Damn raccoons

[CS1983]

I feel like there's a good Forrest Gump reference here.

Ahem... https://www.ar-15.co/threads/159276-...=1#post2025708

Coons? Well raccoons tried to get in our back porch, Momma just chase 'em off with a broom!

- Forrest Gump

[StagLefty]

A friend had the same problem recently and his Dad told him to get some human urine in a bottle and sprinkle it around the area where they were known to be. He swears he hasn't had a problem since. Sounded crazy to me but if it works you haven't taken any chances with shooting them.
He also found out the little old lady down the street was putting food out for them !!!

[kwando]

You're telling me you guys don't piss outside already anyways??

[Irving]

You're telling me you guys don't piss outside already anyways??

I know right? Sorry Stag, that's a myth.

[Gman]

I think someone may be feeding them on our street.

All it takes is a neighbor that puts out food for their dog in a bowl.

[CO Hugh]

....I just found out my neighbor's neighbor has been setting out food for the raccoons and feral cats.

Maybe the animals would like some decon with their food!

[Skip]

....I just found out my neighbor's neighbor has been setting out food for the raccoons and feral cats.

That's beyond stupid in several ways.

[KevDen2005]

Ahem... https://www.ar-15.co/threads/159276-...=1#post2025708

Dang it, I thought I read through every post and I thought I was so clever.

[hatidua]

Our neighborhood is infested with raccoons and unless every neighbor was on the same page in terms of wanting to control the problem (which will not happen), it's a battle that can't be won in my town where private ownership of chickens is now fairly popular and a known temptation for raccoons. Raised porches and decking seems to be a favored coon condos around here where very few of the backyard decks don't have racoons residing under them (easy enough to see with a flashlight even at noon).

While trapping them is effective in terms of capture, I highly suspect they breed faster than trapping reduces overall populations. Irrespective of the legalities of taking a trapped coon elsewhere, a few knowledgeable people I've spoken to suggest that in order not to have that same racoon return to the same neighborhood, they need to be taken at much as 20 miles away - which is a bit of a hassle.

Back when we had two little dogs that were not much bigger than the local racoons, our veterinarian warned us more than once that our 15# dogs tangling with a raccoon would very likely mean the end of our pet. As such I took to hating racoons. Mothballs sprinkled around where racoons live seem to drive them away for a bit, as do rags soaked in amonia.

As guaranteed a reply as "shoot them" is when this topic comes up on firearms related forums, I'd not risk the penalities when there are potentially other methods of abating the problem.

[newracer]