Raccoon PEED IN MY TANK

[Dave_1972]

Congratulations on the most unique thread title this website will ever see. Enjoy your new pet racoon and good luck with starting over. Take it as an opportunity to try some new reefing ideas maybe.

 

[bobnicaragua]

So how did you catch the raccoon?

 

[Chikpeas]

Yeah the racoon looks pretty content and looking at the camera like "hey bro waz up?" instead of being stressed and crazed looking like most wild animals you would trap. Pretty sure thats a 'pet".

Hi! Thanks for your concern but it is illegal in my state to own wildlife like raccoons. This is not a pet. This animal has been eating the cat food in our garage and came into our house through the cat door.

I sat with it for a number of hours because we didn’t want it to escape out of the trap until my dad finally decided to get out of bed to help relocate it.

The animal wasn’t scared of me, but she was terrified of my dad and mom, and of our cats.

I worked with wildlife rehab, I know how to behave around wild animals, this is not a pet. I cried two days after this event watching my tank go to hell.

I find it a little offensive people would think this was done on purpose.

 

[Chikpeas]

So how did you catch the raccoon?

Put a live trap where it was hiding. The only food it seemed to want was dry food, so I took all the cat food and hid it. Put some cat food in the live trap and about 10 mins later she walked in.

She has been going into our garage looking for cat food for a goods month now, once we discovered that and began seeing injuring and puncture wounds on our cats- we moved the cat kibble into the basement downstairs.

We had 4 dogs in our house the night she decided to waddle in via the cat door.

Her calm behavior worried me a Lot. I figured she’s ever very used to people and does this often, or contracted a neurological disease that was beginning to take hold.

Raccoon urine can actually be extremely dangerous due to the level of diseases they carry/ some can even be fatal.

It was a very stressful week.

 

[Chikpeas]

Congratulations on the most unique thread title this website will ever see. Enjoy your new pet racoon and good luck with starting over. Take it as an opportunity to try some new reefing ideas maybe.

Nope, the raccoon was released about 30 miles from here!

Keeping a raccoon as a pet, or any wild animal, should be done by No one. I don’t care how cute they are.

Two, the diseases raccoons carry are so dangerous the local rehabilitation center will not take them.

And three- it’s illegal. I’ll hope she maybe lives in the woods happily but I’d rather just not think about it.

Yeah. This was not fun

 

[Chikpeas]

he needs to be punished …
( can I admit to a small chuckle over this)

She got relocated about 30 minutes away- she did have babies, however they should be old enough now where she’d be kicking them out soon anyways.

I’ll consider an easy meal removed from her punishment enough!

 

[Chikpeas]

"Got into the sub tank like it was taking a little bath, snacked on clams- hermit crabs, sponges, and anything exciting. Knocked my fuge light into the water which electrified the water and destroyed the light- and proceeded to urinate into the water."

I'm so sorry about the loss of your dif animals- but this I the most bizarre (and sorryyyy funny not funny) thing I have heard in a very long time!!!!!!!!!! Do you have any video of this event?

I have pictures of her roaming around but unfortunately I don’t have a video of the raccoon in the tank, I wouldn’t have been able to record that at the speed I’d be moving to get it out

 

[smitten with ocean life]

incredibly bizarre!!! so sorry! thatll be a crazy story to tell your grandchildren!!

 

[Chikpeas]

i know it’s no fun for you.
but this raccoon is looking at you guilt free like…

… totally. worth. it!



(please don’t kill it)

[… also, after that seafood buffet,
he looks slightly offended by the catfood]

Oh for sure. It was so happy to be in the nice warm basement with food and free seafood HAHA!

I was sitting there feeding it, pretty sure she wanted me to domesticate her so she could live happily ever after on my clothes pile.

 

[Chikpeas]

Um, yes by the looks.
Click bait, you got me. Not sorry I laughed, thank you instead.

No, it is illegal to own a raccoon as a pet in the state of Wisconsin.

There are many reasons wild animals will not act stressed in traps.

They are used to people, they have been caught before, or the environment they are in are not scary.

Highly plausible due to the amount of diseases raccoons carry: but neurological diseases can cause an animal to appear calmer and relaxed around humans as well. Which I did take into consideration.

I’m leaning more towards neurological because it did not want to eat anything that wasn’t cat kibble once caught and she had no fear but interest in me when I approached. Which is why I took high precautions while cleaning.

In the end she was relocated 30 miles away and we are going to double check with our insurance to see any of the repairs we will need to make to our house will be through insurance.

We don’t know what possessed the animal to go through a cat door with four dogs inside- but there was a sudden cold snap. It’s a scary story and makes people more aware of their animal doors.

 

[Tamberav]

I hope your cats are okay. The bite wounds in the cat scares me.

 

[Reefering1]

I want a pet racoon!!

 

[twentyleagues]

I want a pet racoon!!

No you dont.

Its like a cat on crack mixed with a monkey.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

is it ok thats i had to laugh? its just too crazy. the raccoon had to feel like it hit the jack pot!! so sorry about your tank though. that would be so frustrating!! you really should win a prize for the most bizarre thread!!!

 

[Bum]

is it ok thats i had to laugh? its just too crazy. the raccoon had to feel like it hit the jack pot!! so sorry about your tank though. that would be so frustrating!! you really should win a prize for the most bizarre thread!!!

I'm with you on that. This thread absolutely made my day.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

i mean really. how many people can say that?!

 

[WhiteKnight]

I had my 90 gallon running for maybe three months?

and a few days ago a raccoon entered through our cat door, went DOWN into the basement, and destroyed my tank.

Got into the sub tank like it was taking a little bath, snacked on clams- hermit crabs, sponges, and anything exciting. Knocked my fuge light into the water which electrified the water and destroyed the light- and proceeded to urinate into the water. Probably got a jolt and peed, but anyway.

Miraculously so many things survived. Makes me nervous what the ammonia levels were previously.

Had a family come down and pick up all the livestock and decided it was a sign from God to tear down that tank.

I am in the process of losing the Yasha goby though. Continuous prolapsed since the event. Very sad.

I took the opportunity to tear my nano down too, I’ll look to upgrade that to a larger nano….


Judging by the food bowl beside the cage. Did you choose to fold up shop to keep the coon

 

[PharmrJohn]

I had a racoon get into my garage and destroy an antique (late 1800s) calendar clock I was restoring. I was not a happy camper.

 

[twentyleagues]

Hi! Thanks for your concern but it is illegal in my state to own wildlife like raccoons. This is not a pet. This animal has been eating the cat food in our garage and came into our house through the cat door.

I sat with it for a number of hours because we didn’t want it to escape out of the trap until my dad finally decided to get out of bed to help relocate it.

The animal wasn’t scared of me, but she was terrified of my dad and mom, and of our cats.

I worked with wildlife rehab, I know how to behave around wild animals, this is not a pet. I cried two days after this event watching my tank go to hell.

I find it a little offensive people would think this was done on purpose.

Sorry you went through this. I was more so commenting on how chill it looked. I should have given more thought to your troubles and expressed my condolences before I commented on the raccoon.

I have a little background in the rehab/relocation of wild animals also. I have to say that is a very relaxed body language.

 

[Not an IT guy]

I mean that’s one way to get ammonia into the tank….wouldn’t recommend it. Sorry OP. I had to.