------------ Do NOT feed Raccoons on your property ! ------- There are consequences !--------

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Do NOT feed Raccoons on your property !!!

I have had a Feral Female cat, that has been around for about 6-8 months

Recently she brought her 4-5 month old kid/kitten with her, to our yard, and they were hanging out in the safe space, I though I was providing.

About 2 weeks ago, I went to go feed the 3 yard cats, Mom, Dad, and the kitten.

The kitten never showed up to eat, which was very odd, and was not with the mother.

I walked around the yard, and checked areas I knew they cats hang/sleep, and to my utter shock

I found the kitten dead, ripped up, and missing body parts.

I checked my Wyze Cam’s and found out how it happened,

3pk, of raccoons at 1:45am attacked and consumed parts of the kitten,

Since then, I stopped leaving the food plates out in our yard for the cats, and others that pass through, But I had forgot to take the plate into the house last night, and now 6 raccoons showed up, 3 adults, and 3 kids… You will also see the Former mother cat, that lost her kitten by the raccoons, Run off, when the 6 arrived.

Do not feed Raccoons on your property,

especially if there are small pets that you may have…

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Cat Mom with Kitten, the kitten that is now deceased ( I am sooo angry about the raccoons killing the kitten)

And the 6 pk of raccoons that showed up last night

3 of which are the adults, that killed and ate the kitten leaving the lower 2/3rd of the kitten body behind, returning a few days later, after I had buried the kitten, for which the raccoons dug back up, and consumed further

Do NOT feed the Raccoons!

I am sooo angry at the raccoons!

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Great advise. I have a wooded area behind my neighbors houses. I walk my dog in the area and will feed wildlife old bread. I never see neighborhood cats in the wooded area, just deer, coyotes and squirrels.

Since wildlife is already in that wooded area, my hope is the old bread will keep them up there and out of the neighborhood.

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My strategy seems to be keeping wildlife out of my neighborhood because my Wyze cameras capture fewer of these older videos.

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It’s never a good idea to feed wild animals. They get dependent on humans and have hard time surviving on their own.

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You have a good idea with feeding them in the woods, and not around your home.

For me, I have been taking care of cats that show up in our yard for at least 15 years, during that entire time raccoons, possums, skunks, show up late at night, and feed off any crumbs left by the daytime feeding of the cats..

All these years, I had never experienced any issues with any of them, in fact there are times, when the cats sleep in the chairs, and skunks, raccoons, or such, are eating whatever is left on the plate…(crumbs)

This is why I was sooo shocked, the raccoons tore up the kitten…I have a picture, but its too graphic to post…I have a totally different view now of Raccoons and don’t want them around anymore…last night it was my mistake, accidently leaving the plate out, as since the kitten was killed by raccoons, I have been taking the plate back into the house after the cats eat about 5-7pm…

After my research on this, I never knew Raccoons would do such a thing

Anyone who has a small animal of any type, never leave it alone in your yard…

As there is high risk of the pet, becoming the raccoons next meal.

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Totally understand what you are saying.
if I didn’t feed the cats that show up in our yard over the last 15+ years, many would have not survived. Some actually didn’t and a few even died in my arms.

Those that I can help, I do, and have also paid to have them neutered or spayed…when I can afford to, have done it at least 4 times over the years, to help them, and also reduce to the risk of colonies forming…

Even if I dont feed the animals that show up or pass through our yard

The ground hog, eats my planted String bean plants, kale, and also sunflower plants, I start each year…So do the finches…I had to really build up a castle fortress, around my stringbean plants, kale, and sunflower plants I grow from seeds…IT seems the all like the leaves, when the plants are young..

So even if I don’t feed em, they eat

This year, I have success protecting my vegetables, with the 3 foot barriers, and overlaying fine hole nets -----Stringbean’s and kale, do not need bees to pollinate, so the plants are fully protected sides and top, from the ground hog, and finches.

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Feral cats are not wild animals, as for racoons, skunks, deer that is totally different story. They are supposed to find their food not hand fed. Is bad for them especially for young ones who haven’t learned how to look for their natural foods, when food is being hand delivered by humans.

People feed coyotes in cities and they bitch when the same coyotes go after their pets or when need to be put down for becoming nuance.

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For me, I have never had a problem with any of them for the last roughly 15+ years, of feeding the yard cats, ( while others have always shown up at night, skunks, possums ( tend to be timid), ground hogs ( also timid and show up more during the day/early evening), and for many years raccoons would show up.) ------ the are I live, there are no woods, its a highly populated, high density area, where homes are basically on top of each other, yards are a thing of the past in the area- Basically the area is just short, of being city like, another 10 years it will be)…So “wild animals” are not really living in the wild in the area I live, they are relying on humans…their garbage or their gardens, and such..

I do understand what you are saying in areas where the are actual “woods” near or next to a homeowners property…

In regard to coyotes, I would think they would go after ones pets,

whether people feed them or not?

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I only feed bluebirds. Our trash cans are in an enclosure with a heavy lid.

