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Yes, Toronto has more raccoons:mad: per square kilometre than any other city in the world. Watch The Nature of Things on CBC at 8PM to-night. Wouldn't be surprised if Toronto is also the leader in pigeons, rats, geese, dogs, cats, etc.
 
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Brill

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If raccoon coats made a comeback they would solve the problem.



I found one in my compost bin the other day even though I had the lid bungied down tight. He couldn't get out, I had to give him help.
 
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Raccoons were originally imported into Japan as pets but once they reach a year old they attack their owners so these owners released the coons into the woods where they multiply like rabbits. Since the Japanese don't have a silly Mayor Miller they have adopted a "kill on sight" raccoon policy.
 
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Be sure to wear a mask when you clean up raccoon poop on your property, then burn the poop along with your clothes. Watch where your kids play.
 
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MissCroft

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Unfortunately the raccoon problem is our fault...it's a concomitant relationship. The more our population grows in Toronto, the more raccoons we're probably gonna get. The more garbage humans create the more the raccoon population grows. In cleaner cities or smaller towns, the population obviously tends to be much less.

So we get smarter and try to lock up our garbage and then the smarter they seem to get.... they're like a virus, much like humans.


I do think they're cute though.
 
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james t kirk

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I've never had a raccoon give me a hard time.

I've had lots of humans give me a hard time.

I get a bit of a kick out of racoons. I remember one time walking down a street outside of my favourite Chinatown restaurant. This mother racoon came scooting a across the street with her babies right after her. She stopped on the other side, counted her babies, then went back and found the straggler and escorted it across the road to the waiting brood, then off they went. Remarkable.
 
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james t kirk said:
I've never had a raccoon give me a hard time.

I've had lots of humans give me a hard time.

I get a bit of a kick out of racoons. I remember one time walking down a street outside of my favourite Chinatown restaurant. This mother racoon camed scooting a across the street with her babies right after her. She stopped on the other side, counted her babies, then went back and found the straggler and escorted it across the road to the waiting brood, then off they went. Remarkable.
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Not so adorable when they rip apart your roof and make your attic their new home.
Not allowed to kill'em, only trap and release a short distance away. Guess what? THEY RETURN.
 
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Rockslinger

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james t kirk said:
This mother racoon camed scooting a across the street with her babies right after her.
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Mother raccoons raise their young by themselves. No male raccoon involvement.

"They" put a tracking device on some raccoons and determined that their range is within a 3 city block area.
 
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AJstar said:
Not so adorable when they rip apart your roof and make your attic their new home.
Not allowed to kill'em, only trap and release a short distance away. Guess what? THEY RETURN.
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They are very destructive to property. In Japan they have a raccoon "kill on sight" policy.
 
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james t kirk

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AJstar said:
Not so adorable when they rip apart your roof and make your attic their new home.
Not allowed to kill'em, only trap and release a short distance away. Guess what? THEY RETURN.
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So make your roof such that they can't get in.
 
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Rockslinger said:
Yes, Toronto has more raccoons:mad: per square kilometre than any other city in the world. Watch The Nature of Things on CBC at 8PM to-night. Wouldn't be surprised if Toronto is also the leader in pigeons, rats, geese, dogs, cats, etc.
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The funny thing is that during my time living in Toronto I have yet to see a single raccoon, whereas I used to see plenty when I lived in Whitby/Oshawa many years ago (along with skunks).

As for pigeons, I'm not certain how large their population is in Toronto (I noticed that they tend to be concentrated in specific locations, such as certain subway stations, at the St. George campus of U of T, and around Bay street). However, when I was in Hamilton, close to their downtown core, I used to see flocks of them, many trying to nest along the balconies of the apartment buildings near the escarpment.
 
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Samurai Joey said:
The funny thing is that during my time living in Toronto I have yet to see a single raccoon, whereas I used to see plenty when I lived in Whitby/Oshawa many years ago (along with skunks).
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Most raccoons probably live in the many ravines that Toronto has. I back onto a ravine and see them all the time.
 
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