11 - Sunday, March 17, 1985 - North Shore News

DEEP COVE DEMONS

Raccoons get the boot :-------------------:

A LIVE raccoon trap set in the yard of a North from nests in trees, dumped
Vancouver home has caught five of the pesky her garbage cans, harassed
animals, but it hasn’t discouraged others from her small dog and destrayed
. * > the ripe plums from her fruit
pestering a Deep Cove family. tree.
—_————— years, and she wants the “Ive taken hockey sticks
| By BARRETT FISHER | municipality to do some- to them,’’ she says. ‘I've
thing about it. thrown potatoes at them,
The Deep Cove home- To date the raccoons have We've de-limbed the bran-
owner. who doesn’t wish her ripped up her lawn, ches that lead onto the roof,
name to be printed in fear of — dismantled tne shingles on and put metal around the
reprisal from raccoon lovers, her roof, stripped the screen bottom) of the phim tree.
says she has been bothered mesh from under her sun We're just so over-populated
by raccoens for about three deck, stolen) baby robins with them."*

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Wildlife Branch in Surrey
who referred her lo reapper
Guy Tarnbull,

“Tom not sure what he was
doing with them,."’ she says
of Turnbull, whe caught
four female and one seung
raccoon in a live trap in her
yard jn January and Febru-
ary, ‘and bo really don't
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during fur trapping season
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raccoons are oa common
problem on the North Shore,
especially in mote wooded
areas where there is cover
and shelter.

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