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Seeking advice/knowledge - Dealing with Raccoons.
Dartful Dodger:
It's a pain to move them. They’ll pee as soon as you get them in the back of your truck, and you could get in trouble for transporting/releasing them.
It's better to drown them while they are still in the cage. No blood and the cage is more or less ready for the next set.
ChadTower:
Two ways.
Short term: put a predator there. Dogs are perfect.
Long term: Get rid of their food source.
Until one or both of those things happen, and possibly for a while, the raccoons will remain.
Raleigh:
I will end up getting a dog closer to the time I will be living out here full time.
It will be impossible to get rid of their food source here. There are corn fields all around, there are ~50 fruit trees on the property and besides traveling to the neighbors all of their local diet on the property is from nature.
Hopefully once I eliminate the current population I don't continue to get new ones. I grew up out here and don't recall having an issue with them, it just appears to become a haven during it's vacancy.
ChadTower:
Then you're not going to eliminate the population. The best you can do is displace it onto a neighbor's property, which of course they're going to try their damnedest to put it back onto yours.
The only real potential solution short of wiping them out is dogs. Not a dog, multiple dogs, with hunter tendencies and proactive rabies vaccinations.
RayB:
--- Quote from: Guaranos on June 05, 2007, 06:48:45 pm ---Your best bet is to surprise them by running up and grabbing their tails. They get scared and run off.
--- End quote ---
I tried that with a squirrel once. It did not run off.
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