Dispatched a sick raccoon today

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Beware out there.

As I was walking in to my tree stand this morning I came upon a raccoon laying in the trail. I thought him dead at first but then his hind leg twitched a bit and I noticed he was breathing. I didn't see any evidence of trauma like from a gun shot or animal attack, so my first thought was illness, possibly advanced rabies.

I gave him a wide berth and went to my stand.

A few hours later I passed him again on the way out and noticed he was still breathing.

As the day wore on I realized I probably should put him down but I wanted to obviously do it from a distance so there would be no spray toward me.

After we recovered my nephew's afternoon doe we stopped by where the raccoon was and his condition was the same. I loaded one of my 5.56 ARs and put a Hornady 73 grain ELD in the back of his head.
 
rantingredneck said:
Beware out there.

As I was walking in to my tree stand this morning I came upon a raccoon laying in the trail. I thought him dead at first but then his hind leg twitched a bit and I noticed he was breathing. I didn't see any evidence of trauma like from a gun shot or animal attack, so my first thought was illness, possibly advanced rabies.

I gave him a wide berth and went to my stand.

A few hours later I passed him again on the way out and noticed he was still breathing.

As the day wore on I realized I probably should put him down but I wanted to obviously do it from a distance so there would be no spray toward me.

After we recovered my nephew's afternoon doe we stopped by where the raccoon was and his condition was the same. I loaded one of my 5.56 ARs and put a Hornady 73 grain ELD in the back of his head.
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I actually had a similar situation the other night. Raccoon came out in front of my stand toward the end of my hunt. He was stumbling slowly as if it were drunk. At first, I paid it no mind. But as daylight fell and I started to leave, he walked out on the trail right in front of me. So, I put him down. I picked him up by the nape of his neck (wearing rubber glove) and his body temp felt sky high. I'm assuming he was just in an earlier stage of what you ran across. I keep a little 22 pistol with me when I hunt for these reasons. Stay safe.



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I hate having to dispatch sick or wounded animals. It's one of those things you stone-up and do it because it needs to be done, but still an unpleasant task.
 
Friday said:
I hate having to dispatch sick or wounded animals. It's one of those things you stone-up and do it because it needs to be done, but still an unpleasant task.
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Had to take a baseball bat to a fawn once. It was like a scene out of good fellas. Sad day.
 
Ok, so why not put the animal down and the piss on it?
You know, to keep animals away until the virus dies?
Seriously asking...
 
Spartan01 said:
Seriously?
I thought wild animals were scared of the smell of human pee?
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Mostly a myth perpetuated by the companies selling you stuff.

Pee smells like, well pee. Urea is mostly ammonia. When it is full of estrogen it can be attractive but it's not repellant no matter the source.

Animals don't sniff it and say "whatever did that went to college."
 
Might start carrying a small bottle of bleach in the truck. That would have been repellant and hastened the death of the virus.
 
Spartan01 said:
Seriously?
I thought wild animals were scared of the smell of human pee?
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If you want to attract a buck during the rut, find his scrape (where he paws the ground and pees in it to attract does) and pee right in the middle of it. Then set up about 50 yards away. He will come right to that scrape, mad as hell and pee back on top of it again.

Oddly enough (and not something I would ever do) but according to a couple big time trophy hunters I know , the best attractant is used tampons. They keep their wives used ones in ziplock bags and hang them from trees where their shooting lanes are.
 
Chdamn said:
If you want to attract a buck during the rut, find his scrape (where he paws the ground and pees in it to attract does) and pee right in the middle of it. Then set up about 50 yards away. He will come right to that scrape, mad as hell and pee back on top of it again.

Oddly enough (and not something I would ever do) but according to a couple big time trophy hunters I know , the best attractant is used tampons. They keep their wives used ones in ziplock bags and hang them from trees where their shooting lanes are.
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That must be that secret ingredient in Pig Oil.
 
I was once in full camo in a climbing stand during bow season. Had to pee something awful. I'd been in the stand about 4 hours already. I leaned over the side and started pissing. At that exact moment a spike came out of the thicket behind me. I paused pissing for a split second and he walked right over to the wet spot. It didn't seem to bother him and I still had to go so I continued and pissed all over him. He never spooked and just kept sniffing around for a few minutes and then wandered off.
 
I've had one walk up & sniff where I'd just pissed out of my stand. Hell, I've had one come up & sniff where I'd been spitting Copenhagen.
 
I’ve never wanted to shoot a deer bad enough to think about using a used tampon. I have had them sniff where I take a leak, and dip spit never seems to bother them. My grandpa would always take two packs of smokes and at least a six pack to his stand. He would get out the stand when one or the other was gone. The beer or smokes never stopped him from killing anything, unless he just missed the shot which happened frequently.
 
rantingredneck said:
I was once in full camo in a climbing stand during bow season. Had to pee something awful. I'd been in the stand about 4 hours already. I leaned over the side and started pissing. At that exact moment a spike came out of the thicket behind me. I paused pissing for a split second and he walked right over to the wet spot. It didn't seem to bother him and I still had to go so I continued and pissed all over him. He never spooked and just kept sniffing around for a few minutes and then wandered off.
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I've tried and tried, I can't think of anything to say that wouldn't cause me to get a time out.
 
rantingredneck said:
I was once in full camo in a climbing stand during bow season. Had to pee something awful. I'd been in the stand about 4 hours already. I leaned over the side and started pissing. At that exact moment a spike came out of the thicket behind me. I paused pissing for a split second and he walked right over to the wet spot. It didn't seem to bother him and I still had to go so I continued and pissed all over him. He never spooked and just kept sniffing around for a few minutes and then wandered off.
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Santa's gonna leave a turd in your stocking this year.
 
rantingredneck said:
I was once in full camo in a climbing stand during bow season. Had to pee something awful. I'd been in the stand about 4 hours already. I leaned over the side and started pissing. At that exact moment a spike came out of the thicket behind me. I paused pissing for a split second and he walked right over to the wet spot. It didn't seem to bother him and I still had to go so I continued and pissed all over him. He never spooked and just kept sniffing around for a few minutes and then wandered off.
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This could be a fetish video.
 
I've killed two rabid (assumed) raccoons at the farm. Both stumbling, one tried to "come at me" . Everything at my place gets rabies vac. Dogs, Horses, Donkeys.
 
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