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Due to lack of reliable sources, I have to ask you guys. If I leave a peanut butter and banana sandwich outside, will the racoons partake?
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
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If you have coons in your area.. Not only will they partake, but they will also come back every night for a week, dig up all your flowers, rattle your windowscreens, and shit on your porch.

Pic very related. My great grandma fed a coon the winter of 1985. Now, she feeds foxes, coons, cats, rabbits, birds, and FUCKING BLACK BEARS. The bears sit on the back porch and rattle the screen during fall evenings, and the coons will ring the fucking doorbell. I hate going over there if I have to spend the night. It was cool seeing a dozen racoons swarming the front yard, but if you don't toss out a loaf of stale bread (she's old and decrepid, and the local bread store just gives it to her, i think they think she eats it), then they will try and open the windows.

A racoon seriously stole the cushions off the patio couch.
>> Anonymous
They will, and I love raccoons. God, they're adorable.
>> Anonymous
>>84188
That is the coolest thing ever.
>> Anon
>>84188
We have a coon that's attemted to take the stereo system off the porch several times. Luckily it's large enough it makes a lot of noise when he does. He's got it to the edge.
They're god damned strong little bastards for their size. My mom had woodworking shit on the porch and they strew it from one end to another, including moved a ten gallon fish tank and threw it to the otherside.
They're cute, but they're dead if I catch them. They're destruction and kill the chickens. We don't feed them either, we knew better than to even start that.
>> Anonymous
I had one of those funny looking cats sneak into my room the other day when my window was open, I posted the pictures on /b/, I should repost them here.
>> Anonymous
>>84416
Haha, oh wow. I didn't know them raccoons were such playas. I could insert a racist joke her, but...
Damn. An animal after my own heart.
>> Anonymous
Once I had soup in a bowl on the stove (stove off), and I had to go somewhere to do something or rather for a little while, I left the window open (broad daylight), and when I came back there were red paw prints on my counter and bowl (soup was red - Borsh).
>> Anonymous
no, leave fried chicken
>> Anonymous
>>85320
That brings the wrong types of animals.
>> Anonymous
>>84188
COON STOLE MAH PILLOWS!
>> Anonymous
coons are scavengers if you don't leave them some watermelon they'll steal your VCR
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Mhm, watermelon.
>> Anonymous
Try antifreeze, little bastards love it to death.
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And chicken!
>> Anonymous
>>84416
>>85349

Go fuck yourself, animal haters.
>> Anonymous
>>85355
You've probably never had a raccoon destroy something that cost you a lot of money
>> Anonymous
>>85355
What are you, a fucking PETA hippie? Animals as well as people get born, live and die. Quite often by each other. While the antifreeze guy was rude and most likely a troll, where the hell do you get off calling>>84416an animal hater? If s/he has chickens and raccoons kill them (or try) s/he has every right to kill the little pests. And that's what coons can be. Don't get me wrong, I'm intrigued by them, like them and *theoretically* would love to have one but they're too clever for their own good. I don't think there's a way to just scare them away without harming them if they get into their heads that there's good eating to be had in your possessions.
>> Anonymous
>>85357

No, but there are other ways to protect his property without eliminating the wildlife. I would love to have more wild animals here where I live. And I would not mind if it would cost me some money.

And there is a good chance, that when you kill one, others will follow. Will you kill them as well? And even if you do, even that will perhaps not help. It's a fact that raccoons increase their reproduction rate if heavily hunted, so that their total number in an area remains constant.
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>>85362
I'm gonna have you ask you to cite your sources on that last fact. Wikipedia doesn't count.
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Seconded. My great grandma is a little old woman(srsly 4'9, maybe 80lbs soaking wet wearing winter clothes), and despite them regularly harassing her through windows, all she has to do is yell and they freak and run off. Sure, a determined coon will take extra amounts of persuasion, but they get startled easy.

I would like to note that it is also illegal to feed wildlife like she does, which is why she hides the bread and whatnot whenever the rangers come around. If she didn't feed them though, there would proably be a lot less animals left on the mountain, because of all the urbanization Beckly has been through.

Other things the coons have done:
ate my fucking kitten (I had found a little kitten walking, and it was yowling and emaceated, so I put it in a box on the porch when I went inside to eat dinner. came out, the box was in the middle of the yard, no kitten to be found)
stole/ate/wasted 60 glazed donuts (left for five minutes while my grandma went in to grab something, we were bringing it to church, but apparently it smelled too good)
taken down bird feeders to eat the seeds
learned how to open padlocks (she tried to keep them out of the shed,and left the key in the lock because she didn't think they were that smart)
Dismantled the exercise bike in this pic
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Uh and she feeds the deers, there is a salt lick about 20 feet to the left of the porch. Here is one visitor.
>> Anonymous
>>85373
That pic is begging to be photoshopped, but I'm not sure what to do with it yet >_>
>> Anon
>>85362
Hey, I tried different methods to keep the damned things away. We reinforced fence, had noise makers, dogs, etc. No go.
They literally ripped apart the fence, taking wire and everything apart. They ate kittens..yes ate them. Caught in the act. They've tried to take off with my full grown maine coon. I didn't appreciate walking out and finding my rooster covered in blood, the pen a gory scene, and my pet silkie hen headless.
I've had them chase us into the house on a couple of accounts.

I realize another is going to take the place of the old one. But if I take out the big guys I don't bother with the small ones simply because they generally aren't as brave. Nor or they big enough to take off with my cat or pomeranian.

I have a nature loving hippy friend that tolerated coons until they became overly destructive. She took the gun to them too.
This was the woman screaming at us for offing a coyote trying to take on a draft cross horse with its herd of six other horses (all large might I add). Personally I would have had it rabies tested if the damned neighbor hadn't taken it before the lousey warden got there.
But besides the point. Even someone of a similiar opinion of you extreme no kills too up the rifle.

I like animals, I like to sit and watch the deer graze (even if they eat the magnolia trees), the groundhogs(even though they dig tunnels that collapse), cottontails (even though they eat my veggies), the birds, the occasional fox or bobcat scurry acrossed the yard. I've helped my share of wild animals, they all have their minuses. But they're mild irritations, I can easily overlook them for their beauty.
Coons are just destructive, aggressive, and have no reason to be on my porch when they have 92 acres to roam. We've Never fed them or had food there. They're cute as fuck, I'll give them that..but that's about it. If I find one on my porch or near my coop it better run like hell and be able to dodge.
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I can just imagine that getting meme-if-ied. "You gon get raped" and/or "you got served". Goddamnit, /b/

>>85481
I agree that they are destructive, but it's just what they do. Have you tried live animal traps, or putting out bait somewhere away from your home? As in, give them a better place to be than in your yard? The reason they are so prolific around my greatgrandma's home is not only because she feeds them, but because her property is one of the few refuges they have left. there is consitantly food and shelter there.

Put up a shack (or just a heap of junk that resembles one) and dump some garbage in it away from your house (you mentioned having 92 acres), and see if you can't get them to move on.
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>>85483
Kiss us, fat boy!