I was walking around the backyard yesterday and heard something in a tree,I looked up and found a new addition the the animals that like to call my backyard home, I figure he had just left his mother and is looking for his own territory.
I have a new Neighbor
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Who was that masked . . . critter?
Abbynormal
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that's your new neighbor! His name is Cooney!
Ozark Marine
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I evicted a Ground Hog yesterday from my backyard.
One shot of .177 Premier Destroyer 7.4gr to the brain group housing.
One shot of .177 Premier Destroyer 7.4gr to the brain group housing.
Not to be raining on your parade e3mrk, but I consider those things pests, and treat them as such any time I encounter them on my property.
Best of luck with your new wildlife addition if you choose to attempt some type of mutual coexistence on your property.
Best of luck with your new wildlife addition if you choose to attempt some type of mutual coexistence on your property.
My latest "run in" with a coon didn't go well. Early morning driving down the road at about 50 mph, Suddenly something low and furry darts across the road right in front of me. No time try to strattle it. Solid whap. Sorry about that and keep going knowing there was no surviving that hit and hoping it wasn't somebody's little dog. . Ha, wife's little car overheats. Hit lower corner and busted the radiator at its mount. AAA towed to shop and get company truck I am using for a short out of town job. Drove by on way back to motel. Big old boar coon dead right on side of road at that location. I would have rather used a 45 than than a radiator.
They are cute. They get into everything, the latch on something is just a minor challenge. The can rip up a fair sized dog.
Fishing trip, minnow bucket, lot left in evening, bucket well out in lake on rope. Morning comes bucket on beach empty. Coon tracks. More minnows, that night wire lid shut securely. Next morning no minnows. Wire untwisted. Think this guy was a professional minnow robber.
They are cute. They get into everything, the latch on something is just a minor challenge. The can rip up a fair sized dog.
Fishing trip, minnow bucket, lot left in evening, bucket well out in lake on rope. Morning comes bucket on beach empty. Coon tracks. More minnows, that night wire lid shut securely. Next morning no minnows. Wire untwisted. Think this guy was a professional minnow robber.
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..You'll find out. Come back in about a year from now and let us know how much you like your new neighbor.....nachogrande
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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO OUTSIDE.
If he aint bothering you, no need to bother him. Live & let live, they were here first. NO NEED to kill EVERY animal you see. OTOH he could be following you & monitoring your movements.
If he aint bothering you, no need to bother him. Live & let live, they were here first. NO NEED to kill EVERY animal you see. OTOH he could be following you & monitoring your movements.
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A couple nights ago I heard some banging in my bird feeder, put a flashlight on it and sure enough a coon was in it. The window was open, so I tried barking at it to scare it off; it just looked at me like I was nuts. Then my wife came over, and she tried barking at it. The coon ran like hell. Wife & I got a chuckle out of that.
Long ago the mrs rented a house next to the foothills and planted a vegetable garden.Neighbors told her not to bother with corn because of the raccoons,but she's stubborn.When they came for the corn she went out to chase them off.They chased her back in the house.It was their corn!
Gaffer
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I have had many bothering me and I live trapped them and sent them to parts far enough away that they did not come back. They can be vicious and one I caught in early evening made such a fuss in the live trap in the back of my truck I decided to take him for a ride about 1 AM. My son went with me and when we reached the drop off area he left his truck door open as we removed the cage and let the coon loose. He immediately ran down the side of the truck and tried to get back into the open door. It was pretty interesting for a few minutes until he realized his error and scurried off into the brush. We learned to keep the doors shut until the deed was done.
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One dog is OK but a pack of dogs, it is time to leave.
chaparrito
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He'll be moving his family into your trash dumpster next. Foul creatures.
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Hate them. They fight with cats all night and ruin camping trips
My son in law in Oregon had one in his back yard a few years back. I told him not to feed it as he would be sorry later. Sure enough he borrowed my pump 22 rifle & got 6 or 7 in the next few nights. He used those low velocity shells that don't make much noise as he lives in town. His cats & dogs were afraid to go into the backyard as the coons beat the stuffing out of them.
Their hands, as previously mentioned, are alarmingly dexterous. For that alone, I can almost kind of .... 'like'?....them. More a fascination, I guess. Careful though. Also as previously stated, they can cause major headaches in short order. On your guard about rabies. Skunks, coons, yotes, All frequent carriers.
nachogrande
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BROUGHT IT ON YOURSELF.
Keep your cats indoors (where they belong), and a clean campsite & no problems. When in THEIR WORLD no issues from me. IN MY WORLD causing trouble, = time for them to go. Not a problem, until they are.
Keep your cats indoors (where they belong), and a clean campsite & no problems. When in THEIR WORLD no issues from me. IN MY WORLD causing trouble, = time for them to go. Not a problem, until they are.
DocB
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I live on 3 acres with about a quarter acre fenced in outside my back door for the dogs. In 40 years, I have never had a problem. I actually keep an acre totally overgrown with a large deadfall on the front edge. Everything lives back there. . .rabbits, possums, armadillos, racoons, squirrels, deer, mice, rats, chipmunks, snakes of all kinds. I have never had a creature come inside the fence with the exception of a black or king snake. I just pick them up and relocate them if needed. . .don't want the dogs to hurt them.
This reminds me of during my misspent youth, when we lived in the middle of a subdivision but next to the last undeveloped building lot. Right at the boundary line between our lot and the still wooded building lot was a pile of leaves on top of a protruding small log. Somehow the log got shifted, creating a tunnel in the leaf pile. Pretty soon, in this subdivision, a possum took up residence in the leaf pile, and we have a photograph of the possum walking in our back yard like it owned the place. So one day Mom decided to go out to the leaf pile with some sliced baloney to feed the possum. She claimed it hissed at her, so she never went out to the leaf pile again. Just a nice memory of before she got stricken with rheumatoid arthritis and ALS.
