The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Every time I think about the hat, the Daniel Boone theme song from my youth comes to mind. Now it will be stuck there all day. Just for that, here ya go.

Maybe it will be stuck in your mind too.

I'll set the dog proof raccoon leg traps tonight. Trying to thin the herd before winter. Daniel Boone's cap here I come.

I think a big coon can go into a live trap, keep their butt out to prevent the door from closing, grab the bait and escape.
That's the very reason I bit the bullet and invested in the game cam. One can only speculate what happened without it.
A few weeks ago I set up a mink trap - 4" PVC pipe filled with fresh mouse feces and a #110 conibear at each end. Like a big dummy, I didn't set up the game cam and I didn't tie down the traps. I figured if a mink went in, it would be dead. Well, the next morning one of the traps was gone and the other one tripped. It could have been a raccoon or snake or really anything. No camera evidence.
These are the most effective against coons. http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/dog-proof-raccoon-traps.html
I like the brown one best. The first one I bought was bare metal and really rusts. With the bare metal one, you have to boil it to get the oil off so the vermin won't be deterred.

Cat, possum, raccoon, weasel, etc..

I don't think it would encourage cat people to keep them at home. They know cats are vulnerable to dogs, foxes and cars yet let them roam anyway.

I've owned cats and my son has one at our house now. I like cats, indoors.

And how do cats get a free pass when it comes to leash laws?

I tried to put a leash on a cat once--it did not go well. The crazy contortionist was able to get out of a full body harness....

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: What about poison bait CC? We do it of other critters.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It's a thought with some value. To each his own.
I don't use poison for anything. Not certified organic but I don't use herbicides, pesticides, rodenticides, etc.. If I were to do so, I'd inevitably poison something I wanted to keep.
It's really hard to do it this way. I currently have a big problem with knotweed. I'd love to poison the hell out of it, but I have to figure out how to do it manually. If I poisoned a mouse or vole, a snake would probably find it while it was wobbly. The snake dies and so would its value for eradicating hundreds of mice in its lifetime.
For my biggest problem, mink, I'd have to poison a live animal every night since they don't go for anything they can't kill themselves.

IMHO chemicals have their place but just a lot more restricted than they're used for.

ETA

Never say never. I just remembered I did put out poison meat for wasps. I had millions of wasps in my attic crawlspace.

 

[bamadude]

I live about 2 miles away from the alabama coon hunters association. Coon hunting is a big sport around here. People pay thousands and thousands of dollars on coon hunting dogs.

 

[ronott1]

It's a thought with some value. To each his own.
I don't use poison for anything. Not certified organic but I don't use herbicides, pesticides, rodenticides, etc.. If I were to do so, I'd inevitably poison something I wanted to keep.
It's really hard to do it this way. I currently have a big problem with knotweed. I'd love to poison the hell out of it, but I have to figure out how to do it manually. If I poisoned a mouse or vole, a snake would probably find it while it was wobbly. The snake dies and so would its value for eradicating hundreds of mice in its lifetime.
For my biggest problem, mink, I'd have to poison a live animal every night since they don't go for anything they can't kill themselves.

IMHO chemicals have their place but just a lot more restricted than they're used for.

ETA

Never say never. I just remembered I did put out poison meat for wasps. I had millions of wasps in my attic crawlspace.

For the weeds, pulling will eventually get them. The earlier in the year that you start, the less times to pull them out. even if you leave a root piece, it takes energy for the plant go grow so after three times in the spring it will not come back up. You can even do this with hoeing.

We have a long history pre monsanto of weeding like this in the US. Weird that we can't seem to live without week killers anymore.

 

[chickadoodles]

It's a thought with some value. To each his own.
I don't use poison for anything. Not certified organic but I don't use herbicides, pesticides, rodenticides, etc.. If I were to do so, I'd inevitably poison something I wanted to keep.
It's really hard to do it this way. I currently have a big problem with knotweed. I'd love to poison the hell out of it, but I have to figure out how to do it manually. If I poisoned a mouse or vole, a snake would probably find it while it was wobbly. The snake dies and so would its value for eradicating hundreds of mice in its lifetime.
For my biggest problem, mink, I'd have to poison a live animal every night since they don't go for anything they can't kill themselves.

IMHO chemicals have their place but just a lot more restricted than they're used for.

ETA

Never say never. I just remembered I did put out poison meat for wasps. I had millions of wasps in my attic crawlspace.

It was just a thought.

 

[vehve]

Ron, this one is great on weeds too, pulls most of the root with it:

 

[vehve]

Today was pepperoni pizza for dinner. And they had Ben&Jerry's on sale in the store, so now it's time to watch a movie and eat some horribly sweet ice cream!

 

[ronott1]

Ron, this one is great on weeds too, pulls most of the root with it:

Thanks!

I will look for one of those. I do have fiskars lopers and the do a great job of chopping branches.

 

[vehve]

Of course they do. They're Finnish!

I'm a bit of a Fiskars fanatic. I have probably 15 of their garden tools, and loads of their kitchen stuff too. It's the oldest still functioning company in Finland, so they have quite a reputation to keep with their products, and usually they do a good job of doing it in my experience. Don't cut roof shingles with their garden shears though, it sort of messes them up.