Garbage companies slide big steel bars thru brackets on the doors of their dumpsters to keep out bears but the coons are smart enough to slide the bars out . They're much smarter than most people realize. I watched a video of a wild coon that pushed the garage door button to open the garage door.Where did he learn how to do that?After the homeowner disengaged the motor from the door the coon lifted the door physically to get in and out.
I live on 90 acres in the sticks, my driveway is almost a 1/2 mile long. Yeah I have all of those and right now I'm trapping wild hogs on my front 10 acres. I'm a licensed wildlife rehabber and have had pet coons, skunks (when they were legal here), squirrels, possums, deer (when they were legal here), and a fox when I was a kid. I got into rehabbing because I grew up with anything I could catch and tame I had, also as I got older I learned better. I only keep wildlife now that are like the OP raised and imprinted so they can't be released. OP will soon learn unless you know what you are doing anything normally wild will never be like anything domesticated. I grew up coon hunting and trapping. I bought my first vehicle when I was 12 by selling a grand champion bluetick hound. Still trap and sell hides. My granny growing up is the reason why I got into trapping. She had actual free range chickens and we had to do predator control.
Off topic a bit, but can I just ask about your pet skunks? I've toyed (literally, I'm almost certain it would never actually happen, let alone if it's even legal here) with having a pet skunk and I've just gotta know some more information from someone who has actually had one
Had him fixed so he was shooting blanks all around. He was house trained to use a litter box and lived inside. When I got him (and his other 4 siblings) I could fit him and his sister in one hand. He finally lived to be 15 years old and died of old age.
