Another type of varmint

[WYO300RUM]

Aka Ringtail cat, Coati, etc. I've seen them a few times in 35A down by Parker Canyon Lake and in the Canelo hills below the Huachuca Mountains.

Coatimundis​

Coatimundis | Arizona Highways

Picture a raccoon with a slimmer body and a longer tail and a snout. Add white fur around the eyes and nose, and you have the white-nosed coatimundi, the only species of this raccoon relative found in the United States. Rare in the Southwest, coatimundis are more common in Central and South America.

www.arizonahighways.com

I saw them in 29 .

 

[DDB TX]

Saw a little one near Fredericksburg, TX on our deer lease many years ago, 2 coyotes were eating it. They are mostly nocturnal, friend near Llano used to be a big coon hunter at night with dogs, and he'd tree them occasionally

 

[19elkhunter51]

To use a phrase from "Swamp People", "Shoot'em, Shoot'em".

 

[scpaul]

To use a phrase from "Swamp People", "Shoot'em, Shoot'em".

I bet that they would probably make a perlough, rue, bog, jambalaya or a gumbo out of them and it would be good. They eat everything else so why not?

 

[Mike Matteson]

I hope they can't cross the mighty Mississippi. We don't need any more pest in North Carolina. keep it quite our government might import some in for us.

We'll be glad to give you some Grizzley Bears from Montana. Everybody wants to protect them. So I feel everybody should have one of them in their backyard. Especially in Mexico-North (aka Calif)

 

[mongo4567]

There's a funny story about a member's wife on the deer lease: she swore she saw a monkey and the laughing was merciless. I saw it later and was almost on the edge of joining the monkey camp (large animal with weight, very dark brown, funny waddle but fast, very long tail). I only saw it for a flash when I came around a turn. All the alternatives like racoon and ringtail didn't work. Having seen Coati when I was young I realized what it was; just very dark phased coloring. I'm in central TX and it's the only one I've seen in the wild after lots of hours in the woods. All that I have seen before at zoos were colored about like a racoon.

 

[Mcranch]

Saw a little one near Fredericksburg, TX on our deer lease many years ago, 2 coyotes were eating it. They are mostly nocturnal, friend near Llano used to be a big coon hunter at night with dogs, and he'd tree them occasionally

I'm pretty sure there is a difference in the coatimundi and the ringtail cat from central Texas. We have enough issues with the pigs than to deal with these animals that can rip a dog up. Be glad we don't have them.

 

[floyd kittrell]

I've seen pictures but you're the first I've seen with experience with them. Kill them all, god will sort out the good from bad ones

I've heard that little saying before, a long time ago in a place far, far away.

 

[WYO300RUM]

I've heard that little saying before, a long time ago in a place far, far away.

Around 1963 to 1971 ?

 

[alnpar]

There are Bunches up in Ramsey Canyon.

I saw them in 29 .

 

[WYO300RUM]

There are Bunches up in Ramsey Canyon.

Whitetail canyon and area in the (spelled wrong I know) Chericowa mountains is where I saw them years ago.

 

[alnpar]

Whitetail canyon and area in the (spelled wrong I know) Chericowa mountains is where I saw them years ago.

This is the correct spelling "Chiricahua"

 

[WYO300RUM]

This is the correct spelling "Chiricahua"

Thanks. I never get that one correct. Have seen some nice coues bucks in there years ago. Hunted it 4 times.

 

[alnpar]

Yeah it

Thanks. I never get that one correct. Have seen son nice coues bucks in there years ago. Hunted it 4 times.

Just like the Army Base here. Fort Huachuca. (Wa Chew Ga)