Raccoons escape from an Isle of Wight zoo

[Cootmeurer]

I rather like raccoons

If you’ll pay shipping I will send ou as many as you want.

 

[timbrayford]

I'd imagine the owner would sue you in a civil case rather than the legality being the issue.

Absolutely correct, criminal damage, theft if you keep the body, plus civil compensation claim too.

 

[timbrayford]

I think it would depend upon them being clearly identifiable as "owned" animals, and the owner not having given up all attempts to recover them.

Wild raccoons don't exist here

 

[shakey jake]

I think it would depend upon them being clearly identifiable as "owned" animals, and the owner not having given up all attempts to recover them.

If the owner still has traps out, i think shooting it would be a silly idea to shoot it.
Id also ignore what an feo said

 

[VSS]

Wild raccoons don't exist here

I know.
But there's a big difference between an escaped animal that is clearly identified as such (eg, tag, microchip, etc) and which the owner is actively trying to recapture, and an escaped animal that has gone "feral" and which attempts to recapture have been abandoned.

 

[timbrayford]

I know.
But there's a big difference between an escaped animal that is clearly identified as such (eg, tag, microchip, etc) and which the owner is actively trying to recapture, and an escaped animal that has gone "feral" and which attempts to recapture have been abandoned.

The raccoon hasn't been abandoned

 

[VSS]

The raccoon hasn't been abandoned

So it would be inappropriate to shoot it.

 

[waterford103]

Finders keepers pet

 

[timbrayford]

Finders keepers p

So it would be inappropriate to shoot it.

Fourth raccoon now recaptured

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Don't they just call them coons in the states.