What did you do in the garden today?

[NewBoots]

I have a Ryobi Riding mower, it's an electric one and I absolutely LOVE IT !

If we had been able to get more land I'd go for one of those.

Does this look like a raccoon to yall?

Looks like a raccoon to me but it's hard to be sure. Can you find any tracks?

Seven pounds of green tomatoes, four yellow onions, two red onions, three yellow bell peppers, and two red bell peppers, all run through the food processor and salted are draining in colanders. Tonight I'll can them up for relish. The weather is really cooperating, I'm betting I get use out of all the tomatoes still out there with the exception of one tomato plant that has way too much foliage still clogging up air flow. I'm afraid to go hacking at it to improve air circulation for fear of cutting the wrong thing, it's a jungle out there.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Looks like a raccoon to me but it's hard to be sure. Can you find any tracks?

It dug up the mint and hosta right there at corner of the run as well as pulled out the cardboard...something also gave a few digs into the garden. No tracks per say cause we haven't had rain in weeks.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Does this look like a raccoon to yall?

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• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Oct 9, 2022

Looks like a floofy cat to me.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It dug up the mint and hosta right there at corner of the run as well as pulled out the cardboard...something also gave a few digs into the garden. No tracks per say cause we haven't had rain in weeks.

I bet you're right and it's a raccoon then. That's definitely something they would do.

 

[whitehousechix]

Picked some oldish tomatoes and cucumbers for the goaty goats and chicken children

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I bet you're right and it's a raccoon then. That's definitely something they would do.

Yeah thr stray cats I've seen don't have the floofy tail...ugh dadgum coon

 

[WthrLady]

It's a cat. Raccoons waddle.
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NOPE NOPE I just put it on the 60 inch TV raccoon. Striped tail, pointy ears and all. Clear as a bell.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

It's a cat. Raccoons waddle.
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NOPE NOPE I just put it on the 60 inch TV raccoon. Striped tail, pointy ears and all. Clear as a bell.

Yeah i thought I saw striped tail too...he'll keep comin back won't he? We live in city...can't shoot the dadgum thing and never caught notin in the live trap few months back...though they'd pull everything through cracks.
Ugh N I've got 2 hatches in incubators right now and my brooder is down there once they r 2 weeks old. He'll be even more determined.

 

[Sally PB]

can't shoot the dadgum thing and never caught notin in the live trap few months back...though they'd pull everything through cracks.

I caught 2 raccoons this spring in a live trap. I used peanut butter in a dish, so they couldn't pull it through the bars of the cage. Also, put it far enough back that they have to go in and step on the activator plate, but not right up against the end.

Do you have a way to get rid of them if you catch one? I shot mine, but you said you can't do that where you live.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I caught 2 raccoons this spring in a live trap. I used peanut butter in a dish, so they couldn't pull it through the bars of the cage. Also, put it far enough back that they have to go in and step on the activator plate, but not right up against the end.

Do you have a way to get rid of them if you catch one? I shot mine, but you said you can't do that where you live.

Nope...and it wasn't my cage so guess I'm at the mercy or nature and my ½" hardware cloth...I have a few places i need to sturdy up where it overlaps a few feet midway up the run all around...if a crazy cantaloupe could find its way between there I'm sure a coon could too.