What do raccoons do that's so bad?
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Possums don't bother me (they do eat the vegetables in my garden) but raccoons are nasty, aggressive rabies carriers and garage can marauders. Good riddance.
Ah. We don't have them wild here, so I don't know what they're like.
Quote: zooo @ December 17 2010, 7:45 PM GMTWhat do raccoons do that's so bad?
I don't know.
I'm in the AA.
Sometimes you'll go outside to throw out some trash and you'll notice that the garbage can is shaking violently. You look inside and there's a crazed raccoon trying furiously to escape. They're fairly large, have claws and sharp teeth and are known to carry rabies, so it's safer to shoot the critter than free him.
Quote: DaButt @ December 17 2010, 8:02 PM GMTit's safer to shoot the critter than free him.
Not for the critter.
Stay out of my trash and I won't shoot you.
Quote: DaButt @ December 17 2010, 8:02 PM GMTSometimes you'll go outside to throw out some trash and you'll notice that the garbage can is shaking violently. You look inside and there's a crazed raccoon trying furiously to escape. They're fairly large, have claws and sharp teeth and are known to carry rabies, so it's safer to shoot the critter than free him.
You could say the same thing about our foxes I suppose, though I doubt that you would ever get bitten by a fox if you let it be.
There have been cases where they have attacked human babies left out in their prams to get some sun an not monitored closely.
One nice thing about the small amount of snow that I have here now is that I can see if the foxes visited my garden overnight. On the last snow I found out that they actually come in from the main road, drink from the fish pond, wander around the garden for a while and then leave by the same route. They only come in the dead of night and I do hear them barking/yapping some nights.
Quote: billwill @ December 18 2010, 1:26 AM GMTYou could say the same thing about our foxes I suppose, though I doubt that you would ever get bitten by a fox if you let it be.
There have been cases where they have attacked human babies left out in their prams to get some sun an not monitored closely.
One nice thing about the small amount of snow that I have here now is that I can see if the foxes visited my garden overnight. On the last snow I found out that they actually come in from the main road, drink from the fish pond, wander around the garden for a while and then leave by the same route. They only come in the dead of night and I do hear them barking/yapping some nights.
<3 Yes, I too have heard the strange gutteral call of the vixen!, left out scraps, they must be starving, food gone, no pad marks.. bloody magpies!?
Quote: billwill @ December 18 2010, 1:26 AM GMTThey only come in the dead of night and I do hear them barking/yapping some nights.
You should hear what a pack of coyotes sounds like when it rips a small dog or cat to pieces. 
Quote: DaButt @ December 18 2010, 8:02 AM GMTYou should hear what a pack of coyotes sounds like when it rips a small dog or cat to pieces.
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Quote: dellas @ December 19 2010, 3:54 AM GMT
SA/TX/USA
Foxes are scum I may get a pond just to drown them, except I suspect a shotgun would be more satisfying
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Quote: sootyj @ December 19 2010, 10:19 AM GMTFoxes are scum I may get a pond just to drown them, except I suspect a shotgun would be more satisfying
Why are you so foxist', have they ever attacked you or your family?, or maybe youre a farmer.