Thanks for all responses. My plan is to purchase one Hav A Heart trap
at the tractor store. Catch a coon per night and give them a ride to
my work site each morning. Open the trap in the parking lot and run.
If this turns out to be fun, I'll share the experience.
Regards,
STOVEBOLT

In Oregon coons are a game animal and protected. You have to get a permit
to trap them. Trapping and releasing elsewhere is illegal. Spreads
disease. Better to kill them. Hide properly prepared is worth a few
dollars. They can be eaten. How will you handle trapping a skunk?

Jar of peanut butter works well for bait.

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Thanks for all responses. My plan is to purchase one Hav A Heart
trap
at the tractor store. Catch a coon per night and give them a ride
to
my work site each morning. Open the trap in the parking lot and
run.
If this turns out to be fun, I'll share the experience.
Regards,
STOVEBOLT

Moving a raccoon a few miles is no problem for them. They can be back
at your hose and a known food supply within a day or 2. I have a
neighbor that trapped over 50 before he became aware he was trapping
the same animals over and over.

Tom J

"Moving a raccoon a few miles is no problem for them. They can be back
at your hose and a known food supply within a day or 2. I have a
neighbor that trapped over 50 before he became aware he was trapping
the same animals over and over. "

As I tried to point out before, raccoons and skunks don't just tear up
a lawn for no reason. The only time I've seen this happen is when
there is food, namely grubs, present in large numbers. And if that's
the case, the raccoons are only part of the problem, as the grubs will
destroy the lawn too. I'd be looking at fixing the real problem, not
relocating varmits.

On 10/13/2005 10:44 PM US(ET), Pat took fingers to keyboard, and typed
the following:

In Oregon coons are a game animal and protected. You have to get a permit
to trap them. Trapping and releasing elsewhere is illegal. Spreads
disease. Better to kill them. Hide properly prepared is worth a few
dollars. They can be eaten. How will you handle trapping a skunk?


Most states have hunting and trapping laws. Killing pests on your own
property is is not considered either. Where I used to live and due to a
rabies scare, any raccoons out in the daytime in residential areas were
assumed to be sick and were destroyed by local police or animal control
officers. Residents had to use something other than firearms to kill
them (except beating them to death, which was considered cruelty, and
punishable). It was an automatic death sentence for any raccoon that had
insomnia. :-)
The heads of destroyed animals had to be sent to the Health Department
for rabies determination.

--
Bill

I have a
neighbor that trapped over 50 before he became aware he was trapping
the same animals over and over.

Day-glo spray paint. Works wonders to convince those that think trapping
and releasing elsewhere is a better solution that just killing the damn
things outright.

A 22 short right behind the ear is quick. The buzzards need something to
eat also. When they are causing me problems I don't see any use of
taking them someplace to cause someone else problems.


From Mel & Donnie in Bluebird Valley