man charged with attacking raccoons

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/artic ... g-raccoons

That guy was pretty freakin' brutal with them coons! Guess he reaaaally loves his garden huh?

Edit: There are other ways of dealing with coons. Come on.

I must be listening to too many Colorado lottery commercials... The title of this thread had me anticipating a bar room brawl between an inebriated patron and some raccoon showing off all the cash he won after resubmitting losing lottery tickets it scrounged from people's trash.

After having read the story I can understand why the neighbor called the cops. Maiming an animal is shameful, if you intend to kill it do so in a swift and complete manner. Being that this happened in Canada in a residential area firearms would be out of the question. Live traps are a good option but that means you have to transport the critters to someplace else and release them. Something more exotic like wolf or cougar pee applied around the garden should slow them down, I have to confess I have always wondered how the companies that sell that stuff collect it...

Why didn't the guy just fence his garden appropriately? Sheesh -- he should be fined from here to Friday and back.

otisptoadwater wrote: I must be listening to too many Colorado lottery commercials... The title of this thread had me anticipating a bar room brawl between an inebriated patron and some raccoon showing off all the cash he won after resubmitting losing lottery tickets it scrounged from people's trash.

After having read the story I can understand why the neighbor called the cops. Maiming an animal is shameful, if you intend to kill it do so in a swift and complete manner. Being that this happened in Canada in a residential area firearms would be out of the question. Live traps are a good option but that means you have to transport the critters to someplace else and release them. Something more exotic like wolf or cougar pee applied around the garden should slow them down, I have to confess I have always wondered how the companies that sell that stuff collect it...

Me too, coons wearing fur, it an't right.

Martin Ent Inc wrote:

otisptoadwater wrote: Something more exotic like wolf or cougar pee applied around the garden should slow them down, I have to confess I have always wondered how the companies that sell that stuff collect it...

Me too, coons wearing fur, it an't right.

So I have to know... Do they follow the wolves and cougars around with a pee bottle and somehow get the animals to agree to pee in the bottle?! I gotta believe asking critters to fill up a jug don't work so good.