Questions tagged [raccoons]
Questions about raccoons
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Why would a raccoon hold its ground in the middle of the road with oncoming traffic?
I was driving on a suburban road at night when I noticed an animal at a distance in the middle of the road. As I approached, I was able to see it was a raccoon. I stopped.
It was just standing in the ...
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How to trap and relocate raccoons?
Raccoons are creating ridiculous problems in our house. They used to eat our garbage and destroyed our vegetable garden. Once we tried to trap them with metal box by placing peanut butter in the ...
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What are the effects of introducing raccoons into Germany?
I was reading this answer about how raccoons were introduced into Germany, and after the other questions on this site about the harm caused by non-native species,(grey squirrels, house sparrows, etc), ...
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Why would a raccoon climb a building?
Yesterday, there was a raccoon climbing a 20 plus story building in Minnesota, today it made it to the top and was caught in a live trap for transport to back to the wild.
It brings up the question, ...
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Could I have a postmortem on this suburban raccoon encounter?
I know this isn't Great Outdoors in the sense of planning a vast trek and seeing vistas, but I wanted to ask for a postmortem on an unwanted great outdoors encounter in the suburbs.
I was getting ...
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