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[ChocolateMouse]

Bingo. A trapped raccoon in a city, 9/10 times, is just a smarter raccoon that someone with licensing has to take care of instead.

Much better to focus on exclusion.

 

[duluthralphie]

The city is being short sighted, in my humble opinion, releasing them even with a land owner’s permission is just transferring the problem to someone else.

They won’t stay on the land owners property and they like the taste of chickens, chicken feed or whatever they get there.

I seriously doubt a large maul to the head or even a sharp knife could be called animal cruelty. It’s as fast an painless as possible.

 

[MGG]

The city is being short sighted, in my humble opinion, releasing them even with a land owner’s permission is just transferring the problem to someone else.

They won’t stay on the land owners property and they like the taste of chickens, chicken feed or whatever they get there.

I seriously doubt a large maul to the head or even a sharp knife could be called animal cruelty. It’s as fast an painless as possible.

X2.
When my dad lived in the city he trapped raccoons that kept getting into the trash and just used his ax.

 

[007Sean]

A big dog or two, is a pretty good determined racoon limiter.

 

[duluthralphie]

A big dog or two, is a pretty good determined raccoon limiter.

Not my big dog, she would fix a plate for them.

 

[MissE]

Have you tried a motion activated sprinkler? I know people who use them to keep deer and rabbits out of their gardens.

https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-62100-...sprinkler&qid=1610919452&sr=8-3&tag=hydsma-20

I know what I would do to get rid of the little buggers, but I understand you wanting to not have run ins with the authorities.

 

[007Sean]

Not my big dog, she would fix a plate for them.

Not my Weimers, one grabs one end and the other, the other end...end of racoon problem.

 

[duluthralphie]

Not my Wiemers, one grabs one end and the other, the other end...end of racoon problem.

Are they busy this spring?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

The city is being short sighted, in my humble opinion, releasing them even with a land owner’s permission is just transferring the problem to someone else.

They won’t stay on the land owners property and they like the taste of chickens, chicken feed or whatever they get there.

I seriously doubt a large maul to the head or even a sharp knife could be called animal cruelty. It’s as fast an painless as possible.

Well, feel free to take that up with the majority of suburbia. Lemme know when you reach Ohio, we've got suburban sprawl for days. I'm sure the soccer moms wouldn't object to someone spiking coons through the head next door.

In the meantime - a raccoon isn't going to get through a welded wire dig guard around the bottom of the pen, and neither are any foxes or coyotes or medium size dogs. And they're not going to undo multi phase lock like latches with carabiners in them. And they're not gonna chew through the plywood lined 2x4 frame of my coop, or pry up nest box lids held down with chains, or lift a pop door with a 2X2 bar secured over it. And this is what I have. Steel hardware does its job.

Exclusion for days.

 

[007Sean]

Are they busy this spring?

Not spring here yet, got a few more weeks but they will be around May, that's when momma is teaching her kids how to hunt.