Stormin Mormon wrote:

I'd think you would say to trap and kill. Moving
is about as effective as taking a bucket of water
from one side of the boat to the other side.

A friend of mine went that route. Buy a Hav-A-Heart trap, catch the raccoon,
drive him out to the woods, release him. I think the raccoon made it home
before my friend did. I offered to provide a more permanent solution but
this is a guy who had a panic attack when I reached into my pocket for
parking meter change and ge saw a stray .357 cartridge in my pocket litter.

On 9/19/2014 1:04 AM, rbowman wrote:
A friend of mine went that route. Buy a Hav-A-Heart trap, catch the raccoon,
drive him out to the woods, release him. I think the raccoon made it home
before my friend did. I offered to provide a more permanent solution but
this is a guy who had a panic attack when I reached into my pocket for
parking meter change and ge saw a stray .357 cartridge in my pocket litter.

Javoe! Ze more permanant zollution, mein
herr?

I thought you were in Alaska, and everyone
carries multiple guns, there?

As the racoon making it back, it's a dynamic
population. And the guy next over probably
moved to fill the void.


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Stormin Mormon wrote:

I thought you were in Alaska, and everyone
carries multiple guns, there?

You're confused. I was in Prince Rupert, BC once and you can see Alaska from
there. That's as close as I need to get.

Actually, the racoon episode was in Lexington, MA. Emerson's poem
immortalized North Bridge in Concord, but the first shots were fired in
Lexington where 8 colonials were killed and 1 redcoat wounded. Neighborhood
has went to hell since then.

I lived in New Hampshire, which is still a free state, and had been out
shooting in the morning before driving down to Boston for a seminar.

wrote:

Here in Florida, I just tolerate them. I made a rack for my trash cans
that keeps them from turning them over and they have not been able to
get the tops off in the rack.

Fortunately, the coyotes, mountain lions, and the odd wolf keeps them sorted
out around here. I did find a small, dead racoon on the lawn one morning
that was a little worse for the wear, so maybe the eagles get into the act
too. It's not widely advertised but eagles and ospreys do fumble sometimes.
I've found fish on the lawn too.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:54:37 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:56:22 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

wrote:

Here in Florida, I just tolerate them. I made a rack for my trash cans
that keeps them from turning them over and they have not been able to
get the tops off in the rack.

Fortunately, the coyotes, mountain lions, and the odd wolf keeps them sorted
out around here. I did find a small, dead racoon on the lawn one morning
that was a little worse for the wear, so maybe the eagles get into the act
too. It's not widely advertised but eagles and ospreys do fumble sometimes.
I've found fish on the lawn too.



Gators like them around here but we still have plenty of raccoons.
There is enough wild area around here to provide natural habitat.
When I put my wildlife cam out, I see more cats, armadillos and
possums than raccoons.

I would give a cat a swimming lesson before I would bother the
natives.

I saw these in Broward County: Walking Catfish

'...ability to breath air and make short overland movements by pulling
themselves along with their pectoral fins much like an infantry-man
scooting under barbed wire..."

http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/fish/freshwater/nonnatives/walking-catfish/

Damndest thing I ever saw, all over a parking lot. Cars running over
them. It was in a heavy rain.