Critter in the trunk?

Coons will find themselves in the dangdest spots!!! I've got one living in my chimney of a rental I have now. I'm inbetween tenants and don't want the new tennants to feel they are sharing the home with company so I am also contemplating how to fix the situation. I go on the roof and can shine a flashlight down the chimney and can often see it looking up at me 20 feet down. I've been sucessful at shooting 4, trapping 2, but have also been outwit by 2. I guess if your keeping score, I'm 6...Coons 2. They are creative, smart, and eventful things that will not go away easily. If you trap them, use a can of tuna or chicken. It may take you several days to catch one and you may go through a few cans before you lure one in. They will find ways to take the bait without being trapped. Nights are your best opportunities to shoot/trap as they are nocturnal. Trapping it preserves nature, shooting it gets to the point. Best of luck-

Matt

Mark,

I do not suggest you try to shoot the critter while you are driving. However, if you do kill it just think of how sporty you would look driving around in a genuine coon skin hat!

Good luck!

Jack

I had mice store cat food (and mouse poison) inside the hood and trunk braces, everytime I opened or closed them some came out and landed on the trunk floor or engine. I took them off and shook them out but there is still some stuck in there. Could be your problem too, took me awhile to figure out where it kept coming from!

Mark,

Maybe you have a hitchhiker. I think you have a Missouri mouse! <img src=images/icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> I stored the kar last winter in my shop on my farm in the Ozarks. <img src=images/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Alex

Some summers ago, I was bringing my 65 Shelby to a cruise night here in the Dallas, TX area. When I started the car in the garage, there was a lizard about 7-8" long that sat on the passenger side floor.

We looked at each other and I shut the engine off and tried to grab

the animal. However, it was to quick for me and it disappeared under

the dash. Well, being late I took off and after a couple of miles at the freeway it came out and again sat at the floor. Later at the show, I left the car to look at other cars and when I came back it

was sitting between the front seats with his tail towards me.

Quickly I was able to grab it and throw it out of the car. It looked shocked and ran under the car. I chased it away to prevent it from

catching a ride back home.

Well I guess it was relocated permanently.

/Bo

Need to house some really large snakes in you car. The will keep those pesky varmints away!

Larry

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Some summers ago, I was bringing my 65 Shelby to a cruise night here in the Dallas, TX area. When I started the car in the garage, there was a lizard about 7-8" long that sat on the passenger side floor.

We looked at each other and I shut the engine off and tried to grab

the animal. However, it was to quick for me and it disappeared under

the dash. Well, being late I took off and after a couple of miles at the freeway it came out and again sat at the floor. Later at the show, I left the car to look at other cars and when I came back it

was sitting between the front seats with his tail towards me.

Quickly I was able to grab it and throw it out of the car. It looked shocked and ran under the car. I chased it away to prevent it from

catching a ride back home.

Well I guess it was relocated permanently.

/Bo

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Bo,

I think I've seen that lizard. He probably was just trying to sell you Geico insurance. Good to know he's a Shelby fan. <img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Dave

Hi Dave,

Probably true if he had been green but no Geico for me.

Wonder how he got into the car. Must have been through

the cowl.

/Bo

And to think I only had to deal with wasps. Found nests inside rear brake drums, heater box and inside fold-down rear seat chrome trim among other places! Phil.

Cats sleeping on top of the car cover, skunks slinking (and stinking) past on all sides, racoons grooming themselves on top of the side yard car's canopy (pictures are available), possums and their young using the side yard as a freeway, squirrls burying nuts and seeds in the ground under the covered car, dogs using the wheels to - (if I need to explain that you need to get a life), lizards sunning on the hood and last but not least, a human to drive the car once in a while. That last part is all the cars asks, except to bathe the body once in a while.

Jim

All of the above is true, the car's idenity was changed to protect the innocent.