Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on July 22, 2005 at 14:19:44 from (209.71.222.43):

In Reply to: Re: COONS IN THE CORN!!!!!!!!!!!!! posted by Rappin DJ on July 22, 2005 at 08:16:07:

No kidding. It's against the law to relocate a racoon unless you kill it. We live about forty miles from the U.S. border. The Ministry of Natural Resources of Ontario wanted to keep U.S. rabies out, so over two years they innoculated every racoon they could find in a 50 mile band across the province.

Retired conservation officers and trappers did most of the live-trapping which went on for two summers. They tagged the innoculated racoons and compiled some interesting statistics in the process. In our twenty-acre woodlot, for example, the MNR guy tagged 16 racoons. (I have killed two since then, and neither had a tag.)

The theory is that the racoons are territorial and a population of innoculated animals is the best deterrent to the spread of the disease.

The problem is they are notorious hitch-hikers in trucks and R.V's. That's why there are so many of the pests in cities.

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