Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe

Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

Previous · 1 . . . 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 . . . 63 · Next

AuthorMessage
Profile zoom3+1=4
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 30 Nov 03
Posts: 65709
Credit: 55,293,173
RAC: 49
United States
Message 1651683 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 15:35:03 UTC - in response to Message 1651567.  

That moma cat was a smart cat. She was a rescue sort of. She was pregnant and went people shopping. We did not select her. She selected us. How that works. I do not know. We had no say in her decision making. Even the dog had to move on over. She just came over and moved in and stayed.
Has anyone have that happen?

Not here, When I went to get a cat from the Apple Valley Animal Shelter, all were facing Me, except for Grace, I picked Her and She has been My devoted friend ever since, there were two other Black cats there, if I'd had the income, I would have taken all 3 home with Me.
The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
ID: 1651683 · Report as offensive
Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 16 Oct 07
Posts: 13130
Credit: 39,854,104
RAC: 31
United States
Message 1651686 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 15:47:12 UTC - in response to Message 1651660.  

A San Francisco carpenter performed a wonderful act of kindness by freeing a trapped raccoon — and was fired as a result.


I'm glad he did that, even though it came with tremendous consequences. I am actually sorry to hear that he is seeking legal recourse to being fired. I don't think he has a case and I think that such actions undercut the nobility of what he did.
ID: 1651686 · Report as offensive
Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 16 Oct 07
Posts: 13130
Credit: 39,854,104
RAC: 31
United States
Message 1651687 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 15:48:29 UTC

As an aside, this created a lively discussion in the office as to exactly how many cats you had to own before you officially became a Crazy Cat Lady.


I have heard "four" or more, which we had for a couple of years.

I have also heard "double digits".
ID: 1651687 · Report as offensive
Profile zoom3+1=4
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 30 Nov 03
Posts: 65709
Credit: 55,293,173
RAC: 49
United States
Message 1651720 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 17:36:05 UTC - in response to Message 1651687.  

As an aside, this created a lively discussion in the office as to exactly how many cats you had to own before you officially became a Crazy Cat Lady.


I have heard "four" or more, which we had for a couple of years.

I have also heard "double digits".


So maybe that makes one a ccarl? ;)
The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's
ID: 1651720 · Report as offensive
Profile Donald L. Johnson
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 5 Aug 02
Posts: 8240
Credit: 14,654,533
RAC: 20
United States
Message 1651722 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 17:37:45 UTC - in response to Message 1651567.  

That moma cat was a smart cat. She was a rescue sort of. She was pregnant and went people shopping. We did not select her. She selected us. How that works. I do not know. We had no say in her decision making. Even the dog had to move on over. She just came over and moved in and stayed.
Has anyone have that happen?

Our dogs were always outside/yard dogs. Most got along well with most of the neighborhood cats. The last year of my last dog's life, she lived in the garage, with the back door open to the yard. At least two of the neighborhood cats would come into the garage and eat out of her bowl, but she never made a fuss about it. When she died at 17, I just moved the food and water dishes out to the patio.

I now have 5 cats that live in my yard - 2 3-yo females from the same litter, an older female tiger/tabby, and the two surviving kittens from one of the 3-year-old's latest litter. A 3rd 3-yo female from that litter lives in a neighbor's yard, but spends lots of time in mine, and several other neighborhood cats eat at my diner. Most of then won't let me get within arms-length, but the one mom-cat and the older tabby will sometimes let me rub their backs. I'm working on the two kittens.

Hoping to get them socialized to the point I can hold them, and then take them to be neutered, chipped, and vaccinated.

Gonna have to post pics of the whole kaboodle one of these days.
Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired
ID: 1651722 · Report as offensive
Profile Bill Walker
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Sep 99
Posts: 3868
Credit: 2,697,267
RAC: 0
Canada
Message 1651726 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 17:51:20 UTC - in response to Message 1651687.  

As an aside, this created a lively discussion in the office as to exactly how many cats you had to own before you officially became a Crazy Cat Lady.


I have heard "four" or more, which we had for a couple of years.

I have also heard "double digits".


Most of the cat owners in the discussion claimed it was "one more than I have".

ID: 1651726 · Report as offensive
Profile Es99
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 23 Aug 05
Posts: 10874
Credit: 350,402
RAC: 0
Canada
Message 1651734 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 18:21:53 UTC - in response to Message 1651726.  
Last modified: 11 Mar 2015, 18:22:09 UTC

As an aside, this created a lively discussion in the office as to exactly how many cats you had to own before you officially became a Crazy Cat Lady.


I have heard "four" or more, which we had for a couple of years.

I have also heard "double digits".


Most of the cat owners in the discussion claimed it was "one more than I have".

