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gitrdun said:
Raccons on the other hand just seem like a cute cudly friendly animal. Maybe that's just my wrong westerly impression.
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I should have taken pictures of the damage one did in our tack room when it ate through the bottom of the door. Also the feces carry organisms harmful to animals and humans and the damn things #### all over the place. In the trees they get a pass. If they get into the barn they are trapped and shot.

Trap or corner one and they are not cuddly, friendly or cute. They can be mean little buggers and while I don't make it a practice to go after them if they come around and cause trouble then I don't put up with it.
 
gitrdun said:
OK, I'll give you that...:)

Our "pests" at home are badgers, not raccons. We don't have them out west. My blue healer dog "jake" once got a hold of a badger. Now, badgers are deadly, rabid or not, they are just mean, ornery and bad ass. My dog has this thing by the neck, I ran to the house and got the 12 gauge. By the time I got back to the fight, the badger had lost the fight, and I finished him off. When I told my buds that Jake had killed a badger, they were in disbelief, what a MF dog. When Jake was alive, no one, but I mean no one entered our property without the "bosse's" approval. Raccons on the other hand just seem like a cute cudly friendly animal. Maybe that's just my wrong westerly impression.
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Ummmmm, yes we do have them out west. Their number aren't out of control and they are smart, so maybe you have just never seen one or maybe they aren't right in your exact location.. I myself have seen plenty in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

I have seen a few dogs kill badgers, one of the last I saw was an 11 year old Lab.

They are cute, they are not cuddly or friendly. On top of all this they have opposable thumbs which is part of the reason they can get into so much trouble.

**Do not take what I posted as being in a condescending or "know it all" tone, it is not meant meant to sound as such**

Personally, any animal in the varmint/pest category that I run into dies, regardless.
 
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Farlsincharge said:
Ummmmm, yes we do have them out WEST. Their number aren't out of control and they are smart, so maybe you have just never seen one or maybe they aren't right in your exact location.. I myself have seen plenty in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

I have seen a few dogs kill badgers, one of the last I saw was an 11 year old Lab.

They are cute, they are not cuddly or friendly. On top of all this they have opposable thumbs which is part of the reason they can get into so much trouble.
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Perhaps with age, my persectives are changing. We've had barn swallows build a nest over our back door. Years ago, I would have destoyed the nest. Now, I welcome it and enjoy watching their family grow. Maybe I['m growing softer, I'm not ashamed of it.
 
Claybuster said:
I should have taken pictures of the damage one did in our tack room when it ate through the bottom of the door. Also the feces carry organisms harmful to animals and humans and the damn things s**t all over the place. In the trees they get a pass. If they get into the barn they are trapped and shot.

Trap or corner one and they are not cuddly, friendly or cute. They can be mean little buggers and while I don't make it a practice to go after them if they come around and cause trouble then I don't put up with it.
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Just this past May, my buddy a few doors down from my house was having trouble with a leaking roof. Because he is afraid of heights, I went up the ladder to take a look. Racoons had torn through two layers of shingles AND ripped apart the plywood underneath (I mean the hole was HUGE) an made itself a nice nest in the rafters. I took a walk around to the back portion of the roof at the rear of the house, and there was a SECOND hole where it did the same thing.
 
Neigbour needs a new dog!
This one crushes their sculls then ripps the nuts of the males and eats them. One doesn't dare take the dead coon away until this ritual is complete;);)
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seems like you need to discover .22 CBs :)
ive come out at night a few times, shot the raccoon worrying at the garbage on the deck, chucked it behind the compost bin for later burial, and went back to sleep. all without anyone in the house or the neighbors waking up.

sometimes the remains arent there in the morning, which saves me from digging a hole.
 
gitrdun said:
OK, I'll give you that...:)

Our "pests" at home are badgers, not raccons. We don't have them out west. My blue healer dog "jake" once got a hold of a badger. Now, badgers are deadly, rabid or not, they are just mean, ornery and bad ass. My dog has this thing by the neck, I ran to the house and got the 12 gauge. By the time I got back to the fight, the badger had lost the fight, and I finished him off. When I told my buds that Jake had killed a badger, they were in disbelief, what a MF dog. When Jake was alive, no one, but I mean no one entered our property without the "bosse's" approval. Raccons on the other hand just seem like a cute cudly friendly animal. Maybe that's just my wrong westerly impression.
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I have twice seen 'coons here in Calgary. Once a family of 5 was in someone's garage, and was wandering about the neighborhood. The other time I saw a family of 3. They are here, just not as plentiful.
 