We used to leave deer corn out but the raccoons got to it first.

We haven’t seen a raccoon in a long time. A neighbor’s cat disappeared and its head was found the next day.

This is from last night

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I used to trap them and release them a few miles away in deep woods until I read that is 1) illegal unless I have a trapper’s license and 2) they will be in unfamiliar surroundings and will probably die.

Here is a photo of a trapped trash panda

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And one of a raccoon i popped with a Crosman .22 pellet CO2 gun

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I smeared peanut butter on the inside of a toilet paper roll and secured it with mechanic’s wire to the back of the cage. This one managed to strangle itself with the wire before I was able to relocate it.

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True, but when people feed them they encourage them to move closer and not be afraid.

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In my neck of the woods it’s illegal for squirrels and mice as well. They will eventually die of starvation in an unfamiliar environment. It is more humane to shoot them. For mice, they recommend squashing them.

It sucks to be a mouse :slight_smile:

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They are all in their storm drain fort across the street from my house and have been for the last 40 years that I have lived here. They just ignore the cats here, even MFP.
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Thankfully we don’t have any coyotes around here in lower Bergen County NJ.

I guess the advantage for the area not having deer, coyotes, and such, is due to the population density, and that there are no woods around the area, or in multiple surrounding towns.

I think it’s basically raccoons, possums, skunks, ground hogs, and cats, …oh, and in some areas in the surrounding towns, rats I am sure…

Northern Bergen county, NJ, I know there are deer and brown bears on occasion…still not sure about coyotes being anywhere in the county…

Our area, is close to the Hudson River, across from midtown NYC, where rat population probably exceeds the human population :joy:

And those rats probably eat like kings, feeding off humans garbage in NYC

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You had mentioned a neighbors cat disappeared, and the head was found the next day

The kitten, that was killed in our yard from the raccoons,

Same thing, I found the body, basically the lower 2/3 rds, and the kittens head was missing

along with part of its upper chest, and one of the front legs was gone…

Seem the raccoons like going for the head, I am guessing the brain…for nutritional aspects…

I still haven’t seen/found the kitten head…

Still tics me off the 3 raccoons did that to a 4-5 month old kitten…

If I ever directly encounter any of those coons, they are going to regret it.

Trash Panda you caught, to me, has a look in his eyes, he knows he is in trouble…

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I am in Toronto, Canada and we have abundance of coyotes that have attacked pets, children and adults. Also we have dear that they are landlocked and going crazy due to inbreeding. Racoons in the city are real problem to the point that people have to lock their garbage bins in the garage or inside the house if they don’t have a garage. Population density has nothing to do with it, it is the speed that cities grow and lock animals in. Humans have doomed animals and dragging themselves down the drain.

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Were I live in NJ, if one calls the county animal shelter, they will come out an lay a trap for the raccoons, but I don’t know if they do it for all reported coons, or just those that may seen sick or injured…Also don’t know what they do with the ones they do trap…if they are aided and released somewhere or put down.

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“”" I am in Toronto, Canada and we have abundance of coyotes that have attacked pets, children and adults. “”“”"

WOW attacking kids and adults?

I would think it’s time to thin out the herd /threat level? no?

How do they handle that in Canada?

“”“” Racoons in the city are real problem to the point that people have to lock their garbage bins in the garage or inside the house if they don’t have a garage. “”“”

WOW, … that sounds bad..

Here in NJ ( my area across from NYC) we have coons, but we don’t have it as bad as you do in Canada, as everyone places their garbage cans out with no lids, I never see any garbage cans overturned, …so i don’t know where the coons obtain all their “Gray Poupon” from…:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

“”“” Population density has nothing to do with it, it is the speed that cities grow and lock animals in. Humans have doomed animals and dragging themselves down the drain. “”“”"

I’m not sure of that…It we were to go back 150 years in time, where I live now, it would be all woods and there would have been all types of animals, including coyotes I would have to presume, along with deer, and other animals that are no longer around the area…

Speed back to 2026, and no of them are to be found in the area

I agree though, Humans are/have been Dooming the populations of many animal species

Sadly, Humans seem like a cancer, to think in the year 1900 world population was 1.6 Billion

In 2026 Over 8 Billion people

The more the human population grows,

the lower the population of ALL other species

And in multiple cases, extinction

I have to ask myself. Who are the real animals

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“Storm Drain Fort”

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

AND Multiple Storm Drain Forts

around the area to choose from!

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I never saw a Raccoon on Glenwood Ave. in Jersey City when I used to visit my grandmother in the 50’s and 60’s. Maybe Hudson County has a no Raccoon zone.
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Are you serious? there has to be raccons in JC? no?

Or are they called RATcoons in JC?

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Years ago JC, I always though was much nicer than it is today

Hudson County has raccoons, I am 1 town away from North Bergen, seen em around friend who lived in North Bergen growing up…They are not far from the landfills by the Medowlands area.

The Raccoon & Rat food pantry area ( dumps)