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'coons are evil little bastards.
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All I got.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sourc...70287838248139
'coons are evil little bastards.
I used day old potato salad to catch a raccoon. It was day old when I put it out. I like this option over tuna or cat food, because it didn't attract cats. I hear Peanut butter also works. I tried peanut butter in a live trap once, but the coon just tripped the trap and left it empty for me.
Just be careful whatever you do.. remember this story?
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...ws/ci_19358749
Quote:
Witnesses who saw a group of men beating a raccoon to death on University Hill last week -- with a baseball bat, machete and hockey stick -- expressed skepticism about their claims that they were "putting it out of its misery," according to a police report.
And, according to the report, one of the suspects later acknowledged to police that the group was "pumped up" and "excited" about killing the raccoon, which regularly visited their trash cans.
Nicholas Philip Foti, Lucas Holton and August Quinn Noble, all 19, were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony aggravated animal cruelty after several neighbors told police they had beaten a raccoon at their residence in the 1000 block of 11th Street.
August Quinn Noble (Boulder County Sheriff's Office)
According to the report, the neighbors who called were visibly upset, with one of them, Allegra Brewer, telling police it was "the most barbaric thing she had ever witnessed."
The incident happened around 6 p.m. Nov. 7.
No one answered the door Thursday at the University Hill home where the suspects live together. Foti did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Foti and Noble are listed as students on the University of Colorado website. Holton told police he attends Front Range Community College.
According to police, Foti told officers he hit the raccoon with a baseball bat to scare it because it was going through his trash. When he realized he had hit it harder than he meant to, he decided to "put down" the animal.
Holton told police he heard noise outside and saw the raccoon squirming after Foti hit it, and Holton used his machete to "put it out of its misery." In a later interview, Holton told police the men also were "excited about it."
Another roommate told police he "got scared and ran around the east side of the house," the report said. "He said he knows that raccoons are 'vicious' and didn't know what it might do."
Noble initially told police he never hit the raccoon,
Lucas B. Holton (Boulder County Sheriff's Office)
but after he was identified by witnesses, he told police he hit it with a hockey stick as it ran past him. According to the report, police took the bat -- a Louisville Slugger -- and the machete as evidence. Foti then repeated that he killed the raccoon to be humane.
"Yeah, it's not like we were trying to brutally murder it," Holton told police.
"Well, it was kind of brutal," Foti said, according to the report. "I'll give you that."
When told that the suspects claimed they were putting the raccoon out of its misery, the neighbors who saw it said it didn't look that way to them.
"They were goofing off, having a good time," Carly Friedman, who witnessed the incident, told police. She said the men were laughing and saying "Get it!"
Brewer, another witness, said the men looked like they were having fun.
"They were proud of what they were doing, saying 'Yeah, go get it!'" Brewer said, according to the report.
A necropsy performed at Colorado State University found the raccoon died of blunt-force trauma, according to police.
Under Colorado law, someone commits aggravated animal cruelty when he or she "knowingly tortures, needlessly mutilates, or needlessly kills an animal."
A hearing for filing of charges against Noble is scheduled for Tuesday. Foti and Holton are scheduled to be charged Dec. 2.
"Animal cruelty cases are a priority for this office," said District Attorney Stan Garnett, who has assigned a prosecutor to specialize in such cases. "We haven't charged this case yet because we haven't closely reviewed the facts yet."
I've trapped dozens of raccoons and more than a few skunks, it's a pretty easy solution and safer than shooting at night. It's not really fair to relocate them, you're just dumping the problem on somebody else. It is lawful to trap and euthanize coons and skunks on your property, no license necessary. It is not lawful to relocate skunks, and not lawful to relocate coons without a permit from CPW.
Pest control trappers typically drop a trap with the coon or skunk into a 55 gal barrel along with a chloroform soaked rag, the cover the barrel. The DOW/CPW uses CO2 gas in an enclosed plastic box. The animals go to sleep permanently. Water works well, too. 30-60 seconds, problem over.
Be very careful to wear heavy leather gloves when handling a trap with a raccoon inside. They can get you through the wire; many carry feline distemper and some carry rabies.
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oonTrapped.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ThisStinks.jpg
water in a trashcan works, but takes about 6 mins, and it's not on the up and up....
Make sure you only use collected rain water.
Coons have a nasty parasite that eats the brains of rabbits, (and humans) Its rare, but you don't want it. Coon poo is DEADLY. So is coyote poo, or it can be.
Raccoon bait = RED GUMMY BEARS, they love the damn things. then when it comes out you shoot it in the head with 1100+ fps pellet rifle, problem solved, problem staying solved [Beer]
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Originally Posted by jim
the problem is always if it is under the shed anything you do that results in its death, outside of trapping it, means there is potential that it will die under the shed or your house.