Save the raccoons!

herbicide

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Anyone notice her last name?

To pile on, they don't have any natural predators in Iowa (well, maybe coyotes for their kits/babies). They aren't going anywhere so a bit of population control is probably good for their species health anyway...
 

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My dad used to leave cat food out overnight.

Goodness me that attracted every raccoon and possum within 20 miles to our back porch.

Possums are good animals, though. They can't get rabies and eat ticks.
we took over my wifes' grandpa's farm and he would constantly have old cat food out in the barn and other places. We've lived there 2 years and no one lived there for 3 years before us and I'm still finding random cans of tuna that were out in the barn.

we really had to clean up the place


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Accidentally ran over one late night driving home near Valley HS in West Des Moines a few years back. It was rather big one, too. Luckily the way those buggers move with their head low to the ground, I just clipped the head. Zero damage to my car.
 

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Accidentally ran over one late night driving home near Valley HS in West Des Moines a few years back. It was rather big one, too. Luckily the way those buggers move with their head low to the ground, I just clipped the head. Zero damage to my car.
my inlaws hit one in my MIL nissan altima and it did like 3K damage to the under carriage
 

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My dad used to leave cat food out overnight.

Goodness me that attracted every raccoon and possum within 20 miles to our back porch.

Possums are good animals, though. They can't get rabies and eat ticks.

My Weiner dogs went after a possum one night. He laid down and played dead and they left him alone. After the dogs went back in the house I went back out and helped guide the possum out of the dogs fenced in area. The possum was scared shitless.

I had to have a talk with the dogs to tell them to leave possums alone so there will be less ticks in the yard.
 

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I don't even have a huge raccoon problem- or at least I thought. I was trying to catch a fox because two of them destroyed my chickens-- killed 18, basically my whole flock! so I was setting foot traps everywhere and kept catching coons. Caught 10 of those things in a 2 week span.
when we first moved here I would catch them in live traps and release them in Marshalltown :) until my son got bit trying to get one out of the trap.
 
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1100011CS

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My dad used to leave cat food out overnight.

Goodness me that attracted every raccoon and possum within 20 miles to our back porch.

Possums are good animals, though. They can't get rabies and eat ticks.

I did not know this. Guess I'll quit releasing them in M'town.
 

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my inlaws hit one in my MIL nissan altima and it did like 3K damage to the under carriage
I nailed one a few years ago, damn thing was huge, had to replace air conditioning coil, radiator, and front end cowling, 3 Grand, did all but the cowling myself. The fewer raccoons, the better.
 

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my inlaws hit one in my MIL nissan altima and it did like 3K damage to the under carriage
I was driving a Chevy Cobalt and if I hadn't hit it just with my tire in its head, I'm sure my bumper and other parts would have been shredded.
 

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We took a trip to Florida last summer and took a dolphin viewing excursion. There was an island about 5 miles off the coast that's incredibly small, but when the tide goes out, it leaves a ton of fish on the beach. Somehow, racoons made their way out 5 miles after last years hurricane season. No one knows how they got out there or how they will fare next hurricane season.
 

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sorry guys- i need to post this to vent and make fun of the author.

what the hell is this piece? i get its an opinion piece.

raccoons are notorious for carrying rabies. we farmers are basically calling the raccoons in because of our crops and the grain that we have laying around, so its our fault they show up! When they tear into bags of feed or tear into other stuff its our fault too.

I for one, will generally catch a coon in a live trap and release it elsewhere. I have shot and killed a few boar coons because those things are big and mean and I don't need my dogs getting in a fight with them.

priscilla if youre on cf go get f*cked.
Wait a minute, I was told that hazing could get you into a lot of trouble, like getting kicked out of school.

Also don't tell me the angry puppies aren't dangerous.

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I wonder how she feels about cockroaches, bedbugs, mosquitoes, spiders, mice and rats in her presumably urban environment. They're all God's creatures, deserve to live, just need a little of her tasty food or blood.
 

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sorry guys- i need to post this to vent and make fun of the author.

what the hell is this piece? i get its an opinion piece.

raccoons are notorious for carrying rabies. we farmers are basically calling the raccoons in because of our crops and the grain that we have laying around, so its our fault they show up! When they tear into bags of feed or tear into other stuff its our fault too.

I for one, will generally catch a coon in a live trap and release it elsewhere. I have shot and killed a few boar coons because those things are big and mean and I don't need my dogs getting in a fight with them.

priscilla if youre on cf go get f*cked.
Look at her last name. It might be self preservation.
 
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My dad used to leave cat food out overnight.

Goodness me that attracted every raccoon and possum within 20 miles to our back porch.

Possums are good animals, though. They can't get rabies and eat ticks.

Those sumbitches scare the crap out of me though. We had one in our garage a couple of summers ago. I was literally dressed like Dan Akroyd in "The Great Outdoors" trying to get it out. Just when I thought I had coaxed him out the backdoor of our garage, he made a u-turn on me. I scrambled back and tripped over who know's what trying to escape myself.

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can someone tell me why a person from Connecticut is getting an opinion piece in the dmr?

 

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raccoons are notorious for carrying rabies. we farmers are basically calling the raccoons in because of our crops and the grain that we have laying around, so its our fault they show up! When they tear into bags of feed or tear into other stuff its our fault too.

I would never go hunting for one on purpose, but yes, if they're sick, they need to be euthanized.

You're lucky they only get into your grain on your place. Around here, they used to go straight for the high-priced sacks of feed additive and also cat food, to the point where they ripped open the underbelly of the trunk on my little old Dodge Colt so that they could get to the food that I presumed was safely locked inside.

They also used to murder my chickens at night, which wouldn't have been so bad -can't blame an animal for trying to make a living - but they would take one bite and then move on to murder another one. At least a coyote will eat the whole chicken. Raccoons do the same for sweetcorn. They also maim and murder kittens (I am an eyewitness to that.). What I'm getting at is that sometimes, capital punishment is a deterrent, at least for that particular perpetrator.

As for the live trap, a poor possum once got caught in mine at the same time as the raccoon, and by morning, the racoon had ripped the possum's face off.