Look what we caught last night

[Alabama ee]

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I don't think I could do it. Neither would my hubby. I would just take it several miles away, far from homes, and release it.

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

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Am I understanding correctly? You have a HUGE ALLIGATOR in the back yard and the spouse is afraid of an electric fence?

I guess it is all in where you are from and what you are used to.

We have a pulsating bull-trainer fencer on the electronet around the poultry (bear with cubs in the area). Sure enough, the boys start daring or paying each other to touch the wire. They get zapped once and won't do it again. Being a pulser it allows them to let go. It would be bad to get tangled in it or get the zap in the head, or have your feet spread wide apart or laying on the ground when you get zapped. Or forget to turn it off and get zapped when trying to step over the fence. But otherwise it isn't all that bad.

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

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There really isn't anywhere "far from homes" any more. And those folks don't want your problem animal.

Animals can and do travel great distances. Tagged squirrels have returned from a 20 mile drop off in under a week.

Once released, the animal is at a severe disadvantage, not knowing the new terrain. They can easily suffer and die before they figure out food, shelter, water, dangers and established territories in this new place.

Animals with a non-visible disease transported to a clean area can spread the infection.

It is just a bad idea to transport nuisance animals. It "feels" better, but it really isn't. A sad truth.

Best to end its life as quickly and humanely as possible.

 

[RobbingPeter]

I have a question that I think is pertinent to this discussion.

It seems that there is a good bit of feeling that drowning is too cruel of an option. But what if you live in an area that is populated enough that there are ordinances against discharging firearms? I live in an urban area and it is illegal for me to discharge a fire arm except in emergency situations. And I am pretty sure a raccoon in a trap isn't an emergency. The raccoon at large wouldn't qualify as an emergency, and if I did discharge a firearm it would get the cops to my house and they would see I have illegal chickens.

So - in this circumstance what is the most humane way to dispose of the pest in question?

 

[patnjess]

extremmely illegal here!

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I don't think I could do it. Neither would my hubby. I would just take it several miles away, far from homes, and release it.

 

[patnjess]

yep here's "sammy" he don't bother us we dont bother him. we have about 3 footer too

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Am I understanding correctly? You have a HUGE ALLIGATOR in the back yard and the spouse is afraid of an electric fence?

I guess it is all in where you are from and what you are used to.

We have a pulsating bull-trainer fencer on the electronet around the poultry (bear with cubs in the area). Sure enough, the boys start daring or paying each other to touch the wire. They get zapped once and won't do it again. Being a pulser it allows them to let go. It would be bad to get tangled in it or get the zap in the head, or have your feet spread wide apart or laying on the ground when you get zapped. Or forget to turn it off and get zapped when trying to step over the fence. But otherwise it isn't all that bad.

 

[Rin]

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The drowning issue frankly is purely opinion. Some people who haven't done it claim cruel based on their own experience as a human. People who HAVE done it claim the animal was more scared about being in the cage in the first place. Speaking as someone who had their head held under water by someone to the point I was just giving up before someone got the jerk off me. It WASN'T painful, just SCARY. You don't think that animal in the cage isn't TERRIFIED? Being under water wont scare them any more than the cage itself did. To them it's like they were trapped, terrified, then falling asleep. But, that's just my two cents on the matter. I wont judge someone for doing it. But I wont judge anyone for not wanting to do it either. If it doesn't bother you, do it. If it does, then please don't.

In your case though, you might have to unless you can get a BB/pellet gun strong enough to kill.

 

[bockbock2008]

I just bought a 1200 ft/sec pellet gun last weekend for just this reason! (Didn't own any kind of gun before that) The opposums I can handle with a shovel but them coons are too mean and fast!

 

[trinityfly]

We live out in the middle of millions of acres of National Forest so we relocate trapped predators. Most folks live in people country and that makes relocation difficult and in many cases illegal. Local animal control or state dept. of fish and game some sometimes help. But when all alternatives are exhausted (including expanded protection for your stock) then euthanatizing them becomes the only alternative.

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Just shoot that dumb coon!! Drowning is one of the worst ways to die. How would you like to drown???????? And relocating is against the law and your putting a death sentence on it anyway. It'll die before it can find food and establish it's territory.

After you shoot it just throw it to that alligator. He'll take care of it for you.