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.
Yep! Mom & Dad have a house on the local lake. Houses ring the lake, with a lot of city folks there on the weekend. One weekend Dad had the livetrap on the tray under the birdfeeders. Sunday morning there was a pretty good sized coon in the trap. Since Dad didn't want to startle the neighbors with a .22 @ 6:30 a.m., he drowned the coon in a large drum of water. One of the neighbors had friends out from the city and they saw it from the 2nd story window. Around 10:00 a.m. a Conservation Officer rolls up and talks to Dad. Dad showed him how he had to wrap hardware cloth around the birdfeeder to protect it from the squirrels and 'coons, and showed him the dead coon. The CO just said "call next time and it'll save me a trip, or take it around the other side of the house before you give it swimming lessons". No ticket or written warning issued.
I think Dad and I caught 18 of those bandits that summer off that tray under the feeder.
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