Raccoon problem

[bradford]

Originally Posted by tsubaki

So, how'd they eat?
Or did you feed them bread and milk before?

Man, a 30lb coon would bring $35 or so around here!

LOL!! Black fella named "Sweet Daddy" at Thunderbolt Marine will take 'em, as long as they're still live.

Which reminds me of a story.

A good friend of mine and his buddy used to shoot them with 22 rifles when they were 12-13 years old. They used to take them down to the folks who used to live down in Sandfly and get 5-10 dollars each skinned out. After a while they depopulated the coons so much around their place they started doing the same with the feral cats. After a couple of weeks the folks in Sandfly started to get wise and told them to leave one paw on them for identification purposes. LOL!!

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by bradford

LOL!! Black fella named "Sweet Daddy" at Thunderbolt Marine will take 'em, as long as they're still live.

Which reminds me of a story.

A good friend of mine and his buddy used to shoot them with 22 rifles when they were 12-13 years old. They used to take them down to the folks who used to live down in Sandfly and get 5-10 dollars each skinned out. After a while they depopulated the coons so much around their place they started doing the same with the feral cats. After a couple of weeks the folks in Sandfly started to get wise and told them to leave one paw on them for identification purposes. LOL!!

My grandfather said the same thing about rabbits when he was a boy. Nobody would buy a rabbit from you or the butcher unless it still had a paw on it after all of the stray cats started disappearing.

[Blue_Runner]

My grandpa and those before him used to eat possum quite a bit. They would trap & cage them, feed em cornbread and buttermilk for a month before eating them. I asked him if he would eat one today (back around 2000 - he passed in '04 - he said, "nah" I said why - he said, "too many other good things to eat now." Smart man.

[EngstromNK]

I got #4 last night. There were two sets of tracks coming out from under the porch. Hopefully I can get the last one and then close up the area and be done with this.

[EngstromNK]

I'm up to 6 'coons now.

How many do you think can come from under one porch?

[spareparts]

if it were down here, you wouldn't have room for the coons under the porch for all the dogs under there