So I was poking a hole in a beaver dam today, and as I was digging, I see this white thing, looks like a plastic bag. I grab it and give it a pull......and it was a severely rotten raccoon that the beavers apparently had incorporated into the dam. The wadded up white stuff was its skin. It smelled horrendous of course, and I just gave up on digging out the dam. Too nasty for me.

Nice. I can smell it from here.

Maybe the beaver put it their to keep you from tearing up his work.

Break fast in a bag

The things you find at beaver dams could be it’s own book.

I wonder if someone caught the coon while trying to trap the beaver and just threw it in the water. When it floated to the dam, beavers did something with it...?


I’ve seen dead raccoons a number of times around beaver dams. I always figured it was the work of a previous beaver trapper that didn’t get them, although there’s no way to know for certain

Should’ve kept digging. May be a trap in there too.

I found a coon at a beaver dam a couple weeks ago, after an ice melt...I figured it got caught under the ice, and expired.

That looks salvageable

Usually it is the work of disease. Distemper is the biggie, and they become dehydrated, and head to water. On distemper outbreaks, I have found numbers of coon in an area, laying dead. They literly crap themselves to death!

Found a muskrat with its face eaten off at a beaver dam yesterday.

I found a burlap bag In a beaver dam. When I dragged It out and opened It up It was filled with some puppies.

How sad!

You guys need a better class of dams.

About all a 'coon is good for these days.