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We put out a nice fruit and vegetable garden every Summer and anxiously wait for all the vegetables and fruit to mature and ripen. Last year a raccoon beat us to nearly all our early poduction. I put out a live trap and baited it with what he seemed to favor. I was away on business when my wife told me that we caught him. He was mad as hell and so big he could barely turn around in the trap. She would go nowhere close so she called animal control to pick him up. They were most uncooperative and released him just down the street. We caught him again about two days later and I put a .22 into the medula oblongata with near instant terminal results. The last I saw of him, or any kin, was as he was sliding out of the trap into a dumpster at a nearby construction site. We enjoyed the garden all the more for the balance of the growing season.
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