Coon's gone, and good riddance!

[Johnnie]

A coon had terrorized my koi for weeks. The coon's hungry enough to jump into the net and attempted to eat my koi from my pond. Last night after nights and nights of constant terrors inflicted on koi, the coon's finally trapped, captured and relocated far far away. Good riddance!

 

[j.w]

Glad you got him and glad he's going to a new home out in the woods somewhere to hopefully only eat wild things and not somebodies pond pets.

 

[Waterbug]

Hopefully the next raccoon to move into the now open territory won't be as much of a terror.

 

[addy1]

What a sad little face..............I'm caught!

 

[koiguy1969]

i see plenty of racoons around here... they just dont seem interested in my yard at all, but they seem to enjoy my neighbors garden....hehehe!

 

[addy1]

Ours stay in the woods so far.

 

[DrDave]

What did you use for bait?

 

[Johnnie]

What did you use for bait?

The bait was a T-bone steak (without the meat!). I drilled 2 holes on the bone and tied it onto the flopper-tricker of the cage. When the coon dragged the bone, the doors dropped down and trapped it inside of the cage.

 

[DrDave]

Great way to use a bone!

 

[JoaniePA]

Keep in mind that trapping and relocating wildlife is illegal in some states. Relocated animals have poor survival rates due to territorial infringement and unfamiliarity with food and water sources. A raccoon can travel quite a distance in an attempt to find territory.

 

[Johnnie]

Keep in mind that trapping and relocating wildlife is illegal in some states. Relocated animals have poor survival rates due to territorial infringement and unfamiliarity with food and water sources. A raccoon can travel quite a distance in an attempt to find territory.

Ignorance is no defense of the law, so it's good to keep in mind as you suggested. If the local law prohibits the relocation, then a ponder needs to have a state licensed nuisance trapper to catch a coon. After the catch, the trapper will usually kill a coon in a CO2 chamber ( The 0 oxygen air will kill the coon).


By the way, it's OK to relocate critters in my neck of the woods. A few years ago, a neighbor called a cop on me because of noises from my pond-construction-in-progress. A cop came in my back yard, looked around and saw everything OK...except a chipmunk trapped in a mouse cage. Before he took off "empty handed", he advised me to relocate the chipmunk, NOT to drown it like a rat!

 

[JoaniePA]

Translocation of a wild animal is illegal without a trapper's license, (and in some cases is just plain illegal) in all New England states, and in New York and New Jersey (not Pennsylvania). I believe our re-habbers told me that it's illegal in 36 states. If an animal is truly "nuisance wildlife" then euthanasia is the humane choice, but must be done by game control or a licensed trapper or handler, and usually must be reported to whatever the state game and wildlife agency is in your state. Your cop was probably speaking from misplaced emotion.