#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

BYE. BYE RACCOON, SHOULDN'T OUGHTA EATEN OUR CHICKEN

 This raccoon has been coming here for a couple of years. She was cute and adorable until one day she decided to eat Joe, our rooster. Mary looked out the window and saw Joe in the raccoons mouth. With a shriek she ran out and broke it up. With a cedar board in hand Mary tried to beat the raccoon senseless but in terror, it got away, up a tree.

We had this animal trap for a couple of years which we bought to trap a raccoon that was living in the eves of our house. Fortunately he left. 

Mary brought the trap back to life. She prepared carefully and we got to see "Rolli" the raccoon walk in and become trapped the morning after Joe almost lost his life. Rolli was transported to a new home turf miles away from P2. She was very glad we did not kill her. 

Here are the last known photos of Rolli. Good bye ass hole!

Ringo Playing 6-27-21

 We caught Ringo in one of his playful moods this morning, and he put on a show for us.  We love Ringo!

 

 

Ringo Pingo coming home after a couple of days of adventure... He's VERY Hungry

 

June 29, 2020 Baby Racons!

Another great baby racon pic. I hope they come every day!

RINGO THE RACCOON PIGS OUT

RINGO THE RACCOON PIGS OUT

Today at P2

Here's a quick video update.

Angel (our little wood duck) was here visiting, enjoying corn, swimming around with her friends.  We hadn't seen her for a few days so I'm glad to see she's happy, healthy, and hungry!

We stock SUPER LARGE marshmallows as a racon treat...  here's why!

Bucket :D

This is why we fill bucket.  Bears in pajamas are so cute.

Ringo Pingo Gets a Meatball

What can I say... we love Ringo.  He's a friendly little raccoon who came to live here when he was pretty young.  He sleeps in the tree and comes down in the morning for black oil sunflower seed and occasionally a meatball treat (Mark cooks for Ringo LOL).

Awwww!  He just started eating out of my hand this week.

Ringo Pingo

We have a racon pet we've named Ringo Pingo.  He gets special feeding stations of black oil sunflower seed, and occasionally hamburgers :D

We love looking into his beautiful eyes.

Racon Infestation!

Raycon infestation at P2 :D

Raccoon Bucket Party

Baby Raccoons Feb 17 2017!

We saw our first baby raccoons this week on February 17th .... a  pack of 3 running around together.  One of the three followed mom closely, and the other two were adventurous, staying within 20 feet but not worrying too much about being beside her.  The one close to her ate Ol Racon, but the other two weren't hungry and probably drank all of the milk earlier.

So, for the future, we'll remember to look for babies early to mid February.

RACON, RACON, RACON

Had to have one last cute raccoon photo to close 2016.

Here is a fat little guy who broke into a bag of Ole Roy (he has a very sensitive palate), he is enjoying himself and is very comfortable. 

Dog? Dog? Dog?

Raccoon Tracks

We had been keeping the level of the main pond high, but it was creating too much of a wetlands around the pond.  We're looking to do some planting of majesty palms on the south west corner of the pond, so we needed it to dry up a bit.  After cutting back on the well which feeds the pond, we found beautiful raccoon tracks in the mossy soil that was revealed where the wetlands dried up.

More Animal Tracks

FOOTPRINTS TELL THE TALE 
Raccoons, opossums, coyotes, deer, wild pigs and more run wild at night, their footprints in the mud are the only clues they leave behind. By morning they're all back in their burrows for a nice nap through the day.

Are these deer tracks?  Feral hog tracks?  I'm just not sure...

More raccoon tracks

GEICO RACCOONS!

Loving Raccoons... It's what you do.  Thank you GEICO!!!

Cute Baby Raccoons!

UBER!

This winter we had a couple of raccoon babies show up unexpectedly.  I guess raccoons can breed year round... why wait until spring?  Anyhow, one of the babies we named Uber Nano (for nano raccoon) showed up around February as a tiny baby.  Uber was amazing to watch grow up... especially amazing because he did it without a mom!  She ditched him young, and he lived alone in the oak tree right outside our kitchen.  Uber is a very playful little raccoon, very kitten like with his chasing bugs and jumping in and out of the plants.  So you are wondering... how do we know this is Uber?  Look on his forehead...  he apparently pissed off an older raccoon who hit him over the head with his claw.  Uber has a mark on his forehead so we always know it's him.  Enjoy the cuteness!