OT: I caught a bandit the other night....

You want some coon skins, just drive around in the chicago suburbs for a while.

This week alone there were three roadkills on my 12 minute route to work. If at some point there is NOT a rotting carcass somewhere, I'm surprised.

;)

if its a stray, you can try 'relocating' it... I regularly do said relocations of strays that get to close to my cats' food trys...

Relocating is not permitted by the local DNR [department of natural resources]. DNR wants it released where caught or preferably terminated.

There are too many coons and not enough trapping due to PETA destroying the fur market.

Sure I want coon skins. Butt without skid marks. I just can't get my schedule turned around during trapping season. :-( A local trapper [one of the very few around] traps yotes in the burbs during prime season.

A yote parka would be nice ;-) This year I have seen the most yotes ever in Ohio.

different local laws, I guess :)

ODNR is for the state of ohio but they do make the rules for the counties to go by. Each county in the state has a game warden who enforces those rules. Some game wardens may cover more than one county.

Each state has their own version of DNR and sets the state laws on "game" [non domesticated] animals.

This one didn't care at all about me being around. The dog however was a different story. I guess a lack of trapping and hunting by the humans has taught this coon a lot. So has the hunting of dogs. ;-) Round here the yotes are starting to get braver. I recone they will start packing together sooner or later. Now ifn we could only teach them to go after them there PETA members.... :-)

It's not uncommon for us to come home late afternoon or early evening to find the cats and a coon sharing a food bowl at the same time. Even have a possum that joins in. There they all are, just having a food fest and being the best of friends. Stupid cats.

Our biggest pain in the butt currently is several very large red foxes. These suckers are huge. I keep waiting for a cat to go missing.

Randy

Mmmmm. Very large red fox. I wish I could get my schedule turned around during trapping season. :-(

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:27:11 GMT, "\(O\\|/O\)\(.\\~/.\)" shared the following:

mmmm.... Coon 'n dumplin's. Jest like maw used to make.

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Ifn Ida node dat I culda cent ya sum. yotes proly et it by now.

They caught a mountion lion in the middle of Omaha last week.

Randy

The neighborhood we just moved into had a pretty bad woodchuck and coon issue.....until we moved in.....Millie (our coonhound) has taken out 4 chucks, one opossum, and one heron (got 2 of my koi before she caught it). No coons caught, but none hanging around any more either....surprisingly....she hasn't bothered the local cats (including the

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