Racoons
Jane McGary via pbs (Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:50:02 PDT)
Mark is right to warn about raccoons and their parasites. They can also
contract several diseases that are dangerous to domestic dogs and cats,
including canine distemper and of course rabies. When I had to handle
dead ones in the country, I didn't have "full PPE" but I did cover up
and use long chemical-proof gloves, which I then discarded. Be sure your
pets are up on their vaccinations if you live where they may contact
raccoons. If they're like my big Malamutes, they will work on solving
the raccoon problem on their own, and get bitten before eventually
winning the battle. Incidentally, predatory dog + electric fence is a
good deer preventive. The deer can jump the fence, but the dogs mostly
will not. Until they discover it won't actually kill them!
This is probably going to get me in trouble, but I will mention that if
you have a pest animal in a live trap, the easiest way to kill it is to
submerge it, trap and all, in deep water.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
On 6/27/2020 1:01 PM, Mark Mazer via pbs wrote:
Ernie...
"I do know that but I'm not about to shoot them"
I get it. Then hire a professional instead of being above the law. The
survival rate for relocated raccoons is abysmally low and you are simply
making your problem
another person's burden. BTW... transporting a raccoon in your car is
insane. Some 70% of the adults and 90% of juveniles carry various
roundworms in their feces.
Daughter is a pathobiologist and they would don full PPE when handling
raccoons in UConns lab back in the day.
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