I have on this youtube channel called “the bird perch” as background noise, and they have a nighttime feed channel thing.
Question is, do raccoons make noise? Answer, yes. The parent just bit/moved a youngster and it squealed. It sounded like what one would think, an alarm oinky type “eoww”. Then the parent growled at the youngsters, rushed them like a big cat, and moved them out. A bit of parenting.
Yes, we were ~shudder~ camping once and heard a loud squeeking/ growl? It was a long time ago. There was a young racoon bitching at us from a tree. I don’t know what he was on about, but he was unhappy and very noisy.
I didn’t realize you meant vocal noises. I was thinking of all the recurrent crash and clatter from racoons invading our trash cans and thinking “No they aren’t silent!”
Hmm racoon vocalizations? Yes I think I’ve heard them make squeaky noises, and also kind of hissy snarly sounds.
Unclear thanks, I’ll ask a mod. for title change. I havent heard them grunt or squeal before.
I was going to link a video, but can’t seem to. Apparently they purr too. It’s pretty cute.
Yes. They actually talk to each other in a chattering piggy sound, around my pond.
At froggy season, when tadpoles first hit land and are frogs, there’s a noise level that is very loud down at the pond.
I picked up a box of babies on the roadside where Mom had gotten squashed. They made plenty of noises. Mostly squeaks.
One night right after I moved to my house, I heard loud cries coming from outside. I want to say it was almost baby-sounding but I don’t remember. I went outside to look around and realized the noise was coming from my roof. I shined the flashlight up there and saw that there were three baby raccoons by the chimney. They were loud enough that my nextdoor neighbors also came outside. The mom had apparently put them up there for safekeeping. They eventually quieted down. An hour or so later, I heard them start up again. I looked out my front door and saw the mother climbing up the porch rail to the roof. She took them one by one to the backyard of the house across the street. So, yes, they can be very vocal.
That’s a much nicer story than mine. Years and years ago, I was awoken by unearthly screaming at the break of dawn. It sounded like a toddler was being tortured, so obviously I went out to investigate. There were two raccoons on the roof, separated by a meter or so. One of them was staring at me, motionless. The other was huddled in a clump, its fur matted with blood, its face half torn off. Evidently I had interrupted a life-and-death struggle.
After a few seconds, the uninjured (or less visibly injured, I guess) raccoon turned away from me and shrieked at the other, which flinched and limp-waddled over the roof crest and out of view.
Yeah. They vocalize.
Angry raccoons will growl and huff and sound pretty threatening. I know this because I caught a very large male in a trap, trying to catch whatever was getting into the chicken coop. It was not happy, and I was a little intimidated about releasing it.
My husband had a raccoon in residence in his barn.
Son-of-a-wrek said it obviously had taken steroids.
They said, I was never invited to hear, the fight between the over large rats and that coon would raise your blood pressure.
Seems the coon really really liked rat for dinner.
He finally caught her and her babies in traps. Lotsa noise that day.
Cat, the barn cat has eliminated both problems. For good and all.
That’s better than having one in your living room! Apparently inspired by tales of Santa Claus, a raccoon once came down the fireplace chimney in the middle of the night. We spent some time just looking at each other, me, sleepy and bewildered, the raccoon, alert and bewildered. At one point he climbed up on the mantel and tried to climb the wall, succeeding only in leaving sooty paw prints. I told the raccoon I had a better idea, and opened the front door, and guided him to it with the aid of a broom. I don’t think he ever made any sounds, and didn’t seem aggressive, just very surprised at how his night had turned out.
Raccoons can be pretty smart and very dexterous. I recounted in a different thread how raccoons had outsmarted the designers of “raccoon-proof” garbage carts. But this one apparently hadn’t fully grasped the concept of “gravity”.
I’ve had many many encounters with raccoons over the years, but haven’t heard them vocalize much. Once though, I was camping with my family at a State Park and I was taking out our garbage at night. The campsite dumpsters were overflowing. As I approached the dumpsters, I heard a chorus of growling coming out of the darkness, which was pretty chilling. Raccoons have basically zero fear of people, and I didn’t like my chances against a group of them pissed that I was interrupting their evening feast. I whipped the bag on top of the pile and backed myself on out of there.
I heard a story once about some campers who had left their cooler out at night (classic rookie camping mistake). Raccoons had gotten in their cooler, and carefully took the plastic wrapping off of individually-wrapped American cheese slices with their almost human hand-like little front paws before eating them.
Good timing! I was walking down our street yesterday and heard some chittering coming from a storm drain. Looked down, and there were two racoons in there. Looked like they were exploring, and crawled in the culvert across the street.
I’m surprised that a cat could eliminate a racoon problem. Those things can be mean and nasty. My in-laws had a racoon almost take out their 100lb shepherd!
They seem to grow bigger out west than here in the eastern part of the country. When we were driving outside Denver we saw one that appeared to be twice the size of the ringtails we have in these parts.
Careful with that. Sometimes raccoons eliminate the cat.
A really funny story, but: raccoons routinely go down holes for a choice baby bird / egg / rodent etc. meal. The surprising part must’ve been that this chimney hole didn’t have a bottom but was a portal into another realm.
I have had to have people out to clear raccoons out of my attic three times. One of the times I was awoken on Saturday morning by what sounded like a double tag team fight being held over my bedroom.
One evening I also had three raccoons on my deck fighting over a bowl of dry cat food I had put out for a local stray. From then on if I put food out I took it in before it got dark.
Oh, no. Barn Cat, does not fight raccoons. She just removed the rat buffet.
After Mr.Wrek got the dog food and chicken feed locked down, Cat went to work.
When word got out she had moved in any remaining meeces and coons magically didn’t need to come eat any more.
Plus she was a Hobo cat. Just walked up one day. Moved right in the barn office. Now she lives the life of Riley.
I don’t know about raccoons but I’ve always assumed Beckdawrek could make vocal noises.
You’d be surprised…