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The great backyard feedlot!
« on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:18pm » |
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See the baby racoon - isn't he cute?
See the pond fish - aren't they cute?
Last night the cute little racoon, all his sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles tried to eat my cute little fish! Tore up half my plants in the process. I assume the fish were smart enough to hide under the waterfall since they were all accounted for this morning. Now they're covered by a net.
Guess I can't pet them anymore. 
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #1 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:25pm » |
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I no like racoons. Last Thurs. I left for work (4:45am) as I walked down the steps off my porch I was greeted by a snarling coon, as I was about to crap my pants and run away screaming like a girl, my Lab, Luke, jumped off the porch and killed it. Damn good dog.
Your net may not keep the crafty coons out of your pond.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #2 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:42pm » |
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Lunch 
Thanks for the reminder. I tend not to eat
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #3 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:56pm » |
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on Sep 20th, 2005, 12:42pm, E-Double wrote:Lunch
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Almost forgot...I need to get a trap for the EFFING ground hogs in my yard. My wife is getting tired of me using my 12 Ga. in our residential neighborhood.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #4 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 12:56pm » |
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #5 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 1:13pm » |
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I've lived with LARGE RODENT racoons for a long time out here in the woods and I hate them things......they are VERY determin'd and they will be back every nite once they find something of interest. So you mite want to check your pond off and on cuz they will kill them all and ruin the water......they are totall messy and will tear everything up to get to them ruining the bank and plants and anything else includeing turnin the water to muck. You may need to intall a fence around the pond with cover......unless it is high enuff and not sure how high one will climb since they also climb trees. Be sure and use strong fence.....they used to rip my chicken fence apart to get to the chickens every single nite or grab one and pull it thru the wire and shred it. What a gross mess. The babies will learn to do one stop shopping at your house also every nite....and so on and so on and so on. Here they rip up trash (I pour bleach over it which I am sure the trash man doesn't apprciate) and they also walk al around my house and dig up flowers and stuff off and on. I planted some big things this summer after dinner......they ripped everyone of them plants out of the ground and tore up the roots cuz they apparently smelled FOOD on them !!! They pileage at the nearby campgounds at nite. All you can hear is everyone trash and trash cans rattleing at once all over the campgrounds and things falling OVER they were into. Creepy critters Pam
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #6 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 1:16pm » |
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Nice pics! Thanks for sharing them! 
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #7 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 1:36pm » |
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Well, at least I know i'm not alone in my fight with nature... 
Hope your fishies survive!
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #8 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 2:09pm » |
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I hate the racoons too. On another thread I already posted this, but I had some trouble too when I moved into my house last year.
The house has a pool in the backyard, and we live next to a state park which has a large lake with mangroves. There are thousands of racoons in that park, and 2x per week they come into our neighborhood to raid the trash cans (we put our our trash the night before pickup 2x week, as the trash truck comes early). The critters know the schedule! As it goes, the suckers get thirsty while they eat, so they would come up over my fence and drink out of my pool. Then they sh..t in my pool too! That's right, they take a crap in the water. Bastards!
So, I called animal control, and they suggested I put a motion sensing lamp in my backyard. Now when the critters come up and over the fance, the very bright light turns on and scares them away. The light shuts itself off after 10 minutes. I payd $15 at the Home Depot.
They've learned not to come anymore, as I hardly get the light to turn on in the middle of the night.
Maybe you can install some lights in your backyard and protect your fish. They will eat them, and crap in your pond too.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #9 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 2:48pm » |
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Yeah and they will KEEP comeing back till every single one of them fish are gone.......they eat alot of our crayfish in the creek along the house and you can hear them turning over rocks at nite (crows get the crayfish too when around in summer).....I have small dams of rock built to fill my systern and they RIP all that shit out lookin in the muck for frogs and crayfish. Take whatever measures you need to to protect your fish and pond cuz I have fought with raccoons for MANY years here and they have destroyed alot....even got into grain and open'd containers in the barn areas. Crapped in my hay too esp on top the bales......I think the parks and campgrounds need to support some sort of raccoon control. At the campgrounds we go to nearby I seen them at nite on freinds campers steps TRYING to work the door open !!!!! They go thru boxes or anything left out and handle it.....they feel up everything and make it dirty and stinky. When we had HUGE campouts with friends we had alot of stuff to put away at nite and return dureing the day but we knew we HAD to do it cuz they really made a mess one year stealing bags of buns and rippin open chips bags and opening containers with food stuff spreading it all around and FIGHTING over it. I had one chewin on a pop can next to my head in the tent and that is about as bad as chalk on a chalkboard. All I did all nite was run them things OFF. OK.....as you can tell I am aniti-coon Pam
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #10 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 3:54pm » |
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See the high powered Halogen light?
