I loved your suggestion of a laser sight i used to have one years ago, and it worked SO well, way less hassle than trying to get a regular peep sight to hit anything. That said, I am sad that Von wants to shoot the poor little raccoons, and they will die a miserable death with the BB lodged inside of their body. We lost a dog that way (many years ago) and the vet said that the poor dog had a lot of BB’s lodged just under his skin, so the neighbor boys must have been using Casey as their target for a while and we just didn’t know it. We do not like the squirrels eating all of the grapes and other fruit, but both Bobby and I agreed that we would rather scare them away with the motion-sensor water blast than shoot them.
I just want everyone to understand that I have been dealing with these raccoons before I started this thread and yes, my first thoughts was to kill them. They have disrupted my life in a way that you have to experience it firsthand to understand how it makes me feel. You can't do that. My intent has become to the point to just keep them away as best as I can anyway that I can not having to use a real gun with real bullets to do it. Now with that being said I will continue on with my mission to shoot one with my bb gun and I have no sympathy to what happens to it afterward.
They are destructive and they carry diseases. They have no place in the suburbs. They are pests in that environment. What you are doing is not your fault...it's the fault of absentee animal control agencies. In a perfect world, it would have been addressed after your first phone call.
I would treat them in the same manner as I would handle rats or other problem critters. Would everyone want to trap rats and release them into the wild to be other people's problem? Not me. I would probably poison them if I could find no other way.
I had a critter problem a couple winters ago. I never saw it, but it apparently found a home under my neighbor's shed and would dig under the chain link fence and into my yard and dig for something. I think it was an opossum. I put some rat poison in little Italian meat balls and eventually no more critter. It was him or me.
Guess you called animal control? Then again, they may not help much. Like I mentioned .one night with Foxy on the porch and no more coon. But then a dog presents other problems for us seniors.
The raccoons are coming from a nearby abandoned property. Somewhere buried in this thread are Von's futile efforts to get the local government to address the property and the raccoons.
The more I read thru this thread, the more sensible and easier 'a small to medium size ' yard dog would be to solve this problem. Not a neurotic one like these two abused ones we have dealt with for 2 years now. But a nice normal sane pup someone is giving away. All the money spent on ammo and tricks would cover the dog food and cheap doghouse. Von is your yard fenced?
Yes, when I first encountered them. I also called the city housing about them and no help there either.