Dying raccoon in my garbage can -- what to do? (1 Viewer)

[Ned]

No advice, but i did find an 8ft black snack coiled up in my trash can a few weeks ago. I'll never open the lid again without checking for snakes.

Do you have a snake detector?

Only acceptable outcome...

I caught on the local news the other night about some dude's house fire. He couldn't kill a spider, so thought it would make sense to use a spray paint can + lighter for a makeshift torch. Half of the house was burnt. Oh, and it was a rental.

At the very end the newscaster said "its assumed the spider did not survive the fire"

 

[Henry Ford]

Did you seriously just let it bake to death in a garbage can?

who cares? Theyre ####in vermin

They're really smart animals. There's no need to let the thing die like a Guantanamo detainee.

 

[MC Gas Money]

Did you seriously just let it bake to death in a garbage can?

who cares? Theyre ####in vermin

Raccoons are not vermin, they are pests but dont deserve to be tortured.

 

[MC Gas Money]

Did you seriously just let it bake to death in a garbage can?

who cares? Theyre ####in vermin

They're really smart animals. There's no need to let the thing die like a Guantanamo detainee.

Those detainees have it better than a lot of americans

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Neighbors had a racoon pet. Thing hung out a lot and played patty cake with my Akita. Had an unfortunate accident one night when Kenobi trapped it in a corner.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

Did you seriously just let it bake to death in a garbage can?

who cares? Theyre ####in vermin

They're really smart animals. There's no need to let the thing die like a Guantanamo detainee.

Those detainees have it better than a lot of americans

And most American racoons.

 

[mquinnjr]

BB Gun to the dome, problem solved.

 

[Hot Diggity Dog]

BB Gun to the dome, problem solved.

Might need a higher caliber. I doubt the old Red Ryder will take out a racoon even at close range.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Pile drive it's head with a 2x4. Drowning it will be ugly

 

[xulf]

Call animal control.

 

[bulldog_guy]

Went to take the garbage out tonight, dropped it in the can, as the heavy bag of trash was falling I noticed a furball below it. Knew instantly it must be a raccoon, they're getting into our trash all the time. I pulled out the trash just to see if I could figure out what happened, and it looks like he's still breathing lightly/slowly. No idea if he got stuck in there last night and was too small to tip the can over with weight and get himself out, so he just baked in there, or what. But if he's still breathing, I wonder if I should tip the can over and dump him out? Or maybe he's sick and this will be the start of one of those movies with the crazy new virus strain that infects half the free world?

Not sure what to do here, wife and I both feeling bad about it. Called animal control twice, nothing from them.

Thoughts?

Make a call to the rest of Guardians of the Galaxy and tell them a hero is down.

 

[Otis]

So you had your wife take care of it because you were too gutless to do the man's work?

No, I had to go to work.

 

[Otis]

So last night the mama raccoon is back with another baby raccoon (I've now deduced based on sizing that the dead one was another baby, similar age as this baby). They rummaged through those cans for what must have been hours.

Wife goes out this morning to grab something in the yard; says she hears noise coming from the garbage cans.

Another ####### raccoon stuck in there this morning.

Thankfully this one was alive and kicking and we caught him first thing in the morning. Went and tipped over the can, out he went, a little dazed and confused. This mother raccoon sucks, keeps abandoning her kids in the garbage.

I would try to come up with a better solution (used to use bunjee cords) if we weren't moving out of this house in like 3 weeks.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Otis, you're seen "Groundhog Day?". You get to relive Raccoon Day until you figure out how to show a raccoon some respect.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

BB Gun to the dome, problem solved.

Might need a higher caliber. I doubt the old Red Ryder will take out a racoon even at close range.

I'd go out & rent a bazooka.