I was camping last weekend at a state campground.
At night, our camp was raided by a gang of eight BIG raccoons.
They came back three times. The first two times I chased them off with a flashlight and yelling, but the third time I had to get out of my tent and chase them with a big stick.
They tossed around everything that wasn't nailed down and they dragged my cooler into the forest. Oh man, did they ever get frustrated by my igloo cooler that refused to open for them.
Ya ya, I know I coulda shoulda put the cooler in the car, but the car was full and I would have had to re-arrange things.
After they left my campsite, these masked marauders went from camp to camp causing trouble just like a gang of teenage thugs on Saturday night. I would here the banging and clanking of the racoons, then the campers yelling at them. And it went on all night as these bandits terrorized the campgrounds.
Now, I like racoons. We used to have them as pets. They are fun and cute, but they are troublesome when they want to be and too many racoons is BIG trouble.
So I was wondering - do public campgrounds control small mammals like racoons, oppossum, skunks, etc? Should they? At what point do raccoons become so obnoxious that parks should start to control them through trapping, etc?
At night, our camp was raided by a gang of eight BIG raccoons.
They came back three times. The first two times I chased them off with a flashlight and yelling, but the third time I had to get out of my tent and chase them with a big stick.
They tossed around everything that wasn't nailed down and they dragged my cooler into the forest. Oh man, did they ever get frustrated by my igloo cooler that refused to open for them.
Ya ya, I know I coulda shoulda put the cooler in the car, but the car was full and I would have had to re-arrange things.
After they left my campsite, these masked marauders went from camp to camp causing trouble just like a gang of teenage thugs on Saturday night. I would here the banging and clanking of the racoons, then the campers yelling at them. And it went on all night as these bandits terrorized the campgrounds.
Now, I like racoons. We used to have them as pets. They are fun and cute, but they are troublesome when they want to be and too many racoons is BIG trouble.
So I was wondering - do public campgrounds control small mammals like racoons, oppossum, skunks, etc? Should they? At what point do raccoons become so obnoxious that parks should start to control them through trapping, etc?
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