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We knew someone that unfortunately kept a raccoon in 
captivity for about a decade until it's death. The pen was 
large and made of hardware cloth secured to some metal 
verticals. On one occassion the coon decided to escape and 
tore a hole in the hardware cloth. Somehow they were able 
to recapture it (I suppose by now it was used to eating 
cat food, or whatever). Although we use it, this taught me 
that even hardware cloth is not invincible to coons. I 
would think if it were laid on top of something like hog 
paneling and secured this might work.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas


On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:21:34 -0500
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> On May 21, 2008, at 2:06 PM, paxamicus AT earthlink.net 
> wrote:
>
> > Mine was so smart he didn't stop coming until we hung 
> > the hung the
> > feed bins from tack hooks in the ceilings.
>
> This is a story about coon strength. I once built an 
> impregnable pen  
> for broody hens against the side of the root cellar 
> building. Old  
> metal roofing around the bottom nailed well to split 
> post oak posts,  
> brand new one-inch poultry mesh enclosing the top. I 
> fixed the door  
> with a double latch that required the opener to do two 
> things  
> simultaneously. He couldn't figure out how to work that 
> so he simply  
> got on top and ripped a hole through that spanking new 
> poultry mesh,  
> killed the hen and killed all the chicks that were 
> hatching and no  
> doubt whose peeps had drawn him in. I found three cold 
> chicks in the  
> morning that had apparently hatched after he left. I say 
> he because  
> the traps I set, knowing he would be back for the rest 
> of the hen,  
> caught him by those parts of a male which positively 
> define the sex. I  
> put him out of his considerable misery with the 
> forty-five.
>
> That tragedy is one of the reasons why I no longer use 
> poultry mesh in  
> a security condition. Use dog pen wire. It's strong and 
> it lasts.
>
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