My neighbor just had the police come and shoot a raccoon outside in his driveway with a gun! They went in his garage with a catch pole and outside point blank shot it. Very awful as we saw it. We have cameras on our property and haven't seen raccoons anywhere this time of year in the snow, so how it got in his connected garage makes me think they are living in his house and being its slightly warm mabye it came out of hibernation? He has food pantry in his garage which is stupid as he has a mice problem. I don't know if the raccoon was sick or ate the mouse poison he has (or put down on purpose to kill it). If it was trying to escape why not open your garage so it runs out? I don't know the full details so I can't say. But my neighbors hate us for feeding cats and I see them trying to use this against us when the raccoons in warmer weather are passing through, even though they are everywhere where we live. Something doesn't seem right, and why isn't animal control or wildlife called? I just think it's pretty cruel, especially knowing this neighbor hates all animals, even birds pooping in his driveway triggers a fit from him trying to scare them off, nut job! Personally, outside is the animals homes and you can't get rid of wildlife, if there weren't so many houses and more natural areas these animals would have places to live, we've had WAY too many old, large trees removed in the area which raccoons used to live in now where are they supposed to go to live?
There's been other reports of cops catching and shooting raccoons when the town law has nothing about that. People in the area were outraged as it could of simply been a raccoon that was pregnant looking for a nesting area, or got trapped, and they shot a healthy animal for no reason.
