Raccoons!

FOG said:
I recently found out that in BC, Raccoons are "protected" as are many other annoying wild animals . You can be charged for interfering with them.
Also read the story of the Manitoba woman who was fined and sent to court for harassing a Canada goose she was trying to avoid.
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They are vermin.
Regardless of what some stupid law says, kill them.
I always have, always will.
 
fred0000 said:
I got about 6 tearing up my yard every morning around 5am, was thinking live traps and relocating as i dont live in the sticks
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I live in BC. Had raccoons in my yard. I went to buy a trap and met a Conservation Officer in the store who told me that it was illegal to relocate raccoons. If you trap them your only choice is to kill them. You may as well shoot them right off.
 
Here in Winnipeg, the Poulins exterminator person I hired, told me that they had to euthenize the racoons they caught, and that it would cost me $100 or more per raccoon they caught, on top of the fee for them supplying and monitoring the trap. They caught none after a week, so I dropped their service and bought my own traps, both live and conibear. I didn't catch it either. Too much natural food available for a raccoon to be desperate enough to enter the trap for cat food, marshmellows, suet, sardines and whatever else I tried. I drove it out of my attic with a Sony sound bar, playing the rock channel, and a Casio keyboard playing Rick Astley. Just about drove me out of the house. I suspect it was the 80's pop music that finally did them in.
 
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If your not willing to kill them yourself, hire someone who will. Otherwise you will never solve the problem, or just make them someone else's problem
 
fred0000 said:
I got about 6 tearing up my yard every morning around 5am, was thinking live traps and relocating as i dont live in the sticks
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If they are tearing up your lawn then you may have grubs and it will keep attracting them. I had this problem a few years back, getting rid of the racoons was easy one I dealt with the grubs, which was a whole other problem on its on.
 
I thought a live trap was a good business opportunity. Who doesn’t have a ####ty ex or boss to get back at? No customers. Went back to shooting.

Edit. I’m obviously joking. If you put a coon in a ex’s car or house, leave my damn name out of it.
 
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There is more then one reason people used to wear coonskin hats.... come out to investigate a noise wearing a coonskin hat and they might think twice about coming back..... :)



The first step in any animal intrusions is to remove any man made"habitat" and other attractants..... after that, "It's on!"
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Marshmellows - they can't resist them. Mini ones stuck on the trigger plate and some in a tuna can zip tied to the back of the trap and a trail of them leading to the trap. CCI quiet and into the green bin. Sixty-eight in the past three and a half years.
 
5 in a live trap and 1 in dog proof traps as well. Anyone tried calling them? Watched a few videos on that.
 
KLS said:
Raccoons are a terrible nuisance in our neck of the woods. Any tips or tricks to reduce their numbers?

They eventually get wise to dog proof traps as well as live traps.
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I live in the city where they yanked the soffit off and lived in my attic. I used a dog-proof trap with a doggie cookie in it. Worked like a charm and got two of the nasty critters.

They hissed at me which was a bad move on their part. They both got the bat and they are in coon heaven.
 
Here's how they got into my attic:

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And this is my attempt at blocking the entry. 040 aluminum. As yet untested. Deck screws into the house side. Upper screws have now been replaced with rivets.

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Callee said:
Raccoons definitely do get smart to the traps if they have the opportunity to get caught in one more than once! That's the problem with the cash and release crowd: they are just creating new super raccoons that have experienced the traps and therefore know to avoid them.

I had a horrible raccoon problem in my shop, they were just destroying everything. I talked to him more experience Hunter at the start, and he assured me that I definitely had more than one or two raccoon. I got a live trap which I bait with whatever leftovers are in the fridge, and before the problem was resolved I went through over 30 raccoon!

The bottom line is you need to trap them and kill them, there really is no other way.

If you live in one of those pus sy towns where you can't shoot them, there are other ways.
I have never done anything but shoot them, a 22 hollow point shot to the Head is quick and humane. I've heard people recommend dropping the live trap in a barrel of water to drown them, but I've heard many more people report that that is a slow and inhumane death, and I have heard of people being charged by The Humane Society for doing that.
If I wasn't able to shoot, the other method I have heard of is to construct a gas box. Just make a small plywood box just a little bit bigger than your live trap, put a door on one end, and a hose intake on the other end that can connect easily to your car's exhaust. Slide the live trap in, close the door, connected to your car, and run the motor for a little bit. There are plenty of instructions on the internet that tell you how to do this in more detail. I've never done it, but everything I have heard says that it is a nice Humane death for the raccoon, as unlike drowning, they do not sense that there's anything wrong, they just quietly go to sleep and don't wake up.
Good luck, but just be prepared, because odds are you have a more serious raccoon problem than you realize.
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drowning in a barrel and gas chamber your a piece of work
 
On my friend’s farm the live trap and the CCI Stinger accounts for about 40 coons a year.
Also figure out what trees they like and drive under it with a 12 gauge several times a week, new families keep adopting the same trees. This accounts for many more too.
 
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