Two raccoons that won't be coming around here no more

[eggbert420]

My wife came in from feeding the rabbits last night screaming get a gun. I asked her why. She replies, there are two raccoons that were trying to get my rabbits , and your dogs got them up a tree. To make a long story short, ill show you a picture. I used a Ruger 10/22 head shots.

 

[Pork Pie]

Nice work

 

[Hybridchucks]

good job!
poor things, what a shame its in their nature to kill.......

 

[jeria]

Good for you! Sorry I used to like coons but don't anymore.

 

[eggbert420]

I found out this morning, that they had chewed a foot off one of my small rabbits.

 

[Hybridchucks]

whaaaaat!!!!! is it alive

 

[eggbert420]

It was alive. I culled it this morning.

 

[jeria]

Oh how sad. How painful for that rabbit..

 

[dekel18042]

Although we've caught raccoons in traps set up for foxes, I never worried too much about them as they seemed to be mostly creatures of the night when the chickens were locked up.
Then this spring I reset up my pond with some beautiful goldfish and plants.
The plants were pulled out. The water was muddied. The fountain was upset and dismantled and my fish were dead and dying. I found one fairly large beautiful fantail under a nearby bush half eaten.
Yep, coons. Now I need to go after them before I can restore fish to my pond.

 

[jeria]

We see them often during the day in the park behind my house especially near the creek or sometimes wandering down the streets.