especially great horned owls) are predators of raccoons. We have neither of those. Honestly--there is nothing here that preys on raccoons. Nothing. That leaves them free to reproduce as much as can be supported by raiding local homes. They were a huge problem...

Quote: And hey, if anyone lives in an area with a raccoon shortage? Just gimme a call. You can have ALL of mine.

midget: Have you checked with your state's version of Game & Fish Commission (or whoever oversees hunting)? It's illegal for us to kill or relocate, too. BUT, when we contacted the G&F, they took our info, then assigned a individual caseworker (for lack of a better term) to us. That person...

Exactly. We learned a lot when we contacted our state's Game & Fish Commission. We now have a depredation permit so that we may legally deal with predators such as fox and raccoons. I definitely don't fall into the "SSS" camp, but I'm not so naive as to believe we can "all just get along,"...

Rainman--Wow, it's not often that someone posts something that makes me consider something from a whole new perspective. It's actually never occurred to me that for medium-size predators like raccoons, 'possum, and fox, there really is no natural predator around where we live! We missed ONE...

I'm considering starting to leave a dog out nights to patrol for raccoons, 'possum, and fox, our problem predators. I'm sorry to say that I have very little sympathy for the raccoons, because they're not just after our chickens--they make our lives miserable this time of year when they're...