Raccoon Update

Elgin issues us SUPPOSEDLY raccoon proof cans BUT they don't work. Heard a racket outside one night/early morning on garbage day and discovered a Mamma Coon in the garbage bin - tried to chase it out to no avail. Wheeled it out to the curb for pickup and she was still in there. Got a laugh when the pickup man leaped back into his truck when he opened it. Couldn't get the animal control or forestry people to relocate it. Mamma did it on her own. No more problems now - my significant other puts the scooped cat litter into a paper bag and puts it on top of the garbage - Mamma coon seems to leave the can alone now.
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Ladies and Gents, boys and girls,

All these stories were wonderful. As I was reading each of them, the mental picture my mind was generating had me laughing 'til tears were running down my face!

First we have Angela's "raccoon raiders". Then there were Richard's "couch potato critters". John Mac chimed in with his furry friend-the racoon that suffers from "ADHD". Then there's mischievous Hal planting a 'coon for his trash collector to find. Is it any wonder that we finding them irresistibly charming. Their ingenuity and resourcfulness never ceases to captivate me.

And last but not least, Angela and her only recently discovered species, named
Homo Sapien Sapien Astro-Physicist. No wonder you have such a way with racoons, the similarities are astonishing!

I love to hear these stories, I know all of us have plenty.
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Wait a darn minnit! I didn't plant the darn thing - I gave her an eviction notice and got put down! I darn sure wan't going to call the county sheriff - he'da shot her. If animal control/forestry department won't solve my civillian type problem maybe somebody on the city payout WILL. As it worked out she considers me a slumlord and has moved on.
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Wait a darn minnit! I didn't plant the darn thing - I gave her an eviction notice and got put down! I darn sure wan't going to call the county sheriff - he'da shot her. If animal control/forestry department won't solve my civillian type problem maybe somebody on the city payout WILL. As it worked out she considers me a slumlord and has moved on.

Hal, I know I took a little literary license, sorry. :o( You slay me with your storying telling. :o)

Thanks Richard, I will check it out when the phone's juiced up. I enjoyed the discussion immensely.

K.C.
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Sadly, there is very little wildlife in my apartment. :(

Yet you slay me.

Sadly, there is very little wildlife in my apartment. :(

Around My house there's lots of wildlife, Of course It isn't visible near a road.

I did have a goldfish. I am not sure if that qualifies as wild.

My neighbour promised to feed him when I was back east last month. Oops. :p

Sent to us by a friend. To all my fellow critter lovers, with love.

I've been lurking and enjoying the raccon pics and the stories on this thread. :D

In answer to your question, KLC (I hope it's ok to talk about cats here a moment...since you asked!):

Also, I would like to ask a question. It seems most everybody here has a cat, as do I. Does anyone have a cat who insists on sleeping on top of them.

I've been lurking and enjoying the raccon pics and the stories on this thread. :D

In answer to your question, KLC (I hope it's ok to talk about cats here a moment...since you asked!):

Also, I would like to ask a question. It seems most everybody here has a cat, as do I. Does anyone have a cat who insists on sleeping on top of them.

Isis, our two-year-old resident long-haired kitty-monster, insists on sleeping on my pillow right above my head...as in stretched horizontially and literally wrapped around the top and sides of my head like some weird kind of breathing/purring Russian Fur Hat.

It isn't so bad during the winter, but she insists on it during the summer, also... :P