This is one of many reasons I don’t intentionally feed raccoons.
“Local Idiot Learns Why You Shouldn’t Continuously Feed Scavenging Pack Animals, Neighbors, Common Sense Vindicated”
Woman Calls 911 When 100 Aggressive Raccoons Show Up in Her Yard | The Washington State resident fed some friendly critters for years. Then, their mean friends turned up.
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s not a hard problem to solve, raccoons are very smart, and if you stop feeding him, they’ll eventually disperse.
In the meantime, it’s kind of a cute oafish story. Feeling a wild raccoon isn’t going to make it forget how to scavenge, or take care of itself. If you live in a remote area, probably not doing any long-term damage to their wild habits, aside from this one feeding ground they will have to move on from.
Aside from her not having a game plan for getting around a raccoon bum rush, the biggest concern I would have would be that raccoons are a reservoir species for rabies in the area.
Not sure when exactly this raccoon party fully kicked off, but they’re breeding season is spring and summer, which I believe coincide with a spike in rabies transmission…so…not ideal.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gizmo caca!
Today@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A friend had 6 raccoons in her garage. She chased 4 out and then made a trail of dog food leading from the garage to the driveway, but she forgot that the trail also led from the driveway to the garage.