#8 AND #9 RACCOONS MOVED TO SUNNY SOUTH BREVARD VACATION HOME

 #8 AKA BITEY, HISSY, GROWLY, SPITTY

This little raccoon had a bad night. He's been rampaging our chicken aviary cages, digging his way in questing for food. We don't mind if he visits at night but when he starts invading the chicken play areas then he is only one step away from coming during the daytime and helping himself to a chicken in a most unpleasant manner.

#8 (for short) made a quick escape once he was at his new home.

#9 BABY RACON

This little guy was very daring and would taunt us mercilessly, staying just out of reach but repeatedly coming to eat and rampage the chicken aviary(s), he has a new home in beautiful South Brevard County. His brother is still sneaking around P2, as long as we don't see him in our chicken areas we're cool.

Goodbye Baby Raccoon, another place, another time......

#7 "LEAPER", NOT A HAPPY RACCOON TIL WE LET HER GO

 AKA "Enda Enda" for her wild gyrations, crashing from one end of the trap to the other in desperate attempts to escape from the wonderful "County Line" live animal trap from Tractor Supply Company, the best place to shop for products for life out here :-)

Here she is, "Leaper", now residing in her new home in Southern Brevard County, Florida. She's happy now.

"Leaper", ready to leap for freedom and get outta this Tractor Supply County Line trap

This video answers the question, "Can raccoons run fast?"

and the answer is YES!

HINT: Switch player-speed to .25x and go to about 12 seconds into the video to study the "leap to freedom" in detail, it's a beautiful launch.

#6 "BIG BOY", 50-POUNDER RACCOON, GOOD BYE

 This guy took us three nights to catch, he was not happy about it either. 

"That's a 50-pounder" quote from Robert our exterminator, he does not like raccoons like we do.

This guy was heavy, you could tell by picking up the trap LOL

RACCOON #5, "CRAWLSPACE", LEAVE OUR CHICKENS ALONE!

 For the most part we've gone without much interference from raccoons for the last 10 months, ever since we did a major "tighten-up" on food sources laying around "out here". 

Now, since unknown contractors have been clearing more and more land around our farm to build more $480,000 homes and $2,000/month apartments, raccoons roaming for a home have joined with the rats in overrunning our property at night. 

We hate to move the little guys since they're already having problems with finding a secure place to live but when they are digging into our chicken aviarys, upsetting rat traps and generally causing havoc it ends here, right now, with the help of Tractor Supply Company (that is where we bought our wild animal trap).

Without further introduction here is RACCOON #5, AKA, "CRAWLSPACE". We caught him inside a chicken aviary last night and he's a repeat offender who got away the night before. Not this time, he is now vacationing in the wilds of South-West Brevard County, good bye Crawlspace, be safe!

MEET "CRAWLSPACE"

That's a damn good looking racon

 

 

RACCOON #4, "DIGGIE"

SHOULDN'T AUWTA DUG INTO OUR CHICKEN AVIARYS

 This little guy repeatedly terrorized us by digging into the aviary areas of several of our chicken flocks. Fortunately the chickens are snug in their Formex chicken coops but we still don't like this guy coming and making a mess of food. He had to go. It took us two tries to get him but our second attempt snagged our little intruder. He got a ride over to the wilds of the South-West, to a nice new forest of plants. 

When we opened the cage he ran free, very fast, in less than 2-seconds he was gone out of sight. 

In the pickup, ready for his ride to his new home