Proof raccoons can climb over the fence

[Cryss]

I've watched raccoons climb trees that have no limbs for a good 80 feet up. Raccoons are excellent climbers.

 

[happyfrenchman]

When was the climbing ability of raccoons ever in doubt. They can climb like spiders if they want to. So can most wild animals including foxes, possums, weasels, any kind of cat,

 

[lazy gardener]

Geography: The raccoon is native to North America and can be found throughout the United States, except for parts of the Rocky Mountains, andsouthwestern states like Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. It can also be found in parts of Canada, Mexico and the northern-most regions of South America.Feb 7, 2012
Raccoon Nation | Raccoon Fact Sheet | Nature | PBS
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/raccoon-nation-raccoon-fact-sheet/7553/

 

[itsasmallfarm]

i knew they could climb but not like that lol.
there cute where they are babies,

not so much where there adults killed three this year (first time i did the shooting/dispatching) and they have some wicked teeth.

 

[The Phantom]

'Nuff said.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/06/13/us/raccoon-minnesota-intl/index.html

Yup they climb. One climbed up my pen, chewed the netting and killed my $600 pheasants. Now we have been shooting them every night.

 

[Ms Biddy]

Exhibit A

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sooooo thankful I don’t have to deal with coons!!!

Why don't you have to deal with raccoons?
Georgia is in the heart of their historical range.
Anyone who doesn't think that raccoons can climb what they've built is just silly.

 

[TheGoldenGirlz]

Why don't you have to deal with raccoons?
Georgia is in the heart of their historical range.
Anyone who doesn't think that raccoons can climb what they've built is just silly.

My neighbors shoot the coons before they get to me

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Really? They all come from one direction across your neighbor's property and from no other direction? There is a great wall of China around your property with a single access that is at your neighbor's property and they are on guard at the gate 24/7?
I wish I had that defense. Oh wait, raccoons can climb the great wall.
Here the raccoons come from all directions from dusk to dawn. Families of them climb down from trees and they skulk through the brush through the night.
I trap relentlessly and they are frequently killed by cars in front of my house. But they keep coming.
If you live in the wilderness, you may have a small population, but close to or in town, they are thick as thieves. I'm sure there are hundreds in the immediate vicinity.

 

[TheGoldenGirlz]

Really? They all come from one direction across your neighbor's property and from no other direction? There is a great wall of China around your property with a single access that is at your neighbor's property and they are on guard at the gate 24/7?
I wish I had that defense. Oh wait, raccoons can climb the great wall.
Here the raccoons come from all directions from dusk to dawn. Families of them climb down from trees and they skulk through the brush through the night.
I trap relentlessly and they are frequently killed by cars in front of my house. But they keep coming.
If you live in the wilderness, you may have a small population, but close to or in town, they are thick as thieves. I'm sure there are hundreds in the immediate vicinity.

I do realize that raccoons are a threat. My neighborS(all four) shoot coons and two of them have LGDs. In 15 years I haven’t seen a raccoon(or signs of a raccoon) or suffered a loss of chickens from a predator. My own dogs don’t get into it with predators but they sure bark at them! I’m not naive, I just have a protected property