BS: Raccoon Home Invasion

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 04:50 PM

I'm amazed. No rats in Alberta Province? A fence all around?

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: bobad
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

The story is here Ebbie.

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 09:45 PM

GNU -

Lattice...my grandmother used bedsprings.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:44 AM

Bedsprings... excellent idea! Much better than lattice. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: BaldEagle2
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 09:35 AM

Moving our curious cross-breed Brutus into the front yard to protect our fish from a marauding raccoon seems to have worked.

The five survivors from the first attack have regained their friskiness, and the water foliage is in full self-repair.

At about 1 a.m. this morning, there was a ferocious burst of activity outside our front door, as Brutus leapt into action against some unseen adversary.   Silence (and sleep for those of us indoors) returned in less than 30 seconds.

The frisky fivesome are still intact this morning.

And although I didn't actually see the what was trying to invade our front yard, I am pretty sure it was an attempted return visit by the raccoon.

I wonder how many times a raccoon needs to be chased off, for it to permanently remove a site from its visiting list.   That is, will Brutus now have to act as night guard for the rest of his natural? And when he finally goes to the Great Kennel In The Sky, will I have to get a new guard dog, or lose the fish?

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 09:03 PM

They're back! And they're much bigger! And they're really noisy!

This evening around 7 pm (it was dark here in Maine) we heard this very strange sound outside like an animal in distress and were immediately concerned about our kitty gang. Well, one was curled up on the bed but the other one was outside somewhere. So we collected the flashlights and ventured outside, carefully shutting the black cat in the bedroom.

Outside around the corner of the house were at least 3 large raccoons having a spat with each other, and then scuttled around the house as we approached, no cat in sight. Two of the raccoons climbed a nearby tree, ignoring us and continuing their spat with each other or maybe it was LOVE! Who knows?

We eventually called our cat in from the neighbor's yard and our whole gang is now locked in for the night.

Is this the time of years that raccoons settle accounts? Or is it mating season? Or were they just being raccoons?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 12:29 AM

Charley,

I'm glad to see your racoons are back from a selfish standpoint--I found this a very entertaining thread. Keep us posted on your racoon-proofing efforts!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: GUEST,Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 05:10 PM

We have a 80 lbs raccoon in our backyard late at night.
Should we trap it?

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: gnu
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 06:36 PM

Yes. The news media will pay you $ to photograph it. And the trap comany will pay you more for the advertisement.

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:22 PM

I'm not kidding. the damn think is easily 80 lbs. It is the most obscenely obese raccoon I have ever seen. My wife saw it last night and woke me up to tell of her encounter with the fatcoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM

Maybe a small pig has gotten loose and not a racoon at all?

Subject: RE: BS: Raccoon Home Invasion
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 12:05 PM

we have a grapevine and a small fishbarrel, so they love
our yard.
my wife thought there was a prowler on our upstairs porch and when she yelled a several heads with glowing eyes looked down at her. They werent that easily scared off either.

a few weeks later she said there were two copulating on the upstairs porch with a third raccoon watching.