So I have this raccoon breaking into my back porch...

[JACKSONFREAK]

There has to be a local "pest animal" collector. We have racoons in our attic almost every year. It's insane. Im afraid to go up there unarmed. lol Luckily itstays to the area above the front porch. And cant get ito the main attic that leads to the upstairs bedrooms. We had a guy Trapper Joe but he died. We had a 'coon at the time he passed and we still have a trap. But im not sure what to do with the critter after i trap it. So its still in my garage at this point. We need to sell the house acordint to moms will so i have to get rid of it sooner or later. And seal the foundation under the porch where he gets in. But yeah there has to be a local guy to use for this very thing. Ask a local wild life facility or a vet or pet store or even do the easy thing and check the phone book.
Gil

[Vass]

My Dad used to catch whatever was annoying him in a have a heart and then shoot it while it was trapped. He rarely missed in such circumstances.

Now he and I are both pussies. Don't know what happened as the years went by. I corked a groundhog that was terrorizing my Mom down at their place a few years ago. Popped him with a .223 from the bathroom window. Fucker was flopping around like mad. My Dad heard the shot & went running onto the back yard with one of my old little league bats. By the time I got there he was hammering this thing's head as hard as he could, and he's in pretty good shape. The ground was so soft though that it wasn't doing the job.

So there I am screaming at my old man, "HIT IT HARDER!" and hes' going, "I AM!". Finally he ran into the shed, got an 8x8 post and pile-drove it into the fucker. That finally ended it.

I took a look at where I got him- It was a really decent shot, not that it was from any great distance. Went in top of the neck, blew out the entire throat area, big mess. Somehow he kept going.

We were really rattled over it, and I felt horrible for weeks, like really bad. I won't hurt a thing anymore. Not sure why that happened. When I was a kid I used to cap blue jays and shit like that all the time. I wouldn't even think about it now.

As we age, our pussy-streaks grow. Really weird.

That's not to say that I wouldn't do it again- The thing had built its tunnel under the deck and was aggressive towards my Mom any time she went into the back yard- at one point it just sat there I guess making noises at her, blocking her route back into the house. So you do what you gotta do, but man, I felt like real shit about it.


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[texasfury]

catch him, and drop it off somewhere miles away

[Musician78]

I may get some pepperspray and give him a dose of that. I would imagine it wouldn't want a second dose... this may keep him away.

[leftybob]

Is he back every day ?

[Musician78]

Is he back every day ?

No. Quite often though.

[RacerX]

Well, what happened?

Well, Musician? How bout an update?

[GTarman68]

set a live trap, catch him, sit the trap in front of the Exhaust pipe on your vehicle w/ it running, it doesn't take long.. This is VERY effective on Skunks too..But you have to be VERY careful w/ the skunks..have cinder blocks around the entire cage, except the front door. back the truck up to it.. If you don't want to kill it, find a local Coon Hunter, they will take it off your hands to train their Dogs w/..

[ekalb09]

They have a built-in glory holes for god sake!

Oh my.

[Grandturk]

If you don't want to kill it, find a local Coon Hunter, they will take it off your hands to train their Dogs w/..

Remind me not to go rafting anywhere near where you live...

[Musician78]

Well, Musician? How bout an update?

I borrowed a CO2 BB gun and pelted him about 11 times one night. He was gone for about a week and came back.

Well I rented a live trap for two days.. second day he came back and got the bait without getting trapped.

A couple of days later while I was sleeping I heard a ruckus out there. So I went to look and saw 2 raccoons. Lovely. I grabbed my .22 and shot one as he was leaving, but he still got away. This was at 3 or so in the morning. A .22 is actually loud at that time of night. I shut off the lights and picked up the shell casing and went back to bed, hoping there wasn't a knock on the door. Thankfully there wasn't.

Finally I bought a live trap, because I was seriously running out of options... I can't keep firing a gun around here.... someone is bound to get pissed.

I ended up catching 2 over the next week. Both times I put the trap outside and while I was at work, the wife's grandfather relocated them about 10 miles away. Which is good because I really didn't want them to be killed. Haven't seen them since.

I know... long story with semi anticlimactic ending. They are really cute and cuddly animals but fukkin pains in the butt.

[atomic charvel guy]

There were racoons in queens and long island, they'd come out the night before the morning the garbage would be picked up. You'd come home stumbling from the bar around 4 a.m. and there they were tearing into the garbage and making a mess.
Arrogant fukks too, they'd look at you with a "hey this our garbage get the fukk out of here kinda look" , unbelievable.

[Grandturk]

Arrogant fukks too, they'd look at you with a "hey this our garbage get the fukk out of here kinda look" , unbelievable.

Probably from Long Island, then.

[Musician78]

Arrogant fukks too, they'd look at you with a "hey this our garbage get the fukk out of here kinda look" , unbelievable.

ROFL!!! Yup! This is certainly true.

[Trussrod]

I might have to rent a have a heart trap... they cost 55 bucks to buy from the hardware store.

You can buy one at Harbor Freight for 20 bucks on sale. I bought one years ago and it still works well.