Save the raccoons!

1100011CS

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I don't mind raccoons.

What I hate are muskrats, they destroy my ponds. The second I see one swimming I run to garage, get the gun and shoot that ******. I think I've shot 12 over the last couple years.
Next time you shoot one can I have it or two? I'm taking up tanning and would like a couple to try.
 
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Acylum

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My Weiner dogs went after a possum one night. He laid down and played dead and they left him alone. After the dogs went back in the house I went back out and helped guide the possum out of the dogs fenced in area. The possum was scared shitless.

I had to have a talk with the dogs to tell them to leave possums alone so there will be less ticks in the yard.
I read an article just recently that they now say the possum’s reaction is more like a fainting goat’s than playing dead.
 
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JHUNSY

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Fun story:
One time I found a dead raccoon in a garden on the side of our house. Wondered if it got stuck under a stack of cement paving stones trying to stay warm in the extreme cold.

Anyways, didn’t find it until the snow and ground had thawed out when it was time to get the pavers moved and garden ready.. when I lifted that thing with a shovel to put into a bag, all of the guts came falling out.

It was by far the foulest thing I’ve smelled in my life.
 
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Not exactly sure.
Next time you shoot one can I have it or two? I'm taking up tanning and would like a couple to try.
I am trying to catch a couple. Dug a hole in a dirt floor in one of my sheds that I haven’t gotten the floor in yet. Have a live trap set so come ground hog day, it is trapped and dead. Can mail it to you live if you like.
 
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I had a raccoon jump out of a trash can at me when I was walking to Welch from campus (right on the corner of university and Welch). Scared the **** out of me. That's my contribution to this thread.
 
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StClone

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This Racketycoon got saved by the hairs of his...

Freeze things happen! Chilly raccoon becomes stuck to the railway by his testicle hair after temperatures plummet to -12C before railway workers free him using warm water and a shovel​


 

1100011CS

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I am trying to catch a couple. Dug a hole in a dirt floor in one of my sheds that I haven’t gotten the floor in yet. Have a live trap set so come ground hog day, it is trapped and dead. Can mail it to you live if you like.
Yeah, just throw it in a box and take it UPS.
 
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cycloner29

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I don't mind raccoons.

What I hate are muskrats, they destroy my ponds. The second I see one swimming I run to garage, get the gun and shoot that ******. I think I've shot 12 over the last couple years.

We blew up a beaver dam back in the day. Pretty cool to see
 

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we took over my wifes' grandpa's farm and he would constantly have old cat food out in the barn and other places. We've lived there 2 years and no one lived there for 3 years before us and I'm still finding random cans of tuna that were out in the barn.

we really had to clean up the place


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Raccoons like the tuna, but meth cookers love the ****.
 

VeloClone

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Those sumbitches scare the crap out of me though. We had one in our garage a couple of summers ago. I was literally dressed like Dan Akroyd in "The Great Outdoors" trying to get it out. Just when I thought I had coaxed him out the backdoor of our garage, he made a u-turn on me. I scrambled back and tripped over who know's what trying to escape myself.

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Back when I was in college we used to have big possums that would frequent our dumpster at Happy Joes. They loved to eat the garbage, especially pizza crust. One time we had a wisp of a waitress who came back in with a bag of trash. We asked her why she brought it back in. She said the possom wouldn't let her throw it in the dumpster. We laughed and went out there with a golf putter we had laying around. There on the edge of the dumpster was the biggest possum I had ever seen. When we started to approach it reared up on its hind legs threw its front legs up in the air and hissed at us. It was pretty menacing for a marsupial. It didn't want to be scared away so it took a whack or two from the putter to convince it to move along and come back later.
 
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VeloClone

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This Racketycoon got saved by the hairs of his...

Freeze things happen! Chilly raccoon becomes stuck to the railway by his testicle hair after temperatures plummet to -12C before railway workers free him using warm water and a shovel​


Make sure if you watch this video that you turn up the volume so you can hear the guy with his brief but insightful comments on the situation.
 

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Opinion: Do the right thing-- protect raccoons--ban automobiles! LOL​

 

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