Borrowed a *Have A HEart Raccoon trap* Now what?

[MysticScorpio82]

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They won't pick up trapped racoons?!

Wow....I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe there is a BYC member that lives close enough by to help you deal with it?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Maybe your AC won't pick them up from you, but would they accept them if you brought them in?

Our county AC will pick them up if you have rented a trap from them. But they'll accept the ones you bring in your own traps. There was a time when there were such a high number of rabies cases that they'd accept the trapped raccoons & feral cats for free, now they charge $20 each to take them. And they'll fine you $500 if they catch you trying to release one. That's why many folks here dispatch their own trapped raccoons.

 

[humboldtchicken]

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Please read the Predators and Pests forum guidelines here. Thanks! ~Lisa~​

 

[Boyd]

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Since you are obviously new here, go back and read the rules before the mods swoop down on ya, and you get this thread locked.


ETA - Read the rules here - https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5808

Thanks, Boyd.

We don't lock threads automatically, though. It depends on the situation and if we can just edit where needed. Help us out and use the Report button so we know when things are going on that should be looked at. Thanks so much! ~Lisa~​

 

[Boyd]

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I moved out to the country to get away from people who like to tell me how to live my life. for the record, I do not hold a raccoon's hand and sing cumbuya around a campfire.

I keep a gun handy whenever I am outside, and if I run across the occasional raccon, possum or coyote yes, they are marked for death. Sorry, but my pets, my livestock and my garden before anything else.....

That being said, there is absolutely no shortage of raccoons, possums or coyotes in this area. Every few years there is a boom in the population and you are overrun unless you knock their numbers back. Same thing goes for Deer. Without hunts and wildlife management, the local disease vectors go WAY up and animals get desperate as food runs out, and wildlife starts to starve.

If you want to do the live and let live, thats fine and dandy. I guess you don't have the heart to do the responsible thing. Proper wildlife management is not the governments job... its the hunter and trapper's. They just set the guidelines.......

 

[jhm47]

WAY TO GO BOYD!!!!!!!

 

[blbgp]

Don't forget - disposing of one critter just opens up room for something else unless you are also finding a way to exclude future predators. And the critter that fills your raccoon's spot could easily be something even more fun, like a skunk or an opossum. Can you rework your coop?

 

[deerman]

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Yes I move to the country, to have my animals that you cant have in the city. I also have almost 40 acreas set aside for wildlife. Still any predators near my animals will be control, dead ones dont return. Raccoons way out of control my #1 wild predator.

Dont worry so much about people trying to control the wild predator. WORRY about all the dogs and cats predators that kill so much of natures wildlife. People from the city moving there dogs and cats to the country to give them better home???

LOVE THE COUNTRY LIFE, AND WILDLIFE.

 

[Cetawin]

You have little choice. For starters relocating "a few miles up the road" is illegal in CA and does not solve the problem anyway. You need to take it at least 15 miles from you to truly relocate it.

So, the only choices you have...leave it be and predator proof like Fort Knox or kill it.

 

[deerman]

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Myself give me two of either skunk or possum than one raccoon. Both of these much easier to keep out, than a coon.

Guess you have never had to deal with raccoons.