No kidding:
They appear cute and cuddly, but the Department of Natural Resources says the raccoon is turning into a household problem in urban areas around the country and here locally.
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That's because it's breeding season. Siri says female raccoons tear into attics to have their young, looking for just about any place to call home — like attics, chimneys and many other dark spaces.
I have a flat piece of roof at the back of my house. It mostly covers a porch that the last owner converted into a sunroom, but part of it goes over the downstairs bathroom just off the kitchen. That bathroom has a utility closet, the floor of which is over the basement. One of those rotten vermin has decided it likes to chew on my roof, and he picked the one spot where the water could leak into that closet and from there into the basement. I've tried reasoning with the fellow, but I fear stronger measures may be necessary. It occurs to me that I probably would not have fared well alongside the pioneers who had to cope with wolves, mountain lions and grizzly bears along their commuting path.
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ROFLMAO...reasoning...now there's something I have NOT tried (yet)...thanks for the idea, Leo.
We have a 2nd floor 1/2 bath (no tub) and the missus called me up there one night, because she heard noises on our roof (the window there overlooks the addition).
Imagine MY "surprise" when I shined a flashlight out onto the roof ONLY to have a set of eyes glowing BACK at me, not more than a foot away.
(It was a raccoon, and he MUST have seen something he liked prior to "my arrival"...lol)
Thankfully, our roof shingles were (and are) not to his particular "taste".
He looked a bit "down", as he wandered off the roof into the night.
This area will do that to 'ya, though.
Poor little guy.
Ughh... Racoons. Hate 'em. They're arrogant little critters, and they have no fear of us at all. Even exterminators don't want to deal with them.
They're tough little bastards too. Bobby you'll like this one, the last one I had required the entire clip from my .380! He was sick and had been on the roof for about a half a day when my wife called me and said he had then wandered down into the yard and our dogs were going ape-sh&t so my oldest son had to handle that one..
Those of you unfamiliar with racoons, they are nocturnal, so if they are out in the daytime, stay far far away, they are rabid or sick and have no sense of humor.
Tim:
And to think that up at a candle shop in the POCONOS, they have a few in captivity you can actially FEED...
I used to look forward to that...never got bit.
Thanks for the "warning"!
(I guess those 12 ga rifled slugs would be "overkill", right?)
Back to the 9mm.
That's fine...I'm STILL learning in the Midwest.
(caution - work in progress)
;)