racoon this morning

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there  was a racoon on my porch this morning  about 8;30  2 hours after sunrise

his tail was mostly gone and he was all wet  and matted and  looked bad

he  seemed to move  ok
he ate the cats food  had a drink of the cats water  and left

its  been raining a lot  and getting  hot....think he is loosing a winter  coat

i was  always told you should  shoot a racoon  out in daylight
i  have  also  had wild half tame  coons come up on job sights at  lunch time  every day

what would you  do??
i am thinking  just shoot it  to be safe  if he comes back
but if  he knows to come back  he  is probly  not sick

[ncsurveyor]

Kill it.

Aside from the time honored treatise that daylight coons should be considered rabid, I don't want them feeling welcome at my house.  The first time I forget to feed the cat, I don't need little Ricky feeling its OK to come through the screen.  Least of all, if he does get into a disagreement with a rabid animal, I certainly don't want it to manifest itself outside my front door.

Take a page from Apocolypse Now, and terminate it with extreme prejudice.

[Questor]

Sadly, I would kill it. Animals in that condition are potentially too dangerous to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[mechanic]

If you got little critters or little people around, I wouldn't take a chance.  My wife has a little Pomeranian that would be just dumb enough to try on a coon if she saw one, and the end result would somehow be my fault.  I've killed two coons already.  (I live in town).  The coons here show almost no fear, and if you shoo them they just sit back and hiss at you.

[hunt-m-up]

Not worth waiting to see if that coon is trouble, pop him the next time to see him. Next thing you know he's chewing on the trim or trying to get into the house.

[slim rem 7]

 a good size coon can carry a big tom cat off.,,an will ,if you don t stop him.. slim

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i  have seen  the younger  coons  hanging out with the cats

the  cats  give  the possums  a dirty  look  and  don;t  like them

my  little  cat  is  not much bigger than a squirrel  and  is  the boss cat around  here
she  is  hard as  a rock  and  bad.... too  wild   to take her to the vet......she  is about 6 now