name that predator!!

[maligator2012]

amazingly I don't have a game cam!! I am setting out a live trap at night....I will keep everyone posted...hubby thinks its a fisher...I think raccoon or fox

 

[maligator2012]

I didn't measure it!! and now its faded away..but next time I will...Thanks!!

 

[maligator2012]

Hey everyone!!! It was a raccoon....we trapped him in a live trap and drove him to a wildlife park and let him go!! what a trouble maker....

 

[MarkF]

Be careful relocating raccoons, in most states it is ILLEGAL to transport them more than 500 yards from the capture site without euthanizing them. Not only is the act of relocating them illegal, so is transporting a wild animal without a permit.

 

[chickortreat]

I' not sure where you got that info. I've never heard anything to that effect, though it wouldn't affect me as I would never relocate a living predator to start with. I can see, what with the ridiculous regulations in some states, how the nanny state would have such a stance. I never did well at Mother-May-I.

 

[aart]

Relocating wild animals has to do with the spread of disease, a rather real concern.

 

[sourland]

Relocating wild animals has to do with the spread of disease, a rather real concern.

In addition it educates and 'trap smartens' any that survive and make their way back home to further deplete your flock.

 

[psychoroo]

Most relocated animals don't survive the relocation. Chances are there are already healthy populations of same animal in the relocated area.

 

[MarkF]

I' not sure where you got that info. I've never heard anything to that effect, though it wouldn't affect me as I would never relocate a living predator to start with. I can see, what with the ridiculous regulations in some states, how the nanny state would have such a stance. I never did well at Mother-May-I.

I get my info the same place you can get it, the DNR website for whatever state you live in. Relocating an animal that is a common carrier of rabies and other infectious diseases is a very serious issue, hence why it is illegal to relocate them in most states as is transporting them without the required wildlife permit.

For example, a quick search gave me this website: http://www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife/human/lww_information/raccoons.html

Transporting raccoons is illegal in most cases according to Maine law and even trapping them out of season is illegal, with the exception they are damaging property or livestock, in which case it is legal to kill them but illegal to live trap and relocate.

 

[maligator2012]

Thanks everyone!! We got appropriate permission from the powers that be for what we did, normally we would just dispatch of the critter but it was 5am, we have close neighbors, and going to be a hot day over 100 degrees and humid and animal control couldn't not get to us that day so to avoid the poor animal suffering and dying in the trap we did the next best thing. Normally we would have just taken care of him for fear he would return, but these were strange circumstances......I now have a friend who is doing wild life removal that I didn't know was doing that, so we will call him next time