Drunk raccoon

[flyingtnh]

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I'm sure you've heard this already regarding bear scat - they tell you to wear bells to keep the bears away, to carry pepper spray, and be really careful if you see Grizzly scat.

How do you know it's Grizzly?

Easy - it smells like pepper and has little bells in it.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Use to raise raccoons, they are active day and night. Just because you dont see them doesn't make them not there. The bit of raccoons being nocturnal is past between generations, and is based a lot on when hunters go hunting them. After all hunters find it very easy to spot light a coon in a tree and shoot it, than walking around acres of woods in the daylight "hoping" to see one with all of the no ice a person makes walking about.

After many rehabbers and other who have had captive raccoons it has been proven that they do indeed move about day or night. Just because you see one in the daylight doesn't make it rabid. The larger, older and more experienced a coon the more they will move about freely on their hunt for food, water and shelter.



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Beg to differ - Raccoons are nocturnal by nature. If a Raccoon goes Diurnal and hangs around a house during the day, it's usually due to getting over-familiar with humans - usually by providing food, or sickness. Like you said, they do get more active this time of year packing on the fat, which is why you're probably seeing more of them dead on the side of the road now (I know I am). Still, middle of the day would be an alarm flag for me.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74116.html for a bit more on that, as well as some "management strategies."

And you're right on the rabies - but that's late stage, and a coon that's early stage won't necessarily do that. And they can carry it for a long time before they show. In the meantime, they're still a threat to pass it to anything they bite.

Bottom line, a raccoon I see in the middle of the day that doesn't immediately skedaddle when he sees me is a dead raccoon.

 

[deerman]

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Beg to differ - Raccoons are nocturnal by nature. If a Raccoon goes Diurnal and hangs around a house during the day, it's usually due to getting over-familiar with humans - usually by providing food, or sickness. Like you said, they do get more active this time of year packing on the fat, which is why you're probably seeing more of them dead on the side of the road now (I know I am). Still, middle of the day would be an alarm flag for me.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74116.html for a bit more on that, as well as some "management strategies."

And you're right on the rabies - but that's late stage, and a coon that's early stage won't necessarily do that. And they can carry it for a long time before they show. In the meantime, they're still a threat to pass it to anything they bite.

Bottom line, a raccoon I see in the middle of the day that doesn't immediately skedaddle when he sees me is a dead raccoon.


agree sometime they move around during the day, but can't take the heat. Catch one in a live trap, and don't get to it before noon , it will be dead.....


lost the fear of humans sure sign of one being fed or a sick coon.


Yes i raised a few as pets, but they were pets reason they were out during the day.


you know how long it take for apple cider to get hard, weeks. the little a coon get from a apple would not get one DRUNK....for real.



Bet the coons has distemper or rabies.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I would bet distemper now that Deerman mentioned it, and yes they don't do heat at all. Makes trapping them in hot climates interesting to say the least.