A homeowner in Washington state called 911 after she came home to find over 100 raccoons in her yard.
You're on the list! Expect to receive your first email very soon!She had been feeding these animals since the 1980s but told the Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputies that the situation had escalated six weeks ago when their population “exploded.”“Somehow the word got out in raccoon land, and they all showed up at her house expecting a meal,” he said. Along with the overwhelming numbers game, the woman told a deputy that the “normal raccoons are nice, but the new ones scare her.
“I’ve had several raccoons in the yard recently. My dogs have gotten in a scuffle several times with a raccoon. I’ve even had to take one of my dogs to the vet after tussling with a raccoon. And I’ve also noticed there’s been a lot more hit raccoons up on the main road here.” While the homeowner contacted the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to help her deal with the problem, she discovered the animals hadn’t broken any laws.“It’s pretty simple: Don’t feed wild animals,” McCarty stated. “When wild animals have a reliable food source, they’re going to keep coming back to it. And that’s what these raccoons did until the number of raccoons expecting a meal got out of hand.
“Don’t feed the wildlife,” said one person. “They survived hundreds of thousands of years without your help.”Read more »
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