Image
Aug 6, 2014 9:41 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
We have always had trouble with raccoons getting our eggs, chickens, and guineas. But, this last one has been especially sneaky. Doesn't even leave footprints. Well, we finally caught it. It's in a nasty mood, too. We are going 1/2 hour away, and will release it. My apologies to those of you that live there. Rolling my eyes.

Thumb of 2014-08-06/texaskitty111/3bd6e5
Image
Aug 6, 2014 10:33 AM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Hard to tell on the internet

Just making sure you know that is a fox.......just checking.......one never knows
Image
Aug 6, 2014 10:46 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
Yes it is a young one
Image
Aug 6, 2014 11:07 AM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
OK Thumbs up

can't always read sarcasm in a post
Image
Aug 6, 2014 1:33 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
You thought I was an idiot, didnt you? Red raccoon? Rolling on the floor laughing
Image
Aug 6, 2014 1:46 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Not really! I'm not a regular on the farming forum. So I don't really have a feel for personalities here. I thought perhaps it could just be an accidental typing thing.

I know they are a pain, but it is kinda cute. They don't mean to cause so much trouble.
Image
Aug 6, 2014 2:51 PM CST
So Cal (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Forum moderator Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Level 1
Quite the catch! I set a trap for cottontails (or it may have been for racoon) and came up with this earlier in the year:

Thumb of 2014-08-06/OldGardener/d9dee4
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
Image
Aug 6, 2014 5:50 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Ukraine Garden Sages
Shooting it would be more humane. Sorry to say it, but that's the truth. Relocated animals have a nearly 100% fatality rate, albeit slower and more painful.
Image
Aug 6, 2014 5:58 PM CST
Name: Tom
Southern Wisconsin (Zone 5b)
Butterflies Vegetable Grower Keeper of Poultry Irises Keeps Horses Dog Lover
Daylilies Cat Lover Region: Wisconsin Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Dave you beat me to the punch. Relocated animals almost alway die a slow and horrible death. It's much more humane to end their life quickly with a bullet. Sad
Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason.
Image
Aug 6, 2014 5:58 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I thought about that, and decided to give him that chance. Good luck little fox.
Image
Aug 6, 2014 7:16 PM CST
So Cal (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Forum moderator Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Level 1
Our little guy was released back to where he came from (the bottom of the vege garden). As he lives on cottontails and other critters that we are over-run with, we figured that we could use all of the help we could get. (Plus, we had never even seen him prior to that and have never seen him again).

I should have realized that we had a guest when all of the gophers stopped being an issue. I haven't seen a fresh hole in a few years.

Oddly enough, we have always kept poultry and, to date, have not had an issue with our buddy trying to eat them. Perhaps there is enough happening down in the garden that he/she hasn't wandered up the hill?
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
Image
Aug 6, 2014 7:47 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
I think all animals will catch what's easiest, and we have all the roosters, and guinea outside a pen. If he would just eat the roosters, I would welcome him. But they stay close to the house, and the guinea wander for 1/4 mile
Image
Aug 6, 2014 7:59 PM CST
So Cal (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Forum moderator Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Level 1
I fully understand. When they are a problem, they have got to go.
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
Image
Aug 7, 2014 10:48 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: tk
97478 (Zone 8b)

Tomato Heads Avid Green Pages Reviewer
You thought I was an idiot, didnt you? Red raccoon? Rolling on the floor laughing
Image
Aug 7, 2014 11:29 AM CST
So Cal (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Forum moderator Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Level 1
You actually gave me a good laugh. No wonder you did not find any paw prints.
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
You must first create a username and login before you can reply to this thread.
Member Login:

( No account? Join now! )