Is it just me/my area or are there about 5x as many raccoons as normal this year?

[miguel]

Haven't noticed that, but the rabbits are out of control here.

I have seen more rabbits in the last 30 days than the last 30 years!

 

[KokomoDave]

The trash pandas are back for revenge since they are tired of being marginalized by cats, dogs, coyotes, bobcats and man especially those with boom sticks according to their website on the dark web.

 

[Bucky623]

Had a mama coon and six little ones come across the yard and go up a mulberry tree. The clumsy ones would come tumbling down and scamper back up into the tree.

 

[yetti462]

I shot #28 last night at my house. My mountain Feist trees them and I for the sake of my family's sleep and the chickens dispatch them. I live on a ridge between the white river and Guthrie creek and live in a travel route of the trash panda. I have said I shoot one and 10 move in. Road to town is littered with them.

All of the local coon hunters have permission to hunt as long as they shoot them out. They are obviously not doing their job .

Between me and my neighbor to the west, we have hammered the coons. We've both noticed better turkey numbers too. So I say, kill a coon and save a nest .

 

[duanewade]

I've not killed any this year but need to set traps out in the garden as the wife is telling me that the raccoon are eating our veggies. She's seen raccoon tracks several places in the garden so I know I need to start thinning the local population.

Two years ago my neighbor and I killed over 70 between the 2 of us.i Veatch 'em in leg holds or catch em alive traps and let them meet their maker.

 

[bgcatty]

They just keep multiplying like crazy! I’ve seen an awful lot of them as “road kills” all over Indiana roads lately. Must have been a fertile spring for them.

 

[Remington 90T]

Thiry years ago, a friend bought a new pickup with one years' worth of coon hides. Today you can't give them away -Main reason pheasant population is down.

 

[littletommy]

We have a few here on the Ohio River, but not as many as years past. There are more dogs in the neighborhood now than ever, I think all of the houses close to me have at least one dog. I think more dogs, and the land just west of us being designated as a park have made the wildlife move farther into the woods? I have only seen one groundhog this year, no rabbits, and very few coons.

We did have a small buck in the side yard the other night, and I get deer on my front yard camera several times a week.

 

[klausm]

Yes it seems to be more. I have a super raccoon breaking into the chicken pen to eat their food - it moves large rocks, digs under fences and bends fence wires apart to get in.
There need to be more r corpses along the roads.

I have the bast**ds brother here, that coop has been safe for 15 years till this spring. He actually bent the end plate of a live trap and managed his escape, and learned from it!

 

[patience0830]

Had a mama coon and six little ones come across the yard and go up a mulberry tree. The clumsy ones would come tumbling down and scamper back up into the tree.

They only fall down once if you hit 'em right.

 

[jd4320t]

There are definitely more in Putnam County this year. Pretty much can’t go down a road and not see one dead. I’ve seen countless youngins running without their mommas. We’ve had three come in our back porch pet door.

Maybe the bobcats will thin them out.

 

[Cameramonkey]

More in SW Marion Co. on the mile and a half drive to church the other evening, I counted 5 road kill.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

When people trash talk about having wmls on rifles and edc handguns, i figure they are city kids, because racoons.

 

[Bstarkey_46947]

 

[manifest destiny]

We seem to have tons more this year than I recall seeing in years prior. The road kill (mostly young) between here and town has become a de facto 'coon grave yard. I mean there are a lot! My other concern this year is that I've noticed several displaying signs of distemper. This year is the first I've ever noticed multiple sick racoons.

 

[Rookie]

Dispatched another one last night...

 

[Emerson Dambiggins]

In less than a week, I've taken out 5 coons and 4 skunks. Looks like it's going to be a busy summer.

 

[Chase515]

I set two dozen traps on my other property today. Already trapped 6 this year around the house.