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They are persistent little thieves not easily deterred.

All of us do, and you are lying if you say you don’t. Some laws are practical, others are forced upon the people againt their will, and just plain dumb.
In San Francisco now plastic straws are illegal, but they hand out plastic syringes my the thousands. Guess which one you saw more of down in the sand..before they outlawed straws?
So I can give two schitts about respecting idiotic laws, crafted by idiots with agendas, that doesn’t mean I condone theft does it?

For those who release, can you pull them along with that trap, into the back of a truck, then release at a new location, or do you have to handle an adult raccoon full of venance?

I've had that out of a livetrap before...

Didn't last long though. I tranquilized him.

In Tn it's prohibited to relocate nuisance game animals. It's PERFECTLY OK to kill nuisance small game animals damaging property. No permit needed.

For big game problems like deer in a garden, our TWRA wardens desire that you contact them before proceeding. Almost always they will either give you verbal ok over the phone or issue a permit.



As for "releasing". I have a Hav-A-Hart brand live cage trap. Several actually.
One you just flip the whole cage over and the door opens by gravity. Anothe couple of traps I have you sort of have to get your fingers close to the mechanism. Those are never fun.
Especially with an amped up sow coon.

Easier to just give them the Pol Pot treatment thru the wire before even touching the trap.

Apparently Jamesjr's state does not and neither does NY. Deer have been far worse pests to me here than coons or anything else. If I just shot them any time because they're damaging/destroying my apple trees I'd be considered a poacher and prosecuted for it if caught, even though they've cost me a fortune in damaged/destroyed trees and fencing to keep them out.. The holier than thou hypocrites here would label me a poacher and outlaw for it without a doubt. You can get nuisance permits to kill them out of season here but only if you're a commercial farmer {which I'm not} and the process requires a visit/survey of the damage by a DEC game biologist and approval by same before a permit will be issued. Even then it isn't up to you how many can be killed. The biologist will determine if you have a legitimate problem, how many can be killed and will issue permits for that number.

It's been mentioned several times already but raccoons hate radios and music. A neighbor had a 'coon litter born in her storage shed that was attached to the house. She didn't want 'em killed but wanted them gone. I had her put a radio out there and left it on, it was a talk radio station. Day or two later I saw the mama carrying the babies over to the nearby woods in broad daylight in the afternoon. About the time Rush Limbaugh was on that station. I guess raccoons don't like Rush, and they never came back.

It's obvious you know very little about Kentucky. We're not a Yankee Liberal state where animals have more rights than humans......and that includes some human animals too. I watch the North Woods Law game warden shows from New Hampshire and Maine, and I feel sorry for those people having to deal with the stupid laws.

This is the South, and we look at things differently down here, especially when it comes to animals harming your property. We can actually shoot them, regardless of the time of year.....which is exactly what I did to the corn thief, just about 20 seconds after I took the picture. If, by chance, I lived in a state that did not allow to me kill animals that were a nuisance, I'd still do it, only I'd practice the 3 S's....shoot, shovel, and shutup.

Haven't been ignoring your advice, just have been using what I have on hand, and what usually works for me. If it weren't for my dog and cat, I'd do the Coke-fly spray thing. I'll get some honey buns and try them. The biggest problem has been the constant rain the past few weeks, and how it keeps messing up the bait.

Hahaha!!!
Didin du nuffin....

Guess that's why they're called coons!

I had a lady watching me clean fish out in my shop the other day—she noticed my jab stick and asked what it was. I explained that the foreshots off my whiskey still is mostly acetone—or you could use women’s fingernail polish remover too. You fill up this little hypodermic needle on the end of it and you jab a skunk in a live trap right behind the front leg with it. She actually asked me what’s it do to ‘em. I told it tranquilizer them so good they wont spray and then they can be relocated out in the bush where they can spend their lives happy and contented. She looked at me real funny like—i told her the truth—it works on bears too.

\Not to defend Blackheart, but I'm a bit confused. (Because I live in Cali? )

James, if it's OK to deal with the racoon the way you did, then why in your original post did you mention it being "technically illegal" I think is the way you put it?

If one is allowed to euthanize animal pests then it's really not illegal. Unless perhaps your method of leaving traps out year round is not an approved method of dealing with those pests?

As I said, I'm confused a bit, either it's illegal or it's not.

Geno

See below taken directly from the Missouri Dept of Conservation website, which I would suspect, but do not know, is probably similar to most other states in "flyover country"::

After you trap a damage-causing animal, you must dispose of it properly. Although relocation may seem like a good idea, we do not recommend it. Moving an animal can spread disease. Also, a strange animal coming into an established local population of the same species (a strange, disoriented squirrel coming into an established community of squirrels, for example) can upset the local group’s social order and possibly its health. Further, a relocated animal does not know where to find food or other resources and may likely starve to death. Finally, moving the animal might simply create a problem for someone else at the new location. You should also know that most federal, state, and local agencies prohibit the release of wildlife on lands they own or manage (including Department properties). For these reasons, we recommend killing the animal.

Just following the rules, man. Just following the rules.

Yes, this one was "medievalized"



Geno

Okay, my original post says that "technically"........meaning that the law might frown on keeping a baited trap set out when it's not trapping season. Kentucky law states that as a landowner, I can remove a nuisance animal through trapping or shooting, however, I suppose that some game wardens might view it overkill to have half a dozen traps set out. Technically, I'm targeting just about any coon that comes close by, but I'm not really concerned about the technicalities of the law, I'm just concerned about keeping them out of my sweet corn.

LMAO.

You know coons are eating your corn, I'd doubt most conservation agents would bat an eye at what you're doing. At least not around here. Coons are crazy in this state. Some of our state parks campgrounds are getting over-run with the nasty critters.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I'd certainly hope that in your rural area the wardens would be understanding types and not searching for "technicalities".

And technically (in my mind at least) , any raccoon seen around a corn patch is a "nuisance", right?

Geno