okay i have a dilemma.

im getting ready to buy a house, and am currently living in an apartment that is on top of crabtree creek.


I have about 8 raccoons that i feed every night, and they come up to my backyard around 9pm like clockwork.

when we move in january should i take them with us so the people who move in here after us dont freak out and call animal control, or just stop feeding them now so they start to realize theres no food here?

or should i start to scare them off so they are afraid of me again? at this point i can just about pet them.


what says you?

10/9/2007 10:09:55 AM

i think you should share your drugs with us

10/9/2007 10:11:03 AM

You're fuckin crazy

10/9/2007 10:11:39 AM

I don't think they'll put up with it if you just stop feeding them. They're pretty persistent.

10/9/2007 10:12:09 AM

knowing that this is an honest dilemma, and i knew from the moment that you made the coon thread and had all these stories that this would come back to haunt you on moving day i really dont know what you're better off doing.

I would say stop feeding them but I imagine they will become angry/mischevious and start tearing things up around your house. But it is probably best for everyone to just quit the coons cold turkey.

10/9/2007 10:14:10 AM

take it upon yourself to relocate them. let the lil bastards ride shotgun if they want.

10/9/2007 10:14:16 AM

i mean just look at them. theyre freakin awesome

10/9/2007 10:14:25 AM

my dog likes to kill small animals if you want me to bring her over?

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 10:15 AM. Reason : s]

10/9/2007 10:15:24 AM

that was a great thread btw. the captions were priceless.

10/9/2007 10:15:25 AM

^^some of them probably weigh over 30 pounds. they say coons can kill dogs twice their size.
^thanks. ive got a ton more pictures to add. i started making them work for the food...like making them climb obstacles and shit for it.

10/9/2007 10:18:21 AM

ahahaha. you should setup a booth at the fair this week.

10/9/2007 10:19:48 AM

you could ask animal control or some other animal people about it, might be an honest question

10/9/2007 10:20:03 AM

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"i think you should share your drugs with us"

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"stop feeding them now so they start to realize theres no food here"

if they start acting a fool just get a high powered airsoft gun or something like that.

10/9/2007 10:20:17 AM

take them with you!

10/9/2007 10:31:09 AM

If you stop feeding them, how will they survive!!!

I'm sure they have forgotten how to feed themselves since they have been freeloadin from you!!

MURDERER!!!

10/9/2007 10:33:49 AM

i cant lie. im 6'4" and 225 lbs but if i saw a 30lb racoon id scream like a girl.

10/9/2007 10:35:19 AM

You disappoint little Iraqi girl

10/9/2007 10:35:33 AM

id still hit it

10/9/2007 10:38:48 AM

If you stop feeding them, how will they survive!!!

I'm sure they have forgotten how to feed themselves since they have been freeloadin from you!!

MURDERER!!!

10/9/2007 10:39:09 AM

http://www.ncwildliferehab.org/wrncloc.htm

Find a rescue group that can give you better advice. They don't need to be rescued but you can probably find someone that knows enough to tell you what you need to know.

10/9/2007 11:13:17 AM

Dude, the answer is obvious... Throw a big party before you move and have a big ol pot of Coon stew cooking.

10/9/2007 11:15:39 AM

well, does it get cold enough around here for raccoons to hibernate or do they torpor? If so...try and ween them off it, feed them less now at night, to only feeding them a few times a week, to only once a week, to not at all until you stop seeing them. by the time you leave in January it will be cold and they'll be sleeping in their den, so maybe they will have forgotten you come spring time.

10/9/2007 11:21:36 AM

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"ImYoPusha - i think you should share your drugs with us terpball - You're fuckin crazy"

10/9/2007 11:21:53 AM

stop feeding them and they'll stage a coon d'etat

or you could feed them until you leave and make whoever is next deal with the carnage

10/9/2007 11:25:15 AM

^ I like what you did there.


If you stop feeding them the new renters will have about 8 raccoons going through their garbage every wednesday spreading shit allover the place.


Seems to me you need to start a coon commune.

10/9/2007 12:17:08 PM

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"Find a rescue group that can give you better advice. They don't need to be rescued but you can probably find someone that knows enough to tell you what you need to know."

They may not need rescuing... but they need hotdog rehab!


Being a wildlife major, I cannot give you the advice you need becasue my heart gets in the way.
(Put them in a clothes basket and take them with you to your new house!) jk, don't do this because there may already be a family group in your neighborhood and there will be a fatal fight. Plus, you should not relocate wild animals without the help/consultation of professionals with permits.

I think that you should not move, stay there forever and take care of the raccoons!


However, those sigs that say "Don't feed the bears" really apply to all wildlife. If you move and other people come in, they may go outside one night and get freaked out and kill them all - because by feeding them, you have taken away their natural fear of people.

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 12:24 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2007 12:22:49 PM

We have this motherfucker regularly feeding coons and people want to call me redneck. Come on now.

10/9/2007 12:23:53 PM

check it, if you stop feedin the coons, they're just going to raid your place. spread your trash everywhere, destroy shit, etc. so that's a non-solution

either move the coons with you; have someone relocate them somewhere else; or eat them.


seriously.

and that whole thing about coons killin dogs? nah, they'll put an asswhippin on a dog, to be sure, but the dog wins. Every coon dog I ever had got in a fight with a coon, and each time it was the coon gettin his guts ripped out and being eaten. That's not to say the coon didn't get a few good scratches in, they'll fight like hell, but up against the jaws of a coon dog, they'll lose.

10/9/2007 2:02:19 PM

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"stop feeding them and they'll stage a coon d'etat"

hahahahahaha

10/9/2007 2:04:07 PM

Na my Gram had a 90 plus pound blk lab and a coon killed it at least we think it was only one might have been more but they fucked that dog up. So for there on out there is loaded 12g waiting for them

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 2:06 PM. Reason : was a lab not a coon dog]

10/9/2007 2:05:29 PM

yo for real that would be a good conversation piece at new house parties...have these coons in the back yard that you feed

10/9/2007 2:07:52 PM

who the fuck has raccoons in 2007?

do you have your own still in "the holler"?

10/9/2007 2:09:33 PM

Will there be a place at your new house for them to live? As in, are you close to woods, etc? If so, take 'em with you.

10/9/2007 2:51:32 PM

I bet those coons are descendants of the gang that used to hassle us when I lived on Crabtree Creek. One of them had a limp, but he made it look like he just had a lot of swagger. He was tuff fo sho!

10/9/2007 2:59:07 PM

10/9/2007 3:01:17 PM

take them with you.........your new neighbors will love you for it!

10/9/2007 3:13:48 PM

i'm so jealous

10/9/2007 3:21:59 PM

we have a problem with neighbors, not neighbors having a problem with us...as in they wont leave us the fuck alone...ever.

10/9/2007 4:13:42 PM

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" take them with you!"

10/9/2007 4:15:54 PM

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"stop feeding them and they'll stage a coon d'etat"

ftmfw

10/9/2007 4:20:18 PM

I'll move in to your old place and take care of them for you! I love raccoons

10/9/2007 4:23:31 PM

coon d'etat

10/9/2007 4:24:01 PM

yes mr. shoes has already enlightened us with funny with that play on words.

10/9/2007 4:27:08 PM

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"check it, if you stop feedin the coons, they're just going to raid your place. spread your trash everywhere, destroy shit, etc"

well they do that anyway=no more glasses outside.

10/9/2007 4:34:06 PM

Put something in their food
Razors, lsd, or something. They'll get the picture. Its called natural selection.

10/9/2007 4:41:53 PM