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Town of Burlington boy bit by raccoon
BURLINGTON - A 5-year-old boy was bit by a raccoon Sunday at his home,
Reports said the boy’s stepfather had put live raccoon traps outside their house in the
7600 block of Lakeshore Drive, near their garbage cans.
Sunday morning, the boy apparently went outside before anyone else was awake to see two
raccoons that had been caught. The boy stuck his finger in the trap to pet one of the
raccoons, and was bit.
Raccoons infiltrate Little bandits may look cute, but they attack cats and dogs
The racket started about 4:30 a.m.
we saw was a mama coon and her four young ones just
laying into our cat,” Gibbons said. “They just put the collar on him. They were just
tearing him apart.”
By the time Gibbons chased the raccoons off, the cat, 15-year-old Smelly, was also gone.
“I couldn't tell if they dragged him off or if he took off,” Gibbons said.
Later in the morning, though, Gibbons found the family pet, under the low-hanging boughs of
a spruce tree down the street.
“He was disemboweled, with puncture marks all over his body,” Gibbons said. “He was very,
very dead.”
Smelly, who died about three weeks ago, isn't the only fatality, and the Gibbons family is
hardly the only one to have a run-in with what appear to be an increasing number of
raccoons.
“I've just been overrun with calls in the last month, and most of the coon calls are
probably about a couple of families that are causing a lot of problems,” said Wildlife Control. “I've caught a few, but they're
moving around a lot, so they're tough to get.”
Here is the problem about the only hope you've got for catching a marauding coon,
beyond doing the trapping yourself. Generally speaking, Animal Control won't
respond to wild-animal calls, and the Department of Fish, Wildlife
doesn't deal with raccoons.
Their agents have all they can handle with bears in the fall, but primarily raccoons
aren't
a game animal
“They're like squirrels and skunks,”
The city, which can't deal with them.
All of which raises a pretty good question - whose problem is a raccoon? Are they just part
of the price we pay for living in a city bounded by wild spaces? Or, because we are an
incorporated city that tackles its problems together, are they beasts to be tackled by
Animal Control?
“It's seems to me this is not a municipal problem,” “It's hard to argue that
it's a single person's problem, when at any given time it could be affecting everyone in the
neighborhood. Isn't that why we're part of the larger entity, so we can deal with problems?”
But raccoons, the city says, are not like other problems, like sewage, for instance. People,
to some extent, create their own interactions with raccoons by choosing to have pets.
Without a pet and pet food, you likely won't have much trouble with raccoons.
But everyone needs the sewer. So the city provides that service, and leaves you to fend for
yourself where the coons are concerned.
That's exactly what Animal Control told the Gibbonses when they called after Smelly's
death.
It's not that Animal Control is unsympathetic. But coons are part of the wild frontier
that
falls beyond the city's current mission.
“For us to be involved, it has to be a health or safety issue,” said Animal Control. “If it's a nuisance situation, we understand that
it's a problem, but there's really no way we can respond.”
So what city residents are faced with is an equation that produces an Animal Control
officer if your neighbor's dog kills your cat and a sympathetic shrug if a raccoon does
the same.
“That fact that it's a wild animal, that's the difference, “The dog is
under our jurisdiction, has to be under control, can't be vicious. The wild animal is,
well, wild.”
About a month ago, Julie was asleep in her home. Her brother and
sister-in-law were visiting, and everybody was down for the night.
Then the night came alive with screeching.
Armed with brooms, Hood and her relatives opened the back door to find three raccoons
pinning her cat to the ground.
“They had him by the tail and you could tell they were really hurting him,”
“It appeared they'd dragged him through the garden.”
“We got after them with the brooms, but it took a lot of screaming before we ran them off,”
she said. “They just kept staring at us and once they finally did run off, they came
climbing back on the fence and trying to get back in. I finally took the hose to them.”
Polani fared much better than Smelly. Although two veterinarians told Hood that her 5-
year-old cat would lose his tail, he didn't.
He's now pretty much recovered, and his tail even twitches a little bit. But he won't go
anywhere near the pond in the next-door neighbor's yard, which draws the
coons.
“I think that's where they caught him, so he won't have anything to do with that place,”
she said.
Hood understands the city's argument, but she worries that the raccoons could pose a danger
to neighborhood children, particularly at night.
“I do think something needs to be done, because they're very aggressive,” she said.
“Whether we have to act as neighbors or if the city can do something, it's a dangerous
situation.”
Gibbons said one of his neighbors had a raccoon come into his house through a dog door.
“And he wasn't just messing around,” Gibbons said. “The coon came after him, in his own
house.”
he's not exactly surprised to have
raccoon problems. But having the brazen coons in his house was a bit of a shock.
“This is something that went on for more than a year,” he recalled. “We had a cat that could
get into our basement through a cat door, but what happened is that raccoons started coming
into the house and getting into our cat food.”
The coons didn't seem that interested in the cat - only the cat's food - but they
were plenty aggressive when he tried to run them off.
“They'd hiss and growl at you,” he said.
And he finally got some raccoons, but not before
he modified the trap so the coons couldn't get the bait without triggering the door.
“They were just real smart about it, and it took me a long time to figure out how to catch
them,” he said.
raccoons
and skunks are just part of life. Even so, he understands why people like are
getting a little bloodthirsty.
I do think we've moved our houses into their habitat, but this
business of them killing cats in the neighborhood, I'm not sure we don't need to
do something about that,” he said.
Randy Rose can do something about that.
But it's going to cost you. Plus, there's no guarantee he can get the coons causing your
problem.
“They're pretty smart about not coming back to the same yards,” he said. “It's really best
if you can find where they live. Then you can get 'em.”
“To me, it seems like if there's no way to respond to this as a city, then people are going
to do it on their own,” he said. “I don't think that's going to be pretty. But I can see
somebody being pissed off enough about their cat being torn to shreds to consider it.”
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