# Stanky Raccoon- Request Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220 "2018-06-16T20:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/81 "2018-06-19T17:22:06Z")
> [@LordHarry](#): > > There are a shit ton of gophers here. They are native. You are probably thinking of Badgers. Woodchucks. You’ve got woodchucks - aka ground hog, aka whistlepig, aka ground squirrel, aka marmot (and I’m just getting started); possibly the only creature with more names than Satan himself. They are much bigger than gophers. I doubt you would even have noticed a bitty little gopher. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/82 "2018-06-19T17:26:39Z")
as I have posted previously, I had a dead raccoon right on the property line of my house and the house next door. It was however right by my driveway and was freaking huge. It was on the strip between the sidewalk and the street, which when I called animal control is the responsibility of the city to remove. if it had been in the actual yard it would have cost me $150.00 to remove. I was quite worried some roving dog would drag it onto my drive way and leave it which would have been quite nasty. Fortunately, they came and got it pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![LordHarry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@LordHarry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordHarry)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/83 "2018-06-19T17:27:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Are you in the city limits? > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Your link doesn’t work. I got a error page. I wholeheartedly support you. > [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > I’m a little surprised the local scavengers have not been to town on it yet. I promise you, out here in the hinterlands, two nights max and the coyotes would have devoured it. We have coyotes, i saw one on the highway yesterday. I guess this raccoon is forever alone. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/84 "2018-06-19T17:31:33Z")
Yep. I see your woodchuck and give you [the gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher). They only get to about 2 pounds at the biggest. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/85 "2018-06-19T17:34:09Z")
The link doesn’t work or I would vote. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/86 "2018-06-19T18:51:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I don’t know what you are calling gophers, but there aren’t any actual gophers in New York State. > > …Actual gophers are the size of a large mouse or small rat. I dunno, man. There were a slew of gophers out on Long Island last weekend when the US Open was played. 😉 And [here is photographic evidence](http://www.everythingaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/caddyshack-murray-gopher_l1.jpg) that a gopher is larger than you suggest. (What? Do you get your natural history from more reliable sources than Caddyshack? ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/87 "2018-06-19T19:10:15Z")
> [@LordHarry](#): > > This is the animal known locally as gopher or groundhog interchangeably.ymmv. > [Groundhog - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog?wprov=sfla1) Local customs maybe, but from your cite… > [@](#): > > The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck… also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, land beaver, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleur. ---
**Author:** ![LordHarry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@LordHarry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordHarry)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/88 "2018-06-20T01:49:21Z")
Right, so we have established gophers and woodchucks are different. Good job. Meanwhile, back at the ranch… The smell has lessened. The raccoon has opened. It is still raccoon-shaped, only with a crack down the side. Thankfully, the smell has dispersed at least to the point where it no longer smells in my house. Meanwhile, the link to vote it as a ‘problem’ is still here: [https://seeclickfix.com/rensselaer-county](https://seeclickfix.com/rensselaer-county) . Local response crews tend to focus on issues voted as most problematic. Please up vote. This thing is also right at a local schoolbus stop, although that is only an issue for 2 more days. ---
**Author:** ![LordHarry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@LordHarry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordHarry)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/89 "2018-06-27T01:57:30Z")
Raccoon status: formless mass of hair, bone, and innards, mostly hidden by grass overgrowth from median. No longer smells in my house, which what I cared about primarily. Grass folks will come in the next week or two. Raccoon mash surprise! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/90 "2018-06-27T02:40:37Z")
I am glad to hear this. I was wondering how it came out. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/91 "2018-06-27T05:19:37Z")
The saga continues! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220/92 "2018-06-30T03:22:16Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > DOT? Does that mean you’re in Texas? If so, call your county extension agency. “DOT” probably means Department of Transportation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanky-raccoon-request-advice/816220.md?page=4)