So the neighbors are very nice, I have been here 11 years and they have been there longer than me. Very quiet, keep to themselves, never more than a hello. So I don't really want to ruffle the feathers here.
But they are animal crazy to the point where they are stupid. They leave peanuts out for the magpies, cat and dog food for all of the neighbors animals to come over. To the point where their next door neighbors dog is obeese because he is always going over there for extra food. They feed the pigeons, the doves, the quail, whatever they can feed they feed. The only bother is the dumb magpies that fly the peanut shells all over and make a mess, but I can live with that as well.
So today she mentions that three raccoons just showed up and have been eating the extra cat food she leaves out. I am not really excited about raccoons in the neighbhood. So my first comment was that if they came back I would leave a trap out for them and we can hand them over to the animal control. Well the idea that any animal would get hurt put her blood pressure through the roof. She is not going to allow me to trap, hurt or let anyone else hurt a raccoon.
I was thinking that I could talk her into me trapping the animal and I would take it for a drive up the canyons and let it free. But I just read that it is illigal to hold or transport a raccoon without a permit.
What options to I have? Lure them into my yard to trap them and turn them over to animal control myself?
The other small problem is that she works for the SLC PD. She does crime investigation. My guess is that she would bring the legal issues up and want to see them enforced if I did anything shady.
But they are animal crazy to the point where they are stupid. They leave peanuts out for the magpies, cat and dog food for all of the neighbors animals to come over. To the point where their next door neighbors dog is obeese because he is always going over there for extra food. They feed the pigeons, the doves, the quail, whatever they can feed they feed. The only bother is the dumb magpies that fly the peanut shells all over and make a mess, but I can live with that as well.
So today she mentions that three raccoons just showed up and have been eating the extra cat food she leaves out. I am not really excited about raccoons in the neighbhood. So my first comment was that if they came back I would leave a trap out for them and we can hand them over to the animal control. Well the idea that any animal would get hurt put her blood pressure through the roof. She is not going to allow me to trap, hurt or let anyone else hurt a raccoon.
I was thinking that I could talk her into me trapping the animal and I would take it for a drive up the canyons and let it free. But I just read that it is illigal to hold or transport a raccoon without a permit.
What options to I have? Lure them into my yard to trap them and turn them over to animal control myself?
The other small problem is that she works for the SLC PD. She does crime investigation. My guess is that she would bring the legal issues up and want to see them enforced if I did anything shady.
