Good Boy!

Good for your dog!

We have owned several terriers over the years and they don't quit until they are ready to that's for sure! Great dogs though and the farm life is perfect for them!

I had a friend many years ago that had a pet coon that went crazy(supposedly got the taste of blood) and attacked me. I know firsthand how strong they are, and still have the scars. I have turned my dogs loose on many critters, but never a coon, they just treed and shot on my property. I'm sure it helped with the dogs ganging up on it, but I would be proud of the dogs, especially the JRT you know it was smallest in the fight.

They are thick here too (coons that is), hands down they have been the most destructive animal we have had to deal with as far as chicken killing goes, and we have a bobcat and fox family nearby.

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I'm happy to hear that he wasn't hurt badly.

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A coon is the reason I bought my first gun. Woke up one morning to drizzle and fog..which must have shorted out the electric fence around my garden corn. The coon discovered his good luck and proceeded to tear every ear off of each stalk of corn, take a bite, decide it wasn't ripe enough and move on till he took one bite out of every ear in the garden. Rotten little sob....

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Our JRT would never give up the fight.. She LOVES coon... to eat.... fresh --or coon "jerky" ( old dried up parts of bodies!!!). She rarely gets hurt... only once did we take her to the vet.. still don't know WHAT she attacked that time.. Usualy she just makes LOTS of noise and we bring the gun to finish the coon off..

Anyone here ever read the book "Rascal" by Sterling North? True story of the friendship between a boy in Wisconsin and his pet raccoon during the early 20th century. It's a great book and it will give one insight to the personality and intelligence of raccoons. They are fascinating creatures, and a pleasure to see when they aren't being destructive or a nuisance to farmers and gardeners.

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A fish farmer friend of mine had his black lab go after a coon. When the coon tried swimming across one of his ponds the dog caught up to it and the coon drowned the dog. He waded out with a shovel and wacked the coon until it let loose but the dog just floated. He dragged the limp dog to the shore and pushed on it's chest until it revived. The dog woke up and tore off after the coon again......

I think the critical part of eating coon is get rid of every bit of fat possible. Boiling before roasting would help.

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I did not know this! Thank you for the info!

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One night last week my little JRT cornered a possum under the back porch. When I walked out the back door to see what was going on, it sounded like the fight was on and I was just imagining my JRt being shredded. I ran back in the house to fetch my .22 and by the time I came out, Bullet (my beagle) had managed to get ahold of it and dragged it out from under the porch. The possum was playing dead by this time. A few seconds later he was really dead. My wife (like Jackie) questioned me on why it had to die. My response was, "cause it was probably in on the corn stalk massacre that took place in my garden this last summer", and quit possible the "hen house massacre that took place the summer before".

Any raccoon or possum that comes around this place is gonna die if the dogs get after it.

Forgot to mention, my JRT came out looking just fine. All the growling and barkind was more intense then the actual fighting.

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sorry jackie but you wont feel that way when you find your rabbits pulled thru the cage wire eaten when a coon gets in the shed, if you have chickens and a coon gets into the coop it will kill every one of them just because it can, if a coon stays in the woods its well and safe and a beutiful thing but if it comes onto the farm it does not belong and will be quickly dispatched

Coons and owls..... both tough to share space with when your trying to grow out chickens and rabbits. I saw a video on u-tube where a owl had chewed through chicken wire to get into a hen house............ before he was dispatched with extreme prejudice.

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A side note on the rabies mentioned in the beginning of the thread. Our local vet told us once that 70% of the raccoons hit by cars are rabid. They get confused in their illness, wander on the highway and SPLAT!

Personally, all raccoons found on our property are dispatched without prejudice. They have been in the attic and in the garage, also have tried to tear through a small hole we pass electrical cables for our generator through.

The last one came visiting over the weekend. I think it thought the dogs weren't around and got fooled. We found it perched on the top of the fence panel on the dog kennel trying to tear its way through the kitchen window with our border collie, ACD and schnauzer mix raising all sorts of holy hallelujah below. DH had to shoot it through the kitchen window screen with a 40 cal carbine to keep it from winding up on our breakfast table. Clean neck shot. It never knew what it hit. Unfortunately, the animal couldn't figure out that all it had to do to escape was back down off the fence it had climbed leading us to believe it wasn't as healthy as it looked.

A neighbor lost a lot of chickens this spring to another raccoon. I think they are great animals. IF they stay where they belong.

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I don't buy this for a second. If this were the case there would be an epidemic that would be front page news. I see road killed coons (fresh ones) every day. I coon hunted for years and after seeing thousands of coon Only 2 of them looked ill and my guess is that they had distemper.

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Libertarindependent

Yes Rabies in coons is not as common as that vets claims. I have seen several with distemper.

I didn't even realize until this thread that raccoons would kill other animals like that. I am not sure what I thought they ate...but ya..I had no idea.

And the OP did say it was an empty barn. He never once mentioned the safety of other animals.

I live in town anyway. So I don't worry about raccoons and coyotes and such.

My little JRT kills 'coons as quickly. She grabs them by the scruff of the neck and shakes as hard as she can, even when they are twice as big as her. She goes up fruit trees after them. There is no calling her off! It scares the heck out of me, sometimes she's covered in blood but so far it's never been hers.

If it's right close in the yard, I'll go out. A lot of the times it's out in the underbrush and goes on all night, I don't bother going out to look for the carcasses.

I doubt the percentage of rabies in raccoons dead on the road. The dead ones on the road around here are because some people, who shall remain anonymous, throw salmon heads out there in the wee hours of the morning before the logging trucks are rolling.

liveing in town does not eximpt you from preditors, there are just as many Coons in town if not MORE than out in the country, there is everything they need, hideing in hollow trees and attics, and Coyotes are moveing into town too now,

Maybe in Alabama....

I live in northern canada. Like I said in an earlier post...I have only ever seen two raccoons in the wild in my life and they were dead. They were also about 5 hours south of here. I don't think raccoons are this far north.

And this town is overrun with wild packs of dogs. So ya...the only thing I have to work about is them. I put up an electric page wire fence around my rabbits and it works exactly the way it should.

Coyotes in town are so rare that if one DOES happen to wander into a town somewhere in Saskatchewan it makes the news.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewa...on-coyote.html