This Is Why You Don't Feed Raccoons

[1srelluc]

I am not here to SCARE PEOPLE----but be aware----raccoons have been known to carry rabies

Yep, I've killed a few rabid coons over the years.

 

[Road Runner]

Hmm... Interesting.

 

[BULLDOG]

I am not here to SCARE PEOPLE----but be aware----raccoons have been known to carry rabies

The bastards might take a chunk out of your hand while you are hand feeding them too.

 

[evenflow1969]

Only the young ones.....We used to have a coon feast in my AO....All the local trappers would save small coons, dress them out, and freeze them till the feast.

They were cut-up, baked upon a bed of stale bread to soak-up the grease, the bread tossed, then wine was poured over them and baked till tender.

About all I can say was they were better than bear meat.

When I was a child a made a very good income coon hunting and running trap lines. By 77 or 78 there was no money in it. In 79 my father took a 4 year contract with the federal government. They were running phone lines from LA and San Diego to the Hawian Islands. I all of a sudden found a similar way to make money hunting rattle snakes selling their skin in rattle. Was not quite like trapping but funded some pretty good times.

 

[irosie91]

The bastards might take a chunk out of your hand while you are hand feeding them too.

yeah----sorry----don't hand feed the rabid cute rabid little critters

 

[BULLDOG]

yeah----sorry----don't hand feed the rabid cute rabid little critters

Now you tell me. Working out of town, the entire crew staying in the same motel, we would grill steaks often. Cute little coon wanted his part, so we hand fed it often, until the little bastard decided he liked fingers better than the bits of left over steak.

 

[Robert W]

Lol the woman seemed awfully surprised. The only thing that surprises me about this is that it didn't happen sooner. We get raccoons here but they only eat what we give the birds and squirrels so we don't specifically feed them.

Dad and Mom owned 20 acres in Northern CA in the Redwood forest. Little did they know a lot of Racoons were in that area. After some years, the racoons showed up on their front porch and I saw them myself when at their home.What amazed me is how many showed up and would be racoons on their front porch. They believed it was my sister who was also on the same property that got the Racoons willing to do this. Also my sister loved cats and they also showed up.

 

[whitehall]

They wouldn't stand a chance during the Fess Parker Davy Crockett fad of he 50's. I saw a coon staggering out of the woods nearby a year or two ago in daylight. A sure sign of rabbis. I shot it and picked it up with a shovel and buried it.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Rockies are like Appalachian freeloaders.

 

[whitehall]

Rockies are like Appalachian freeloaders.

What are the other Appalachian freeloaders prey tell.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The stories I could tell about SW Viriginia and the countryside of Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City.

 

[whitehall]

The stories I could tell about SW Viriginia and the countryside of Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City.

Tell it. Can it be as bad as being a victim in New York or L.A.?

 

[boevans]

Tell it. Can it be as bad as being a victim in New York or L.A.?

Oh, yeah.
And the sorrow of southern rural poverty sears the soul.

 

[irosie91]

They wouldn't stand a chance during the Fess Parker Davy Crockett fad of he 50's. I saw a coon staggering out of the woods nearby a year or two ago in daylight. A sure sign of rabbis. I shot it and picked it up with a shovel and buried it.

good move----did you call the local animal control?------uhm---the operative word is RABIES-----rabbis is those people doing a job
today

 

[irosie91]

What are the other Appalachian freeloaders prey tell.

not "prey tell" PRAY TELL----fix it----I won't tell anyone

 

[buttercup]

 

[Care4all]

They're just big rats.

Fyi

Many people assume that raccoons are rodents, but they're from the procyonid genus. These small mammalian carnivores have powerful jaws and teeth. Distantly related to cats and dogs, they share a common evolutionary ancestor with bears. Endlessly adaptive, raccoons are among the more intelligent mammal species.

 

[buttercup]

 

[Care4all]

How in the heck did the raccoon family she fed, communicate to the 100 other raccoon, that she was friendly, and had food?

I bet ya, those 100 raccoon all extended from the babies of the alleged one family mom and her litters that the lady fed over the past decade years!

 

[Muhammed]

Lol the woman seemed awfully surprised. The only thing that surprises me about this is that it didn't happen sooner. We get raccoons here but they only eat what we give the birds and squirrels so we don't specifically feed them.

Good intentions pave the way to.....