https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lipHEaxIGag
When this man passes away a lot of raccoons will soon follow him to the grave. The diet he is feeding them wouldn't even be healthy for humans!
Trash bandits on welfare!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lipHEaxIGag
When this man passes away a lot of raccoons will soon follow him to the grave. The diet he is feeding them wouldn't even be healthy for humans!
That is CRAZY to watch. Wow. With that buffet everyday, all day,... I would bet that the neighborhood trash cans and bird feeders are pretty safe. He will have to build them a ramp as they will soon be so fat (er) that they won't be able to climb stairs.
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That's nuts.. Wait until he doesn't feed em.. sick, vacation etc.. probably not going to be happy..
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That is way cool"i did,nt think they could get that fat? I have squirrely mans outside my window.
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I enjoyed that video, and obviously so did that guy and all his semi-adopted pets. The world needs all kinds of people.
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Dangerous! People don't get how powerful raccoons are for their size. The more you feed them the bolder they get.
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I had a friend who lived on the other side of the lake and his elderly neighbor fed the raccoons. Well, he passed and the raccoons started coming to my friends house looking for handouts. We were over for dinner one night with the sliding doors open and a raccoon tore through the screen door and entered the kitchen. We all jumped up and the raccoon climbed on top of the table and started eating our dinner. Our county doesn't have animal control and their solution is always to shoot the pests. My friend bought several live traps and after catching them he would drown them in the lake. It's never a good idea to feed pest animals.
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Can you say "hydatid cyst"?
Parasitology was a required course during my Purdue wildlife science education. The grossest slide I ever saw was a hydatid cyst in a human produced by a parasite carried by the Raccoon.
I don't have a problem, as long as it is legal, to dispatch a nuisance animal. However, if I'm party to the nuisance (poor refuse management or much worse, feeding) I think the killing is unnecessary. I feed two mousers (cats) on my deck. Raccoons from time to time come to finish the cat food. When this happens I put out a live trap and catch them. Then I take them about a mile away on my farm and release them, unharmed but obviously traumatized.
People who feed wildlife are a nuisance to me. Typically, when you feed wildlife, if food was a limiting factor in that population, you've simply artificially increased the carrying capacity of the local landscape to support that species. This could very well be to the detriment of other species that the raccoon shares the habitat with. Population gets too big and natural causes (read disease) will cut it down and there will be collateral damage.
Parasitology was a required course during my Purdue wildlife science education. The grossest slide I ever saw was a hydatid cyst in a human produced by a parasite carried by the Raccoon.
I don't have a problem, as long as it is legal, to dispatch a nuisance animal. However, if I'm party to the nuisance (poor refuse management or much worse, feeding) I think the killing is unnecessary. I feed two mousers (cats) on my deck. Raccoons from time to time come to finish the cat food. When this happens I put out a live trap and catch them. Then I take them about a mile away on my farm and release them, unharmed but obviously traumatized.
People who feed wildlife are a nuisance to me. Typically, when you feed wildlife, if food was a limiting factor in that population, you've simply artificially increased the carrying capacity of the local landscape to support that species. This could very well be to the detriment of other species that the raccoon shares the habitat with. Population gets too big and natural causes (read disease) will cut it down and there will be collateral damage.
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really no different than live trap and kill, only this guy is a pretty terrible shot and obviously really scared of the coon.
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Caught another one this morning. He's in live trap now waiting for me to take him a mile or more away. What a filthy mess they make.
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