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anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
LOL!!! Great find Chris! + 1 :) though I'm a little worried about whether they've given their consent :) |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Bad bad bad event that involves torturing raccoons. Please go to the website and speak out. https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=5415&utm_campaign=0414%20URGENT%20Speak%20Out%20Against%20Raccoon%20Torture%20Event%20Post&utm_source=PETA%20Facebook&utm_medium=Promo "This Saturday, April 12, Leslie County, Kentucky, is reportedly holding 'Coon on a Log' races! These sadistic events (apparently sponsored by the sheriff's department this year) involve setting frantic dogs loose upon caged raccoons who have been hauled across bodies of water and perched on tiny rafts. Imagine the terror that these wild animals experience as they are snatched from their families, held captive, and then forced to endure this hellish ordeal repeatedly. A spectator at last year's event says that the dogs are allowed to 'bite at' the raccoons, who are sometimes 'knocked into the water' and 'pulled back up to go another round.' The spectator said that one raccoon was even 'bleeding and near death.'" ~Sue~ |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
There is a name for people like that, but I dare not use it here......... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
There is a name for people like that, but I dare not use it here......... I can.......... Motherf===ers. Work for you? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
There is a name for people like that, but I dare not use it here......... That's half of it....... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Hello and Greetings to everyone in our SETI@home community. I hope you are feeling well today. enjoy your day :) Best Wishes Byron |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
OK, I'll regress then. My favorite movie? You should have known. You MUST have known. I never was the terrible torrent that tarnished my wings. Because deep in my heart are my favorite things................. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjobdArtiA] I am a child at heart...[/url] And once in a while I forget that.......sorry. I KNOW I have posted this one before, but, as the others, it bears repeating. Every one of the crew on the 40th anniversary. I do sometimes find it impossibly difficult to reckognize that it has been that long. Simply impossible, is it not? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Bad bad bad event that involves torturing raccoons. :( Have always supported PETA and always will. When you think of how much entertainment is available to us in our modern "civilised" societies... that there are people who derive pleasure in their free time from activities such as these is just beyond belief. Brings out my dark side I must say - the one that says let the spectators and the organisers become the target. Not happy :( |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindseyrobertson/secret-agent-raccoons/ I strongly disapprove of whatever is going on in #16. If it's really happening, it's animal abuse, imho. But the rest are cute and/or funny. Be patient. Lots of GIFs. Slow to load. ~Sue~ |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindseyrobertson/secret-agent-raccoons/ Superb! :) APART from #16 I agree! All I can say about that is my daughter had a teddy raccoon which looked a lot like the one in that clip. I hope that's not wishful thinking on my part :( |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off. Life with raccoons is so much fun!!! I simply cannot understand why so many people dislike them. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off. I don't understand it either Angela :( |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off. Yes, they are so much nicer than possums........ Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Raccoons are officially a pest in the USA because they scavenge through peoples trash cans and nest in attics and crawl spaces, chewing through cables. It is the same in the UK with foxes, a fully grown one in good health is a magnificent animal but they are officially classed as vermin, especially by farmers because they kill chickens etc. I'm afraid that is not likely to change, here or there. I hear more about Bears on the TV News raiding trash cans in California than Raccoons, maybe that is California. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Raccoons are officially a pest in the USA because they scavenge through peoples trash cans and nest in attics and crawl spaces, chewing through cables. It is the same in the UK with foxes, a fully grown one in good health is a magnificent animal but they are officially classed as vermin, especially by farmers because they kill chickens etc. I'm afraid that is not likely to change, here or there. Yeah, we don't have bears in Illinois (unless they escape from the zoo). Raccoons, skunks, and lately coyotes are a problem. And the occasional cougar, believe it or not. Skunks are getting really obnoxious (and noxious!). I don't know what predator we've legislated out of their lives, but we need to put it back. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
One man's pet (or flower) is another man's pest (or weed). It all depends on your point of view. I love to watch the raccoons playing in my back yard. I deeply, deeply hated the raccoon that briefly moved into my attic a few years back. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Well... how I see it is this. Every one of the creatures we class as "vermin" do have a legitimate and vital part to play in the big ecological picture. We're the ones who have divorced ourselves from that. They go through trash or rubbish because we put it there. We've encroached on their natural habitats to the point where our homes are likely to become their homes by the simple fact that we're on each other's turf... and exploiting opportunities for shelter and heat (what they are doing) is what we're doing all the time, only much more destructively. Perhaps we should be reducing our waste, and building homes that allow us to live alongside, under, and above one another in more harmonious, less destructive ways, I don't know. I still, daily, see pigeons in London, with feet burned and mangled or missing from making the mistake of perching on a surface coated with creosote. :( Yet they're no more vermin than I am... they are simply, what we're making them... and making them out to be. I welcome all creatures, because they make me smile and/or because they're fascinating. :) |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Raccoons are officially a pest in the USA because they scavenge through peoples trash cans and nest in attics and crawl spaces, chewing through cables. It is the same in the UK with foxes, a fully grown one in good health is a magnificent animal but they are officially classed as vermin, especially by farmers because they kill chickens etc. I'm afraid that is not likely to change, here or there. Try Wolves, they go after Coyotes, Elk, Deer, etc and are good for plant life too... The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Raccoons are officially a pest in the USA because they scavenge through peoples trash cans and nest in attics and crawl spaces, chewing through cables. It is the same in the UK with foxes, a fully grown one in good health is a magnificent animal but they are officially classed as vermin, especially by farmers because they kill chickens etc. I'm afraid that is not likely to change, here or there. Yes, they were, and are (where they still exist in the wild) a really rather important top level consumer. |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Marcel dropped by the backyard for a visit last night. We don't see him too often now that he is all grown up, but we always enjoy seeing him when he does decide to come "home" for a little visit (and a snack). After Marcel polished off Spawnie's kibble, he looked around for his grapes. I was out of grapes... bad Raccoon Mother that I am. I was, however, baking sugar cookies at the time and Marcel found one of these to be an acceptable dessert substitute. He sat around on the back porch for another 40 minutes or so, just grooming himself and being bored and hoping that I would come back outside with another cookie for him. I figured one cookie was more than enough for an already pudgy little raccoon boy. When he finally figured out that he was not going to get another cookie, he ambled off. They are so much nicer than people. ~Sue~ |
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