See the neat over and under Mossberg 12 guage?
See my neat new coon skin cap?
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #11 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 4:39pm » |
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OMG! Did you notice the ad at the bottom of this thread?
It's for "live pond turtles" delivered right to your door! In my case it would be live pond turtles delivered right to the varmints' mouths.
I guess I'm going to have to learn to use that BB Gun, afterall. Still, I'm afraid I'll shoot my own eye out!
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #12 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 4:45pm » |
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on Sep 20th, 2005, 3:54pm, don wrote:See the high powered Halogen light?
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Funny stuff, Don.
Anyone have a use for Groundhogs? [asside for target practice...]
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #13 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 8:29pm » |
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I thought about offing the woodchuck that camped out under my garage floor but he was the funniest thing I ever saw. He was so fat that it was hilarious watching him run from me. I kinda miss him.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #14 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 8:38pm » |
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Get a big dog.
or a have a heart trap. Sometimes they are crafty buggers, but if you put something really tasty in there, they might go for it.
The deer ate nearly our entire garden this year.  When we had a bigger dog it kept them away because he marked up the yard as he and barked a lot.
nice pics and good luck!
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #15 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 9:01pm » |
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My dad had the same problem with skunks and his compost pile. He tried covering up the area with plywood, and they burrowed under it. He tried putting tabasco sauce, chili powder and peppers on the area, and they'd take a bite and shake their heads and go back to it. He finally just moved the compost pile so he didn't see it happen - outta sight outta mind! He said he finally knew what it meant to be "outskunked!" (Don't let your fishies outta sight though!)
I was listening to a call in show on the radio one time, and someone had a problem with some wildlife critter (I think it was deer, but I can't remember). The lady on the show said "Buy some Mountain Lion Urine." I guess you can buy this stuff and "mark your territory" and animals will stay away.
Of course, to save money, you could just catch your own cougar and try to get a sample on your own... 
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #16 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 9:07pm » |
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I've shot raccoons on my porch out a window close range with a bb gun and it didn't even hardly faze them.....they'd run off if I hit them but come rite back within a few minutes or run if I scared them and come RITE back. Didn't do a bit of good. I have-a-heart trap I set several nites in a row but even tho it was a big trap the coon was too big and would walk around it tryin to get the bait and set it off or if it went inside and the door slammed it's ass still hung out so it could back out and take off. I was afraid I was goin to catch the neighborhood skunk in the trap and then not know WHAT to do since it was on my front porch. I've heard antifreeze kills them and they like it cuz it is sweet but you don't want them lapping it up with there hands then fishing with the same hands son after. Not sure it is a humane way to go anyhow. Bullets are faster Pam
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #17 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 9:33pm » |
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Well since this apartment complex is right on the edge of a forest on two sides I get to see lots of rabbits and deer grazing on the courtyard and along the road to the north. Spring, winter and fall there are deer and bunnies and squirls and hawks all over the place...
But I have nothing for them to destroy, so it's my own little menagirie...
Oops and I forgot to include the Turkeys!!!! Wild turkeys love to gather in the intersection and are too stupid to move when I'm on my way to work.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #18 on: Sep 20th, 2005, 9:43pm » |
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Get some wire mesh, preferably plastic-coated and dark coloured, and secure it a couple of inches below the pond surface.
You can't see it, your plants will love it, and it gives your little fishies somewhere safe to hide.
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Re: The great backyard feedlot!
« Reply #19 on: Sep 21st, 2005, 12:30am » |
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Hey what happen'd to the live turtles deliver'd to your door add at the bottom of this thread.....dam I was gonna call em to ask if they had any dead ones. Cheaper by the deadones Pam 
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