One less Raccoon in the world! (Add your funny nuisance animal killing story)

[PegLeg45]

A great story, and a lesson on why there are times when one just admits defeat and buys extra cat food.Hell if they're not knocking over the trash or shitting in the pool, I actually like racoons. However, I don't know how it is in Gainsville, but here in Palm Beach county, you can borrow a have-a-heart trap from animal control for free. You can make a midnight delivery to your boss' house for the price of a can of sardines.
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And that makes it easier and safer to club 'em and save ammo.   

[fightingquaker13]

And that makes it easier and safer to club 'em and save ammo.  

I was thinking more about a hose, trash can and the last scene from Titantic, less risk of getting bitten that way, but whatever works for you. Actually when I was in grad school, a friend with an outdoor cat had a similar possum problem. We rented the have a heart, and with the connivance of a disgruntled janitor, who had a taste for the herb, which my friend graciously gave to him, said beast was locked in the faculty mail room late one night. It seemed imprudent to be there early when the door was opened at 8am, but rumour has it that she got her money's worth of chaos out of that 1/4 ounce.
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[tombogan03884]

 When I was a kid the town cop used to sleep in his cruiser in front of the laundry mat on the town square. One summer night a couple locals threw a skunk in with him  

[brosometal]

A great story, and a lesson on why there are times when one just admits defeat and buys extra cat food.Hell if they're not knocking over the trash or shitting in the pool, I actually like racoons. However, I don't know how it is in Gainsville, but here in Palm Beach county, you can borrow a have-a-heart trap from animal control for free. You can make a midnight delivery to your boss' house for the price of a can of sardines.
FQ13

There are quite a few raccoons here and I live in the middle of the city.  If I baited, I could open up my own Daniel Boone hat-shop.

Another house I lived in had a family of raccoons that lived in the attic. They were a lot less of a problem.  They just peeled back the soffit vents and occasionally you could hear them scurry around and it kept the other rodents at bay.  When I was recruited to cat-ownership the raccoon issue came into the light for me.  BBs are more of a challenge and I don't have to clean up carcasses. It seem to do the trick at present.  However, if one ever oversteps the ROEto be an actual nuisance, he will be dispatched forthwith.  Gunfire, even in the .22 variety in my neighborhood would bring unwanted authoritative type attention.  Times that there has been a discharged weapon in the vicinity (that I would know nothing about, by the way) it has been on a strategical holiday or celebration (National Championship Celebrations, the Fourth, etc.)  I do have a threaded barrel Mosquito and plan on eventually getting a muffler that I can trade between it and my 10/22.  Then Katie-barr-the-door.  I will just need everyone's hat size and an address.  

[fightingquaker13]

There are quite a few raccoons here and I live in the middle of the city.  If I baited, I could open up my own Daniel Boone hat-shop.

Another house I lived in had a family of raccoons that lived in the attic. They were a lot less of a problem.  They just peeled back the soffit vents and occasionally you could hear them scurry around and it kept the other rodents at bay.  When I was recruited to cat-ownership the raccoon issue came into the light for me.  BBs are more of a challenge and I don't have to clean up carcasses. It seem to do the trick at present.  However, if one ever oversteps the ROEto be an actual nuisance, he will be dispatched forthwith.  Gunfire, even in the .22 variety in my neighborhood would bring unwanted authoritative type attention.  Times that there has been a discharged weapon in the vicinity (that I would know nothing about, by the way) it has been on a strategical holiday or celebration (National Championship Celebrations, the Fourth, etc.)  I do have a threaded barrel Mosquito and plan on eventually getting a muffler that I can trade between it and my 10/22.  Then Katie-barr-the-door.  I will just need everyone's hat size and an address.  

A decent .22 cal pellet rifle will do it (850 fps or better). You just have to take close range head shots.Its like hunting with a bow, a lot of things that are greenlit with a .270 are redlights with a bow. Ditto the pellet gun. No noise no fuss, and pretty good on toads as well. Never shot a coon, but my RWS 34 (about $125 when I bought it, lord knows now, works great and is very accurate for a no frills sporter.
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My hat size is 7 1/4"

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[bjc1369]

We used to let our cats in the garage by leaving the door pulled up a few inches.  That’s where we fed them and where they slept.  Our 2 cats were neutered females.  A fully functional Tom started visiting, checking out the gals and eating their food.  That was bad enough, but as tom cats do, he started marking his territory.  Big time el stinko.

I started setting the garage door opener so I could push the button and it would close and often trapped old Tom.  First I just roughed him up a bit hoping he would get the idea.  But he didn’t.  Then I started beating him with a 2x2 or a mop handle.  Actually broke both “roughening him up a bit.”  He left the garage limping several times, but very much alive.  This went on for a while, but he always came back, and continued to piss on everything.

Back then, I did my reloading in the garage and the smell was bad enough, but then he started using my box of brass as his litter box; lost about 500 rounds of .41 mag brass.  I felt the end was near for old Tom.  One night I was pulling out of my driveway and saw him under the streetlight catching bugs.  I hit the gas and ran over him.  I know I hit him because I drove a Ford Fiesta at the time and could feel the bump as I ran over him.  He escaped into the storm sewer, most likely limping again, but he still came back.  I even sprayed him with red paint hoping that if he had a real home, the owner would get the idea that old Tom was up to no good.  Finally, I trapped him in the garage, beat the crap out of him, and put him in a big box.

There used to be a shooting range on the outskirts of Austin near a subdivision named Jester Estates.  The shooting range had been there for years and Jester Estates came along later.  As would be expected, the good folks of Jester Estates did not like the shooting range.  They got the local bleeding hearts from the TV news to show how bad they had it.  One joker held up a bullet he said punched a hole through his screen and fell between the screen and a sliding glass door.  It evidently did not crack the glass.  The news guys ate up his story and condemned the shooting range, which closed shortly thereafter.

Anyway, that’s where I dropped off old Tom, right in the middle of Jester Estates.  I hope he’s still alive and enjoying the bounty of his new ‘hood and I hope the good folks of Jester Estates are enjoying his company.

[shooter32]

Sounds like old Tom had 9 lives.

[bjc1369]

Sounds like old Tom had 9 lives.

Yeah, but he only had a couple left after he moved to Jester Estates.

[Pathfinder]

We used to let our cats in the garage by leaving the door pulled up a few inches.  That’s where we fed them and where they slept.  Our 2 cats were neutered females.  A fully functional Tom started visiting, checking out the gals and eating their food.  That was bad enough, but as tom cats do, he started marking his territory.  Big time el stinko.

I used to do the same thing on the ranch - until the feral tom showed up and just beat the holy snot out of my toms. His fate via the "have a heart" was less gentle than your tom's - he died of lead poisoning.

Also had a family of raccoons discover the cat's food - they also departed this life with the same illness. The momma made me fear for my fingers when I picked up the cage.

Then there was the skunk . . .

[JSC3ATLCSO]

Then there was the skunk . . .

They just don't make a stick that is long enough