Anyone ever relocate a raccoon?.

[Louie]

We occasionally have them in our yard but other then them trying to get in the garbage cans they dont cause a problem . However for the last three years we have a big female mountain lion hanging around. I have yet to see her but my neighbors on both sides have. Ive seen her prints and what looks to be 2 sets of cub prints in my yard but they are usually accompanied by mule deer tracks so i figure shes teaching her cubs to hunt.
Its just a thought , but maybe you could setup your pond so you can live in piece with the raccoons instead of relocating them. They are pretty entertaining to watch i cant resist leaving them out a few sugar cubes and a big pan of water ,talk about confused. lol

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OMG a Mt lion now that's something. I agree with you 100% about trying to live in peace with the raccoon but it has a real bad habit of pooping in my ponds and worse than that it digs up surrounding plants.

I have those 40 to 160 gallon "ponds" and few have those "soil sleeves" with plants and the raccoon if its a raccoon digs up the plants by 2 of the ponds and big pain. This one I didnt bother replanting as strikes this pond the most (cory cat breeding "pond") .

I think it might be going after beetle grubs and 5 lined skinks which live there.

Becarefull you don't go in your yard one day and meet that Mt lion ESP at night. I watch when animals attack and though rare they do attack.

Again I understand where your coming from about living with the wildlife but can't figure out a way to stop it from uprootng plants and using ponds as bathroom.

I tried coyote urine before and it didn't work.

 

[Peanut_Power]

They are pretty entertaining to watch i cant resist leaving them out a few sugar cubes and a big pan of water ,talk about confused. lol

I used to love doing that!! It is hilarious to watch!

You bet that possums can be caught. Here is the picture of one I caught that was eating all the cat food. They don't run very fast, so its really easy to catch them. Just grab their tail, then behind the head. Done deal.

Moved him about four miles away in some woods, fed him some tuna, which he loved, and let him go.

 

[Red Devil]

wow he has a great set of choppers..but overall looks sweet...but capturing him looks pretty risky to me..

 

[Louie]

I used to love doing that!! It is hilarious to watch!

You bet that possums can be caught. Here is the picture of one I caught that was eating all the cat food. They don't run very fast, so its really easy to catch them. Just grab their tail, then behind the head. Done deal.

Moved him about four miles away in some woods, fed him some tuna, which he loved, and let him go.

lol oh man thats wild. I would be torn to shreds and looking at those teeth it would be real bad lol.

What made you decide to try catching your first one with your hands ?

I sometimes watch on animal planet those exterminator shows and they use at min long thick heavy leather reinforced gloves and usually use those long poles.

You ever get bit?

 

[Peanut_Power]

That wasn't my first one, haha, I've caught about five or so like that. I mostly did it just for the heck of it.

I'm still determined to catch a skunk some day, but I'm gonna have to stock up on desmellers first before I try that one. LoL

Nope, never been bit yet. Snakes are a different story though!

 

[Red Devil]

That wasn't my first one, haha, I've caught about five or so like that. I mostly did it just for the heck of it.

I'm still determined to catch a skunk some day, but I'm gonna have to stock up on desmellers first before I try that one. LoL

Nope, never been bit yet. Snakes are a different story though!

by accident a skunk got into the have a heart cage and i opened the door and let him out... that was the sorry moment of my life.. it took weeks for me to be back to normal.. my husband would not let me in the truck to go to the stores for many days....lol don't do it!

 

[Peanut_Power]

 

[pacu mom]

A skunk got under our house and cut loose one night. We were practically gassed out of the house. After a while a person can't even smell that bad odor. I thought we had got rid of the smell. At work, a colleague smell "skunk" 1 1/2 corridors away from my office. It was very embarrassing.

 

[sick_lid]

Peanut your as nutty as a squirrel terd. Possums are like cracked out zombies that's crazy..

To the op, ever look into a dog? Where there's 1 racoon, there's bound to be more..

 

[fish junkie]

Bummer ur so far away, i have a friend that has hunting dogs. Its not very humane at all but i may need those dogs if that lion gets out of control they are actually trained to hunt bear and lions but he said they will chase off raccoons .