Raccoon alert

[mook]

I was awoken last night to the uproar of a raccoon slaying one of my son's pet chickens. I've got a compound bow, but sadly it wasn't handy. I probably could've got a clean shot off at the little fucker.

Anyway, I had to tell my 5 year old this morning that his chicken, named "Fries", had been mercilessly slaughtered.

I swore to myself that I would avenge my son's chicken's death.

Only a little later did I realize that this oath probably meant I'd seen too many episodes of Spartacus. I mean really....blood oaths for chickens?

Then when I saw the thread "**** alert" in the main forum, well, I felt I had to put this all out there.

 

[STOMP]

git em Rambo Dad!

pot of ledded, check. 30-6 ought, check. Readin' material in the meantime...



STOMP

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Fries is an awesome name.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Oops, was*.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Mook, here are some good raccoon recipes you can also try. They taste good with a side of, dare I say it, fries.

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zracoon.html

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Get er done!

 

[crandc]

Look in you yellow pages. I have had problems with raccoons, they did not fortunately hurt my cats, but they stripped all the fruit from fruit tree. I contacted Animal Damage Control. They trap and remove. It is illegal, at least in California, don't know about Oregon, to trap wild animals without a permit.

You can also go online and look for dehydrated fox urine. No joke. Try spraying it around the perimeter of your yard. Fox prey (racoons, squirrels, etc.) will avoid the yard, thinking there's a predator.

 

[mook]

Fries is an awesome name.

They named the other chicken that looks just like it "Fish," which is equally cool. Maybe we'll buy a new chicken and call it "Chips" so it sounds more British.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

They named the other chicken that looks just like it "Fish," which is equally cool. Maybe we'll buy a new chicken and call it "Chips" so it sounds more British.

Haha, fantastic!

 

[Rodolfo]

Had chickens when I was a kid. Chicken 1, Chicken 2 and Over easy. Aggressive g'damn birds, btw. Couldn't walk in their coup without them trying to peck you for being in their space.
Started off with 6 but 3 were attacked and killed in their wire coup by unknown animals. Could have been anything living in the middle of a dense Forrest. Fresh eggs are amazing!

 

[mook]

Mook, here are some good raccoon recipes you can also try. They taste good with a side of, dare I say it, fries.

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zracoon.html

That's actually a pretty intriguing site. I'm also kind of wondering what a nice raccoon korma or raccoon masala with some naan bread would taste like. I'm thinking with a good merlot. Or perhaps Pabst would be more appropriate. And a friend sent me a link to how to make your own coonskin cap, which would be freakin' awesome.

I had been thinking of just trapping it and letting it go down by the river, but murdering it and using all its pieces a la Daniel Boon sounds kind of cool. Dispatching, cleaning, tanning and cooking a raccoon has to be less work than butchering a mule deer, which I've done lots of times.

It's probably extremely illegal, but then I'm in Idaho.

 

[maxiep]

Why was the thread title changed? I loved "coon alert".

 

[mook]

Why was the thread title changed? I loved "coon alert".

 

[maxiep]

Which is why I loved it. I thought it was hilarious.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Title changed? Really, Ed O?

 

[THE HCP]

Title changed? Really, Ed O?

Ed is starting crack down recently.......... with me at least.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Just keep the rocks hidden in your sock.

 

[Ed O]

Title changed? Really, Ed O?

Really.

Ed O.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Really.

Ed O.

You suck.

 

[Ed O]

You suck.

Eek.

Drunk admin alert!

Ed O.

 

[Natebishop3]

Find out where they sleep Mook. Actually, if you put out a salt lick or something, I'd bet they'd show up. Now you just need to think of a creative way to make the little bastards suffer!

 

[Colonel Ronan]

That's a little excessive ya fuckin' hick!

 

[illmatic99]

Do it.

All vermin should just die.

I live in a pretty fucked up part of Philly (in a rowhouse), and the owners in the adjacent apt are renovating, and since then, I've been noticing mice in my apt. I've already caught two of the little shits in traps. Hate seeing them around. I've set traps all over and even have a few of those ultrasound things that emit a noise these things apparently hate..

I have dealt with mice in labs, and have once ("sacrificed" in the scientific realm) about 10 in an hour to harvest their spleens. I think they're getting back at me by appearing in my apt.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I think you just need to chill.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Or get a cat, you dumb fuck.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Any update on the raccoons?

 

[illmatic99]

I think you just need to chill.

Lol, ya. It just pisses me off, because I try to keep my place as clean as possible, and they still like my place for some reason. I don't like cats.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Lol, ya. It just pisses me off, because I try to keep my place as clean as possible, and they still like my place for some reason. I don't like cats.

True. If a chick sees a mouse in your house... Uh oh.

 

[mook]

Any update on the raccoons?

I've tried baiting the fucker with a banana smeared with peanut butter. My brother suggested that the bait said more about me than people should really know. Something about Freud. Anyway, the raccoon was not impressed either. Also doesn't seem to care for toast or carrots.

Did catch a squirrel, though. Let him out.

I think I need to go with meat. I've been disinclined to do so because there are so many damned cats in the neighborhood, and cats aren't my quarry. Then I thought, "Fuck them." The trap doesn't really harm the critter, and it'd do some of the cats around here some good to spend the night in stir.

I might have to hold off for a week, though. I gotta go out of town, and I want to have my undivided attention focused on the beast.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Try dog or cat food. They love that stuff!