Raccoon trouble

Checked the pond yesterday morning and saw the fountain knocked over
and some plants on the edge of the pond. I thought it might have been
a cat but later in evening my mom called me at work and said that my
uncle who lives across the street found a hurt raccoon on his deck.
I was wondering why I was missing some koi and now I know. My aunt
just told me that the game warden came out and shot it. But where
there is one there is bound to be another. Time to get out the shotgun.

"Where there is one" ................ So far I'm up to ten and while
number ten was in the trap two more were tearing up the pond. I guess
I'm lucky the only casualties have been frogs and snails. Of course my
plants have been declared a disaster area.
Local and federal laws prevent me from blasting the s@#* out
of them. (within two hundred yards of a school) So I will have to
continue relocating them to a county park.
Some others have had good results with coyote urine as a
repellant. But there hasn't been a coyote at the jersey shore in over
a hundred years. The coons think it's cheap cologne.
Good luck!!!!!!

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"Gene" wrote in message
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Checked the pond yesterday morning and saw the fountain knocked
over
and some plants on the edge of the pond. I thought it might have
been
a cat but later in evening my mom called me at work and said that my
uncle who lives across the street found a hurt raccoon on his deck.
I was wondering why I was missing some koi and now I know. My aunt
just told me that the game warden came out and shot it. But where
there is one there is bound to be another. Time to get out the
shotgun.

I was wondering why my dogs started barking uncontrolably one morning (2 am) so
I thought I see what's going on. I saw nothing and brought the dogs in when
they went back to the door barking like crazy again. I let them out and
followed them as they raced to the back gate. I figured it was kids drinking
under a large tree on the back lot. Well, what to my surprise, a racoon
sitting on the post to the gate. Nothing would shake him loose. He just sat
there. We'd had reports of a rabid coon so I called the police and they came
out, ready to shoot it, but after trying to get it off the post for almost 30
minutes it finally ran off and despite looking for almost an hour (3 cops and
myself) we gave up. Been no sign of it since.

Bless my 2 doggies for protecting my pond. I also took a picture of the
critter while waiting for the police, it's on the page Just For Fun.

Karen
Zone 5
Ashland, OH
http://hometown.aol.com/kmam1/MyPond/MyPond.html
My Art Studio at
http://members.aol.com/kmmstudios/K....M.Studios.html
for email remove the extra extention

I loved that fish feeding cardinal!!!



On 26 Aug 2003 04:37:17 GMT, (Karen Mullen) wrote:

I was wondering why my dogs started barking uncontrolably one morning (2 am) so
I thought I see what's going on. I saw nothing and brought the dogs in when
they went back to the door barking like crazy again. I let them out and
followed them as they raced to the back gate. I figured it was kids drinking
under a large tree on the back lot. Well, what to my surprise, a racoon
sitting on the post to the gate. Nothing would shake him loose. He just sat
there. We'd had reports of a rabid coon so I called the police and they came
out, ready to shoot it, but after trying to get it off the post for almost 30
minutes it finally ran off and despite looking for almost an hour (3 cops and
myself) we gave up. Been no sign of it since.

Bless my 2 doggies for protecting my pond. I also took a picture of the
critter while waiting for the police, it's on the page Just For Fun.

Karen
Zone 5
Ashland, OH
http://hometown.aol.com/kmam1/MyPond/MyPond.html
My Art Studio at
http://members.aol.com/kmmstudios/K....M.Studios.html
for email remove the extra extention