Missourians

[roosterhavoc]

Any animal with young will hunt during the day for food. More often than not it's a fox during the day. I've killed raccoons in the middle of the afternoon many times.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Hmm, it wasn't very long before dark, I just meant that it hadn't reached dusk yet. We did find the body the next morning, yesterday morning. We have bought a trap but so far have caught a chicken and 3 cats. My husband set the trap up and after we caught a chicken, we left it unset until we put the chickens in the coop for the night. I have decided that I would at least try to shoot it. My husband had a baby coon as a pet when he was a kid and doesn't think it needs to be killed, just moved. I told him about the law but he never listens to me so I have to find an official to tell him to his face. He wants to take it and release it in a state park a few miles from us.

 

[roosterhavoc]

As you know in most places it is illegal to relocate rabies vector species. Besides that though when you relocate a raccoon you are dropping him off in some other raccoons home. Think of it as one day you come home and find someone sleeping in your bed and eating your porridge. Your not going to be a happy camper. Most times it will end up in the animal being killed or hurt and driven off. If you still choose to relocate just remember your not doing him any favors. IMO if you can't kill it don't trap it.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

As you know in most places it is illegal to relocate rabies vector species. Besides that though when you relocate a raccoon you are dropping him off in some other raccoons home. Think of it as one day you come home and find someone sleeping in your bed and eating your porridge. Your not going to be a happy camper. Most times it will end up in the animal being killed or hurt and driven off. If you still choose to relocate just remember your not doing him any favors. IMO if you can't kill it don't trap it.

It is a violation of state and Federal law to release a raccoon at any location other than the exact location at which the captive coon was captured. The reason is as roosterhavoc indicated to help the US Department of the Interior's efforts to eradicate rabies in the coon population. Bleeding heart Jonny Coon Seeds schlepping strange coons willy-nilly around the country side makes it difficult to eradicate rabies in one area or region what with folks bringing in coons from untreated areas to re-infect already rabies free zones. If you don't care for your own life then think about your children's or grandchild's life. If you don't care about your own family's wellbeing, why are you keeping your own chickens? Coons are no better or no worse than any other external chicken parasite like mites, except that a coon makes a better fur hat.

 

[ivan3]

As you know in most places it is illegal to relocate rabies vector species. Besides that though when you relocate a raccoon you are dropping him off in some other raccoons home. Think of it as one day you come home and find someone sleeping in your bed and eating your porridge. Your not going to be a happy camper. Most times it will end up in the animal being killed or hurt and driven off. If you still choose to relocate just remember your not doing him any favors. IMO if you can't kill it don't trap it.

It is a violation of state and Federal law to release a raccoon at any location other than the exact location at which the captive coon was captured. The reason is as roosterhavoc indicated to help the US Department of the Interior's efforts to eradicate rabies in the coon population. Bleeding heart Jonny Coon Seeds schlepping strange coons willy-nilly around the country side makes it difficult to eradicate rabies in one area or region what with folks bringing in coons from untreated areas to re-infect already rabies free zones. If you don't care for your own life then think about your children's or grandchild's life. If you don't care about your own family's wellbeing, why are you keeping your own chickens? Coons are no better or no worse than any other external chicken parasite like mites, except that a coon makes a better fur hat.

Yeah, so hick a chapeau as that, apparently served to attract salons to overflowing with Parisian Pumas posing as harmless housepets... (though Dr. Franklin relied on the electricity generated on the moment...)