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How do you deal with raccoons?
Comments (78)In Maine it is standard practice for farmers to protect their crops from wildlife threats. I think most states have laws to help farmers. We are exempt from the season and bag limit thing. With deer and some other game animals you can contact your warden service and they will help. They generally don't want to bother with coon, squirrels, wood chucks, skunks etc. With wild geese you can get a permit to shoot a few and hang up the carcasses and the rest will not come back. For years I shot a crow for pulling up corn. Hung it up and no more problem. I now find light twine over the top of the garden 10 feet in the air also keeps them out. We don't eat coon due to rabies but do trap and kill them to keep them out of the corn. Farmers should always know their rights in protecting their crops! Having said that it is not a good idea to go down to the local coffee shop and brag to animal rights activists that you had to trap 15 coons. Those people do not care about your fruit or garden!...See MoreWhere do I go from here?? It still isn't over, MIL attacks(long)
Comments (17)I think your husband needs to stop telling his sister things that get back to your MIL. Your business is private and nothing you say or do should be told to your MIL because she obviously takes that information and figures out ways to use it against you. Also, it would be very enlightening for your husband to hear both sides of a story in a way that he cannot refute. Have him listen in on a conversation with his mother but don't let her know he's listening. Then when she calls him to complain about "how you mistreated her again", he'll see that she is exaggerating everything. Men are fixers. I'm not the least bit surprised that your DH wants you and his mom to get along and that he thinks 2 weeks is enough. Men don't typically hold grudges or over-think things like women tend to do and I think he thinks it's been long enough. (I had a problem like this for years with my late MIL and the day DH figured it all out was an amazing day for all of us. lol She went off on him and opened his eyes forever. BUT, in 2 weeks, he was over it and things went back to almost normal. She was his mom and he wasn't going to cut her out of his life forever, even though she deserved it. She also never apologized or admitted fault, but he knew.) So my feeble advise- never talk to MIL again without a witness in the room, or if it's a phone call, have someone else on the other line, listening. Have a little voice recorder in your pocket if your words are constantly twisted around by her, until your husband sees the light. And avoid her as much as possible if the 2 of you are unable to come to an agreement. Let DH take the kids to visit her, but be careful because she may try to use your kids against you and she will bad-mouth you to them in ways that are subtle but effective. Good luck. I don't envy you at all. My MIL is gone now and my life is a lot less stressful. When she was alive, I was so thankful that I didn't have children for her to corrupt, like she did her other grandkids. Because we had no kids, I was able to remove myself from her drama and lies....See MoreRaccoons
Comments (15)Racoons are SMART. They know there are "good pickin's" to be had in the 'burbs! Think about the stuff you put into the trash bags, people... for an enterprising, clever, and omniverous creature, you just SET A BUFFET! duh! Digging for grubs in a lawn sounds more like skunk behavior than a 'coon, at least in my area. (Just had a a "skunked" dog, too... first time ever. LOL). I view foxes, 'coons, skunks as the "night shift". My pets come indoors for the night and the wild ones do a "neighborhood sweep". I'm fine with it. Our pets are vaccinated and indoors at night... so occasionally the late night canine wee-wee disrupts Mr. Skunkie's "round" and the dog gets a snootful? -hit happens. I can deal with that! (and even find it funny)....See MoreI hate raccoons...
Comments (4)Sorry to hear about your loss! As my title says...I HATE RACCOONS! I caught all of them for now, but it took me a week to get them. We had a 4th of July party / bonfire Saturday night. My bonfire location is about 100' from my barn and coop. We were all sitting around the bonfire around 11:30 pm having a few beverages when I look up and see a coyote walking up to the coop like he didn't have a care in the world. I started screaming at it and it stopped and looked at me like, "what you going to do about it?" I didn't have to do nothing...my dog (who is very protective of his little patch of dirt) was on him in seconds. My oldest son pulled Jensen (the dog) off long enough for the coyote to get away and my dog didn't get hurt...which would have been inevitable. I have lived in the country all my life and have never seen a coyote be that brazen. Times are changing... As far as updating the coop...it has been this way for 30-years. My experience tells me that a coon, rat, bird, coyote, etc will get your livestock if they want it bad enough. Just like a thief...if he wants in your house or car, he is getting in. All the locks do is keep honest people honest. I am not going to spend thousands of dollars trying to keep them out. I have chain link fence for the coop and hog panels with chicken wire at the bottom for the run (no roof on run). I loose chickens when I forget to close the coop door at night. I lost my chickens because I let the weeds grow up in the run. The dead carcasses where hidden in the weeds where I couldn't see them. Since I have been shutting the door and setting out the live trap...all is back to normal....See Morejenica
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