My wife's aunt took her son's 1800$ russian something or other(looks like a big black poodle) for a walk in the early morning , dog spots a raccoon, raccoon leads dog to water, raccoon goes into water, dog follows, raccoon drowns dog !! When they told me I said no way , i don't beleive it , then the wife and i looked it up on the net, sure enough , raccoons have been known to drown dogs and other animals , big as a cougar. They lead the predator to water , then jump on their head and drown them. As cute as they look, they are nasty devious lil critters. I once got into a standoff with a raccoon, as to who had the trail.......after a lot of growling, spitting, and hissing, the raccoon won . They do make great hats tho ;)
 
I think raccoon has a season. Oct. 15 to Jan. 15 in all parts of Ontario, excluding WMU 51. You need a small game license, and a license to hunt raccoons at night if you plan to hunt them at night. For night hunting, you can only use a rimfire, and I think .17hmr and .22wmr can't be used for night hunting. I think if it's a pest, you can shoot it. Keep in mind, the above I'm unsure of.
 
just forget the gunslinging and trap the bugger, then drown it, eat it or let it go.

and since everyone is telling 'coon stories heres mine;

fellah i worked for as a teen was having alot of trouble with raccoons ripping the garbage up on his back porch. so one night he told me to bring my 22 and head up to his place at dusk. so here we are, sitting at the kitchen table having a few drinks, with my 22 cooey and his 22 magnum, its now getting late and his wife and kids are in bed. we hear the coon getting into the can, and steve slides open the patio door and has it.

his wife comes flying down the stairs, in a rage about the gunshot, kids woke up screaming. then she notices that although he opened the patio door, he neglected to open the screen and shot some holes through it. i slipped outa there while she was reaming him out. :D
 
Raccoons coming out in the day isn't terribly uncommon this time of year, as the mothers nurse the pups she often needs to leave her den to drink, hydrate for nursing. However, in your case you are dealing with a coon with distemper, it needs to be killed. Bury it deep. Make sure there are no feces laying around for other animals, especially domestic dogs to get in to, it can kill them.
Dispatching a nuisance animal in Ontario is legal, but only on your own property, going to your neighbors to shoot it is illegal, unless your neighbor is a direct relative.
Trap it (boiled egg) and kill it, it may not be interested in food because of it's disease so a fishing net would work fine too. Just be sure to make it dead and bury it, bury it's crap too, that animal is bad news.
 
There are racoons in B.C. as well,more so at the coast.I've only seen one in the interior.Used to see a lot of them when I lived in ontario.I don't think we have porcupines though,I haven't seen one since I left back east same with skunks.
 
I have some raccons here in westbank, and my grandma in Oliver had skunks.

I have never seen a skunk here, and never a racoon there.

I have seen a couple badgers up around fairview mountain golf course as well as a wild boar. But none of those things anywhere here in Westbank.

I have seen quite a few porcupines growing up in the south Okanagan, but not nearly as many as you see around Prince Rupert on the rare sunny day.
Usually quite flat on the highway, they are bad at the highway.
 
Red foreman said:
There are racoons in B.C. as well,more so at the coast.I've only seen one in the interior.Used to see a lot of them when I lived in ontario.I don't think we have porcupines though,I haven't seen one since I left back east same with skunks.
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No shortage of raccoon, skunk, or porcupine in Alberta (ranges vary, of course).
 
This one's a no brainer, if it were my neighbours cottage, it would already be dead! No if's and's or but's! Out would come the 10/22, or 12 guage, yeah the 12 guage is louder, and it sends that ever so important "stay the hell away" message to any other critters that may bear witness to the massacre!

One must do what is necessary when exterminating pests!

For instance:

I once had to take out a squirrel that was giving up my position to the local ground squirrels that I was hunting in my parent's yard. The squirrel WAS one of my dads favorite critters as he fed him nuts all the time, he understood that in order to get rid of the ground squirrels, the one who was warning them must be dispatch before the task at hand could be taken care of! The ground squirrels are now all dead, another squirrel has taken up residence so my dad's not out a friend. At least till next time!
 
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