In indiana, nusiance animals like raccoons can be taken care of. A new law goes into effect starting this 2011 hunting/trapping season: 5) Removes the requirement for resident landowners or tenants to notify a conservation officer within 72 hours of taking a nuisance mammal listed in this rule (312 IAC 9-3-15). This eliminates the need for thousands of Hoosiers to call conservation officers every time they capture one of these species of nuisance wild animals and clarifies that the animal that is captured cannot be kept as a pet, sold, traded, bartered or gifted.
I don't know many people that do call, they just take care of what needs to be taken care of and go about their business.
WHAT? You mean I've been dispatching nuisance animals all these years without even knowing that there was a "requirement" involved?
I may not be able to sleep tonight.
I don't know of anyone who followed that law either.
