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Calling animal control is certainly more humane for all parties, including the well being of the house.
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Around my house, I AM animal control. My methods usually involve CB longs.
 
You do realize that raccoons carry rabies and other diseases, right? Rabies do not necessarily have to be in the form of an outbreak with 'coons. They can merely be carriers. As an aside, 'coons are about 20lbs and a hell of a lot more vicious than dog 3x its size.

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I had a friend whose step-brother off'd himself at home, in his room, with a shotgun. My friend had to clean it up.

According to PETA, a racoon is 1/100 the size of a human being, but even with rational ratios I still wouldn't want that mess on my hands. Not when I could take advantage of my tax dollars already spent on animal control professionals. Seriously, shooting up one's home because an outside critter came inside? That's outlandish behavior.
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I love raccoons to death. I think they're adorable fuzzy bunches of fun.

That said, I won't let one in my house because they're a wild animal, and any one that wants to associate with people is probably rabid. Sorry, my fuzzy friend, rabies is bad news.
 
Seriously, shooting up one's home because an outside critter came inside? That's outlandish behavior.
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Regardless of whether he shot the animal inside his house or on his property, it is HIS property. Not your property. Not PETA's property. His property. As the owner of the property, he may do as he pleases. There's nothing outlandish about shooting a wild animal that will not stop trying to enter your home. That's not normal behavior for a wild animal, and it is unacceptable; wild animals carry disease (such as rabies), and will seriously hurt a dog, child, or adult.

If the animal is hostile and/or destructive, and inside, and one wants to kill it, seems like the better tool for the job would be an object with which to bludgeon. Improvise a trap or just go toe to toe with a baseball bat, but shooting inside at a really fast, tiny target? Crazy.
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The best tool for killing a wild animal is whatever the property owner chooses to use. If you want to have to get close enough to a wild animal with a baseball bat to smash it (which may or may not kill it quickly), that is your decision; same with waiting around while the animal may or may not decide to enter your trap. But the homeowner in this case chose to use a firearm that quickly and safely killed the animal. If a homeowner wishes to use a firearm to shoot an animal inside the home, it is his decision (once again, not your decision, and not PETA's decision); some of us actually have the skill to quickly and safely kill the animal with the firearm. But you stick with your baseball bat. :rolleyes:
 
If the animal is hostile and/or destructive, and inside, and one wants to kill it, seems like the better tool for the job would be an object with which to bludgeon. Improvise a trap or just go toe to toe with a baseball bat, but shooting inside at a really fast, tiny target? Crazy.
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So you would rather get within contact distance with a potentially rabid animal? That is like saying shooting a burglar would make a mess so I should use my baseball bat.

I might have misread it but the way the article is written it does not look like the animal made it inside. He did choose to pursue it and whether killing it after a chase was warrented is a judgement call. Mid-day is an unusual time for a nocturnal animal to be active. Could be recently kicked out youngins, could be bad weather related, or it be rabies.

Only the guy at the scene really had any way of judging the actual cause. PETA is out of line (again) ;)
 
It's good to know that if I see any rabid wild animals outside in the snow I can just bring them to a PETA member's nice warm house and let them on in. What nice and friendly folks!
 
He's more man that I am - I wouldn't let PETA people stay at my house, and if I did, they certainly wouldn't get breakfast!
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Oh, I'd serve 'em breakfast alright...but I don't think they'd like the spread I put in front of them!
 
ahh p.e.t.a. .... they had a protest downtown last month ....(meat is murder B.S.) i put my " People for the Eating of Tasty Animals"...shirt on and sat infront of them in between the news cameras and had my lunch.... a big greezy cheese burger...lol i asked the officer if i could sit there and he laughed and told me its public property ;) (the peta hippys were laughing too)
 
Coons pass rabies to their offspring and they eventually die from the rabies. I've seen estimates that half the raccoons have rabies. We had a family here who was keeping a coon as a pet. The woman called 911 that the coon was ripping off her babies face. The child was badly injured and I personally know that the child has had almost a dozen operations and he is still very disfigured. I agreed to let the boy come and ride my horses. I SHOOT ANY COONS IN MY BARN OR IN THE VICINITY OF MY HOUSE. My neighbor feeds them and has several she has named. She thought it was terrible that I shot them. A couple of months ago I got several frantic calls from her while I was at work. She had a rabid coon in her dog kennel and had called the county. The county told her to shoot the coon and they did not take care of "critter problems" outside of city limits. When I got home, I got out my .22 and went to her house. She was crying, and the coon was wobbling around, spitting, and shaking with tremors. RABIES!!! One of her dogs was cowering and bleeding. I politely told her that shooting the coon was humane and it was the only thing that one could do. Then I told her she could just go inside and I would take care of things. Shot the coon in the head, with a fast food wrapper picked him up by the tail and tossed him on the hood of my car. It was raining so instead of burning him up in my barrel, (I toss a log in with them and all that's left is ashes) I dropped him down a deep hole that I found a couple days earlier. I after five years in the country, she learned the facts of life.
 
He killed a coon with a 9 mm Desert Eagle.Wow most people on this forum can't even kill a possum with a 45acp he must have had very good shot placement. I wonder if it was a one shot kill,what angle he shot it from ,if he was using fmj or maybe he had some tacticool drt ammo. Ha ha I'd vote for him.
 
One other thing I've learned about "pest control": a .22 will kill a coon just as fast as any other caliber. I've put it to the test: 22 in one hand and 9mm, 380,38 special, 357, 40, or 45 in the other hand. That's when I manage to trap two. I've even trapped two in the same trap. Killed 14 coons in six days once.
 
My Grandma used to shoot possums with a single shot Sears and Roebuck 22 from the hip. I tried to teach her how to aim ,she looked at me like I was crazy and said "I aint missed yet." Hard to argue with.
 
Shot one coon point blank in the head with my nephews $35 .177 air gun, pumped up 8 times, and with a "pointy" hunting pellet. I had a .22 pistol in case it wasn't humane enough. The air gun killed the coon quick enough to consider it humane. It wasn't quite as fast as a 22, but it did the job.
 
Isn't it HIGHLY unusual...

... for a coon to be active in the winter? Especially during a heavy snowstorm?

I'd suspect rabies. :uhoh:
 
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