Killing raccoons in the city - Toronto

Use marshmallows for bait in a live trap, that will take care of cats and squirrels getting in the way, they won't pay attention but raccoons can't resist marshmallows. Once caught (not really hard to do) it's up to you but a friend of mine just drove them to a distant park and released them. Make sure it's distant enough lol across a river or two and some highways is ideal. :)
 
OkayShooter said:
You contact animal control? I know here you can rent traps.
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I did.. They won't do it on private property. Private companies will release within 1km and the raccoon will come back and tear up some new shingles. Can't trap and take to a vet for killing both due to hazmat issues and due to no vet allowing raccoons in their offices, and that's assuming you can find one who would kill a raccoon. Can't use a crossbow, can't use a gun (that would be dangerous on this property, as well)......
 
Gotta go the live trap route in the city. Saves the mess, noise from the neighbours.

sardines in the live trap. Then it's up to you if you take him for a swim in the trap or drive outside of the city and dispatch. I recommend not getting coon blood on the trap as smart ones will be cautious after that. Likely be a daily occurence for a while, Get them all now, before they all multiply.
 
BoogerChew said:
CO2 is a no no. Allowed in small rodents. Not is something that size. OSPCA would be all over you and it would be mean.
Live Trap and then Killing could also be concidered illegal. If you trapped them they are no longer damaging your property so you have no reason to kill them.

You are in the City. If anyone finds out you killed anything the Po Po will be knocking at your door.
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Rightfully so! Only a complete ####### would suffocate something in CO2.

Reminder: Suffocating in CO2 gives the victim the sensation of .. well suffocating, when suffocating in other gases, e.g. CO, the victim does not notice it and just falls asleep (forever)..


So if you must kill something then do it so the victim feels no pain
 
bunny said:
CO2 ? Water ??? whats wrong with a good old tiger torch, you easterners gotta learn to think outside of the box.
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Several years ago our neighbour hired a company in to remove some squirrels from the attic. When the guy was leaving I asked how he disposed of the vermin. He told me he could not release them more than 500 metres from the trapped location. I'm not sure if that really was policy or still is, just saying this is what I was told.
Fast forward a few years and I thought I'd just call and ask what the fee was to remove vermin from an attic. Just to show up and give an estimate was over $100 then the removal was based on numbers, location, difficulty with access etc. The fee would easily top $400 and go up from there.
 
Many years ago when I lived just outside Kingston, we had raccoons everywhere. A neighbour would live trap them, take them into the garage and use a 22 cap to dispose of them. Hardly any noise. Do you have a 22?

I now live in Vancouver and of course face the same sort of legal stuff as you. I had a raccoon mom and 3 kits move into my shed. I ended up buying a sonic sound emitter from Amazon that gives off predator calls. Within a matter of minutes the family left with the mom giving me the evil eye. They never came back.
 
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keith mokry said:
Live trap then dispose of item when nobody around
Have policy at work that must remove item and let go 50 km from site
Animal is verrry slow if any moving after release. Don’t wanna be caught letting a live one go around here
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Live trap them and then teach them how to swim in the trash can.
Already to many people know about this , so plan and act accordingly.
You mught wanna check the Hunting Regs for your regional unit as well.
While it might be legal to dispatch problem vermin it might just not be legal to do it at this time of the year.

Rob
 
The Pro’s use a jab stick with acetone—and even a skunk won’t smell. Poke ‘em in the lungs. You still have a body to dispose of but I never found that much of a problem.
 
TRaTSeRiF said:
That would be several hours of driving with a distressed, disease-carrying animal in the carpeted trunk of my sedan (no need for a truck in Moronto). Since the mother doesn't look like she pupped yet, I'd say now's a good time to trap and kill, if legally possible. Would using the CO2 method get me in legal trouble via animal cruelty laws?
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Well there’s always hand to hand combat...

Seriously though, just lay a garbage bag in your trunk under the trap, then put a blanket over the cage. They calm right down. They’re not very smelly critters so do t worry about that too much.
 
In my buddy's barn I would hit them between the eyes with my Diana model 34 .177. The reason I didn't use a shotgun or .22 was I didn't want to damage his barn. The RWS hunting pellet entered the skull and bounced around in there. They would have to be collected from the rafters because they died instantly. PAL pellet gun is a pretty quiet way of killing vermin I doubt the city folk would know what the sound is, just don't let them see you.
 
retiredsaf said:
Both of the suggestions you have made are unlawful. Several people have been charged and convicted for drowning raccoons and skunks as they are not water animals and it has been deemed cruelty to them by the courts.(Especially in Toronto). It has always been unlawful to use poison in Ontario on wild animals. CO2 in an enclosed box would work also.
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I'm close to calling BS on this. I investigated this a few years back and killing them was a green light under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Do it discreetly and quietly and nobody the wiser.

The kilometer thing is a joke - unless there is a barrier like a highway/river to reduce the odds of them getting back.
 
As Kodiakjack mentioned above, transporting coons is not a problem except there is some minimum distance requirement that I don't remember now. You need a big garbage can to fit a live coon trap.

You got a problem when your set to catch coons and you catch skunk, had a trapper's license but let it expire. You have to be weely careful with em skunks and sometimes they refuse to leave the trap so you have to have a poker stick or try scaring them but sometimes you just gotta wait it out.

I caught many feral cats in large Havaheart coon traps and possums and once a dog for heave's sake. Did not know what it was at first but it managed to squeeze in so there was absolutely no room, hope to find that Polaroid picture. Let him out while on top of the truck and found out he was a friendly and ended up playing with him for a while before he went on his way. We laughed so hard it was hilarious.

There was this old rich lady in a very affluent part of town and she refused to pay me unless she could keep my expensive live trap ...
 
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