A not so cute picture

[Ken_Shea]

Inside my shop I built a show room (when I had the gun store) that was also a vault about 30x19 inside with a ceiling that is secure as well and also lower then the original ceiling, in this space I have been hearing noises, more recently a lot of fussing, figured it was these critters. Now what to do. Don't want to shoot them, it pretty late in the year to trap and re-locate them but they are so damned destructive I need to do something.

This was taken just minutes ago.

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[MTNGUN]

Awwww, they are so cute ....... unless they are destroying your property.

[Ken_Shea]

Awwww, they are so cute ....... unless they are destroying your property.

In the back of the shop used for storage they have done a lot of ceiling damage. They are just trying to survive the best they can, it's not like raccoons try to be destructive, they just are destructive, that's the long and short of it. I hate to shoot them, I really do.
Any opinions on trapping and re-locating this time of the year?

[mark61]

Take a que from the SPCA, PETA and other "humain" sociaties. Run a gasoline engine in that area for a couple hours.

mark61

[dave5605]

Look in your local yellow pages and call a pest/critter trapping outfit. Pay the money and let them figure out what to do with them after they catch them. They will also have experience getting any babies without them dying inside and stinking up the place.

The last one my daughter hired took squirrels (that got in a cathedral ceiling) about 50 miles and released them into the wilderness/woods.

[kc5ezc]

Feeding 'coons? Gross! We live trap them and have a coon hunter that takes them to his farm and releases them. He keeps a feeder out at all time, so there are fresh tracks to start training the dogs with. Destructive little critters. This way the coon lives and preforms a useful function and he doesn't bother us any more. If you need small ones to play with see your Laz-Boy dealer. He has stuffed ones that are better than the real ones and don't tear anything up and you don't have to feed them.

[Ken_Shea]

Look in your local yellow pages and call a pest/critter trapping outfit. Pay the money and let them figure out what to do with them after they catch them. They will also have experience getting any babies without them dying inside and stinking up the place.

The last one my daughter hired took squirrels (that got in a cathedral ceiling) about 50 miles and released them into the wilderness/woods.

Not going to pay money when it is such an easy task to do myself and then I will know how they were disposed of.

[Ken_Shea]

Take a que from the SPCA, PETA and other "humain" sociaties. Run a gasoline engine in that area for a couple hours.

mark61

My raccoons, I'll get rid of them my way not some red-neck and brag about it later method.

[C - ROSS]

They are cute

Keep em feed em teach em to growl and then call em watch dogs.

Ross

[Ken_Shea]

They are cute

Keep em feed em teach em to growl and then call em watch dogs.
Ross

ha-ha, they are some bad to the bone critters you get one backed into a corner. They are healthy and fat, I know they eat the cat food I put outside. I have seen three of them out side eating the cat food with cats not two feet away perfectly content.