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Post by aztec70 on Aug 26, 2010 16:37:09 GMT -8
...have made my tomatoes part of their salad bar.   |
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Post by uwaztec on Aug 26, 2010 18:11:27 GMT -8
Yes...I have had a bit of a battle this summer with them. They are after my wife's gold fish in a small barrel/pond she loves. They pretty near emptied the darn thing twice going after the goldfish, but the 2 fish survived somehow. I have a "have a heart" trap, but have only caught one possum for relocation so far. I set multiple mouse traps around the fish pond every night....and the raccoons avoid the pond. The traps are not strong enough to hurt their feet, but it scares them when they set one off.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Aug 26, 2010 18:39:03 GMT -8
Thirty years ago one of my kids broke the kitchen window screen. I did not get around to replacing it, so on a hot summer's night I had the window open while I was washing dishes at the sink just flush with the bottom of the window.
I was scrubbing a pot with my eyes focused on scrubbing off some dark stains on the bottom, when I had one of those eerie feelings that I was being watched. I looked over my left shoulder towards the refrigerator and there was nobody there, so I quickly turned around towards my right and there was nobody there. Ghosts?
Then I looked through the kitchen window and there was a raccoon stretched out with his two hind feet on a brick planter I had on the ground about two feet below the window and his two front paws on the window sill, just like a curious child. He had his head sticking in the window and was watching in fascination everything I was doing.
I got him a couple of slices of bread and tossed them out the window and he went after them, and that was the last I saw of him.
Now, if my first wife was washing the dishes and that happened, she would have startled the whole neighborhood with a blood curdling scream. That was one of the reasons why I really had to get rid of that woman.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Aug 27, 2010 12:45:33 GMT -8
Yes...I have had a bit of a battle this summer with them. They are after my wife's gold fish in a small barrel/pond she loves. They pretty near emptied the darn thing twice going after the goldfish, but the 2 fish survived somehow. I have a "have a heart" trap, but have only caught one possum for relocation so far. I set multiple mouse traps around the fish pond every night....and the raccoons avoid the pond. The traps are not strong enough to hurt their feet, but it scares them when they set one off. I've only seen a raccoon here once, when it looked in the living room window. Possums we've had, including one that came in the kitchen regularly for about a year to chow down on cat food (possums I don't worry about because their body temp is too low to carry rabies and other bad diseases). The skunk that's snuck in a couple of times for the cat food is another matter altogether. =Bob |
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Post by Spud on Aug 27, 2010 20:04:52 GMT -8
Racoons = bad tempers.
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Post by monty on Aug 28, 2010 9:48:43 GMT -8
When mama had 'coons on the porch she chased 'em away with a broom
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Post by davdesid on Aug 28, 2010 13:02:10 GMT -8
We have a significant Raccoon population here in Alameda. They come out of the storm drains at night, dig up lawns for grubs, and are very bold. Not long ago, my German Shepherd alerted on one between my garage and the garage behind. With only about 12 inches between the two structures, the raccoon seemed to know the dog couldn't get in there, so it sat there while the dog was going nuts... figuratively thumbing it's nose at us.
A couple of stinging hits from my trusty Red Ryder BB gun sent it on its way. (I avoided its eyes, libs, so don't get excited).
P.S. We have tomatoes, too, and they are plentiful. Just seems like they are taking forever to ripen this year.
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 28, 2010 14:50:09 GMT -8
We have a significant Raccoon population here in Alameda. They come out of the storm drains at night, dig up lawns for grubs, and are very bold. Not long ago, my German Shepherd alerted on one between my garage and the garage behind. With only about 12 inches between the two structures, the raccoon seemed to know the dog couldn't get in there, so it sat there while the dog was going nuts... figuratively thumbing it's nose at us. A couple of stinging hits from my trusty Red Ryder BB gun sent it on its way. (I avoided its eyes, libs, so don't get excited). P.S. We have tomatoes, too, and they are plentiful. Just seems like they are taking forever to ripen this year. Obviously not a well trained dog. A properly trained dog would not have done that. A command from it's master should have silenced it. P.S. I am not excited. |
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Post by davdesid on Aug 28, 2010 15:35:45 GMT -8
We have a significant Raccoon population here in Alameda. They come out of the storm drains at night, dig up lawns for grubs, and are very bold. Not long ago, my German Shepherd alerted on one between my garage and the garage behind. With only about 12 inches between the two structures, the raccoon seemed to know the dog couldn't get in there, so it sat there while the dog was going nuts... figuratively thumbing it's nose at us. A couple of stinging hits from my trusty Red Ryder BB gun sent it on its way. (I avoided its eyes, libs, so don't get excited). P.S. We have tomatoes, too, and they are plentiful. Just seems like they are taking forever to ripen this year. Obviously not a well trained dog. A properly trained dog would not have done that. A command from it's master should have silenced it. P.S. I am not excited. She is well trained. I did not command her to 'ruhig'. I had encouraged her, and hoped her activity would have driven off the raccoon. The raccoon didn't give a $#!+, however. |
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 28, 2010 15:53:18 GMT -8
Obviously not a well trained dog. A properly trained dog would not have done that. A command from it's master should have silenced it. P.S. I am not excited. She is well trained. I did not command her to 'ruhig'. I had encouraged her, and hoped her activity would have driven off the raccoon. All right. I take my comment back. The raccoon didn't give a $#!+, however. |
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Post by davdesid on Aug 28, 2010 16:13:54 GMT -8
She is well trained. I did not command her to 'ruhig'. I had encouraged her, and hoped her activity would have driven off the raccoon. All right. I take my comment back. The raccoon didn't give a $#!+, however. Thanks. If I might be permitted to quote an esteemed poster on this site.... It is pleasant to agree with you now and again.  |
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Post by monty on Aug 28, 2010 21:54:41 GMT -8
I grew up near pasadena, and I woke up to animal screaming and ran down the stairs and saw my fairly old cat ripping the throat out of a racoon, I don't know how she got in that position (though she was certainly a scrapper, she was left out when the weather was nice and often came back with some lumps), but that flippin cat was ripping gore and blood and flesh out of that poor racoon. Must have jumped her, bit her throat and then gone to town, but there was blood and guts everywhere. It was super cool
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Post by aztec70 on Aug 28, 2010 22:18:09 GMT -8
I grew up near pasadena, and I woke up to animal screaming and ran down the stairs and saw my fairly old cat ripping the throat out of a racoon, I don't know how she got in that position (though she was certainly a scrapper, she was left out when the weather was nice and often came back with some lumps), but that flippin cat was ripping gore and blood and flesh out of that poor racoon. Must have jumped her, bit her throat and then gone to town, but there was blood and guts everywhere. It was super cool Except the cleanup. eh? |
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Post by davdesid on Sept 3, 2010 13:02:07 GMT -8
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