July is Racoon Month!!
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hogpatrol
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A few years back I had put up a tree stand close to an adjoining property where two guys had been filming their deer hunts. I chatted with them and they didn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. They sort of took the heat that I was hunting in their "area". First day of gun arrives, in the dark I climb the ladder and there is a TON of dried and fresh fecal matter on the seat and the armrest covers were on the ground, shredded. Now I'm cursing these two guys. I figured one of them came up and did his business in my stand. I related the story to my brother and he informed me that raccoons were the culprits. Fixed it for the next year and same scenario. Never did get a buck out of that stand and pulled it after two years. The bandits had won.
In Texas they pose a few problems. My one friend built a very nice "house style" tree stand for deer hunting. Somehow Raccoons got in and evidently could not figure how to get out. They tore his stand like a bomb went off in it! They also can get into your feeders and spin all the corn out even with varmint cages on them! So on one of the leases we would spent the summers keeping up the lease BUT had fun blasting the critters! Some of the raccoons got to be quite large!
EVERY month is raccoon month. Disturbing the peace is a capital offense on my property. CCI .22 CB Long and a Ruger Single Six for the in-town miscreants.
The chickens and the dog dont seem to like the marshmallows.
The Coons do.
Might not be as good as peanut butter but havent had to let any chickens out of the box trap since i switched!
A few years ago, my dad was feeding his cat in garage, food stared disappearing way faster than his skinny cat could have eaten it. So out goes the trap baited with the same cat food. Over the next 3-4 weeks we caught 9 coons and 1 opposum. We released them about 3 miles from house by a nice creek and no houses near. Every time food disappears st a abnormal rate i get out live trap and catch whatever is eating it. Only caught dads cat 1 time, she learned and will not go in trap even if she is out of food.
A coon cuff baited with marshmallows soaked in maraschino cherry juice is both effective and selective. Not as much fun as shooting them out of a tree, though. 
I'm a member of the LHCRP (Louisiana Housecat Relocation Program). I catch them and carry them to TX (live near the border). If I catch a racoon or opossum, they go to TX also.
At work we have problems with pigeons. They roost in top of the warehouses. We had a family of racoons move in a few years ago that were willing to walk the roof purlins to raid the nests. Those racoons have almost eliminated the pigeon problem. . . .
At work we have problems with pigeons. They roost in top of the warehouses. We had a family of racoons move in a few years ago that were willing to walk the roof purlins to raid the nests. Those racoons have almost eliminated the pigeon problem. . . .
Brians356
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The problem with raccoons is they have no sense of humor. All business, all the time.
I was sitting my living room one summer evening with the front door open for the breeze, watching TV. Out of the corner of my eye I see my cat wander in. I look over and it's not kitty, but a large raccoon sitting five feet away on my carpet, staring at me as like "What're you going to do about it, bub?" I sat there staring back for a long ten seconds, then he calmly turned around and sauntered out again. Startled the bejeezus out of me. They're a whole lot bigger sitting in your front room than out in your yard.
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I was sitting my living room one summer evening with the front door open for the breeze, watching TV. Out of the corner of my eye I see my cat wander in. I look over and it's not kitty, but a large raccoon sitting five feet away on my carpet, staring at me as like "What're you going to do about it, bub?" I sat there staring back for a long ten seconds, then he calmly turned around and sauntered out again. Startled the bejeezus out of me. They're a whole lot bigger sitting in your front room than out in your yard.
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Well that explains it!
Those traps work great!A coon cuff baited with marshmallows soaked in maraschino cherry juice is both effective and selective. Not as much fun as shooting them out of a tree, though.
Coons must not be able to remember for long because I caught this one again after he chewed free about a month earlier.
I wish farm cats could learn not to go in live traps. In the winter we have to use baits that are high in protein, in the summer and fall carbohydrate/sweet baits are better.
Wow!! Ive heard of deadly stupid, but that is its Visual!
hogpatrol
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I have two metal trash cans on my deck. One with sunflower seeds and the other with mixed birdseed. Got up one morning and the lid on the sunflower can was half way open. Asked the wife if she closed the can when she threw out the seed. Yep. Later that night after dark, I get up to lock the sliding glass door and there's Mr. Raccoon lifting up the lid and sliding just far enough so it doesn't fall. I'm standing there looking at him. He's perched on the can looking at me like "You got a problem, pal"? and down he went. I slid open the door and pounded on the deck rail. He came out of there like he had JATO on his butt. Concrete blocks on the lids fixed his fanny.
P1ZombieKiller
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These kind of traps work pretty good too.
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