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You can relocate but must have PERMIASION from the property owner of where you relocate them. DNR does not want them on state property.
In addition if you dont relocate at least 50 miles from you, if you were their "nest" they will just come back.
Thus one good racoon is a dead raccon.
When we were little my grand mother's two brothers were great to go coon hunting with. Lay in the grass and listen to the hounds run, trail and tree. We'd be laying there watching for satellites while we listened. Not even being a teenager yet I got tree climbing duty if one needed to get flushed out, helped along with a sapling pole pushing from behind (me, not the coon!
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I purchased an “electric” bird feeder that keeps the squirrels, deer, and coons off of it. It is QUICKLY paying for itself in saved bird seed
Peanut butter and marshmallows in a live for the local racoons. Then dispatched with a quickness.
The cheapest smelliest cat food in a can you can find.
flyingsquirrel
Master
I am fortunate to have a pond close to drop a live trap into see how long they can hold their breath. Trap is nice and clean after also. Did you know an opposum will hold it's breath longer?
I did that with pineys. I pop coons any chance I get. I won't shoot opposums tho, unless they are causing trouble. Those ugly, smelly things are cool. I hear they don't get diseases and take care of a lot of stuff I don't want.
No I didn’t. But tried the same thing with a skunk where I used to work.. taylor university.. the skunk sprayed resulting in closing the swimming area because of the the skunk smell. I had bathed the skunk about an hour and a half before it opened and had removed the trap from the lake.. drove it down the road a bit and released bathed skunk . Didn’t know that there were houses hidden up a long lane close to there.. I played dumb when someone told me that a professor dog had killed a skunk and drug it into there garage
Dont kill the opposums. They are nature's garage disposal and ensure all the dead stuff gets eaten thus no disease for other animals or us. Let them do their job.
Question about the pond. Does drowning them not contaminate the water? Maybe not one but if you did that to multiple of them?
Your dog carries a 45?? That's impressive! I can't get our little Boston Terrier to even carry a .22. Just as well though, since she's pretty much blind.
flyingsquirrel
Master
The pond is 5 acres and 50' deep. No contamination. And I let the buzzards be the disposals. I do not leave the bodies in the pond or any waterway.
Your dog carries a 45?? That's impressive! I can't get our little Boston Terrier to even carry a .22. Just as well though, since she's pretty much blind.
you should see her holster....
Ah makes sense. So it's just like the 50gal water barrel then. If you were to leave the body IN the pond and let it decompose it would contaminate right?
flyingsquirrel
Master
Yes and illegal in Indiana to dispose in any waterway. And I know everyone here is a Legal Beagle.
This is reminding me of a Texas Department of Corrections picknick around about when I going into first grade. That tender barbecued coon had really long leg bones. And it didn't taste anything like Pawpaw's.
That's the same day a Special Forces vet turned TDC guard pulled me and my life vest out from under a tree root snag in a fast running creek. Whatever that man's name is, he saved my life. I still remember earlier that day seeing him (squat and powerful) swimming across there with a beer held up in each hand.
In retrospect I reckon southeast Texas was just the jungle he needed.
That's the same day a Special Forces vet turned TDC guard pulled me and my life vest out from under a tree root snag in a fast running creek. Whatever that man's name is, he saved my life. I still remember earlier that day seeing him (squat and powerful) swimming across there with a beer held up in each hand.
In retrospect I reckon southeast Texas was just the jungle he needed.