In other words, we are all teetering on the brink of becoming crazy cat people.
Reality Internet Personality
ID: 1651734 · Report as offensive
Profile Dimly Lit Lightbulb 😀
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 30 Aug 08
Posts: 15399
Credit: 7,423,413
RAC: 1
United Kingdom
Message 1651740 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 18:32:49 UTC



Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

ID: 1651740 · Report as offensive
Profile janneseti
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Oct 09
Posts: 14106
Credit: 655,366
RAC: 0
Sweden
Message 1651769 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 19:11:53 UTC

Foxes are vermins?
Not here but the population is smaller now becuse of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies
Foxes are also very shy so they don't encounter humans very often.
ID: 1651769 · Report as offensive
Profile Julie
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 28 Oct 09
Posts: 34041
Credit: 18,883,157
RAC: 18
Belgium
Message 1651771 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 19:17:55 UTC

The fox is an endangered species in Belgium.

http://www.vulpesvulpes.nl/index.php/k2/artikelen/wettelijke-status

De vos werd op 1 april 2002 een beschermde diersoort onder de Flora en Faunawet.

rOZZ
Music
Pictures
ID: 1651771 · Report as offensive
Profile janneseti
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Oct 09
Posts: 14106
Credit: 655,366
RAC: 0
Sweden
Message 1651795 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 20:28:12 UTC

Here we have illegal wolf hunting despite this.
The wolf has increased in numbers in Sweden since it almost completely disappeared in the 1970s. The population is still small and consists of 350-400 animals. According to the Swedish Species Information Centre, the wolf is endangered in Sweden.
The reason for the "hunting" is that those few wolfes are a "danger" to humans and kill or wound domestic animals.
The northern people thinks it's alright because most wolfes are in the North.
Fair enough, but why shoot them?
And we many bears and wolverines that do the same.

btw One summer a stray wolf run through Stockholm:)
ID: 1651795 · Report as offensive
Dena Wiltsie
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 19 Apr 01
Posts: 1628
Credit: 24,230,968
RAC: 26
United States
Message 1651813 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 21:01:15 UTC - in response to Message 1651567.  

That moma cat was a smart cat. She was a rescue sort of. She was pregnant and went people shopping. We did not select her. She selected us. How that works. I do not know. We had no say in her decision making. Even the dog had to move on over. She just came over and moved in and stayed.
Has anyone have that happen?

My mother did. The next door neighbor had several cats and when they started doing construction on their house. One of the cats didn't like it and came over begging my mom for food. My mom figured she would feed it for a few days and when the construction was over, the cat would move back. WRONG. The can continued to eat at moms as well as camping out on her lawn furniture. In winter my mom would put some warm bath towel out for the cat to sleep on and when my mom went east for the summer, the cat would move to a house in back of my moms house. When my mom returned, it would be less than an hour before that cat was back yelling at my mom for leaving it alone and wanting to be fed. The cat would have an attitude for a few day and then all would be forgiven. One year my mom returned from her trip and the cat didn't return so we can only guess it met it's demise.
ID: 1651813 · Report as offensive
Profile janneseti
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Oct 09
Posts: 14106
Credit: 655,366
RAC: 0
Sweden
Message 1651863 - Posted: 11 Mar 2015, 22:32:08 UTC
Last modified: 11 Mar 2015, 22:32:33 UTC

An alligator made the hole number 7 on the Myakka Pines Golf Club in Florida somewhat difficult to play on Wednesday. After the ball landed a few feet from the hole an alligator trotted up and layed near the hole.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/alligator-orsakade-golfproblem/?l1
ID: 1651863 · Report as offensive
Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 16 Oct 07
Posts: 13130
Credit: 39,854,104
RAC: 31
United States
Message 1652751 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 6:11:59 UTC

I have had the pleasure of spending some time in a couple of parts of Florida. If you look in the ditches on the sides of roads there, sometimes you will see alligators! These ditches collect standing water and alligators just hang out there.
ID: 1652751 · Report as offensive
Profile janneseti
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Oct 09
Posts: 14106
Credit: 655,366
RAC: 0
Sweden
Message 1652773 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 7:37:32 UTC - in response to Message 1652751.  

I have had the pleasure of spending some time in a couple of parts of Florida. If you look in the ditches on the sides of roads there, sometimes you will see alligators! These ditches collect standing water and alligators just hang out there.

I have seen that alligators in Florida likes swimming pools:)
ID: 1652773 · Report as offensive
Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 16 Oct 07
Posts: 13130
Credit: 39,854,104
RAC: 31
United States
Message 1652819 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 11:24:02 UTC
Last modified: 14 Mar 2015, 11:29:56 UTC

Curious people look everywhere, Chris.

Of course I didn't spend the "whole trip" looking in ditches, but alligators are not hard to spot if you know what you are looking for. I even saw a couple of big ones in ditches at the Kennedy Space Center, and of course I saw other amazing things there.

I have seen Miami, the Florida Keys (pre-Katrina) and Orlando. I was told that there are parts of the Florida Keys where one can see alligators on one side of an island and crocodiles on the other, but sadly I never saw any crocodiles.

I did not see any raccoons in Florida, but I'm pretty sure that they were there...
ID: 1652819 · Report as offensive
Profile Angela Special Project $75 donor
Volunteer moderator
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 16 Oct 07
Posts: 13130
Credit: 39,854,104
RAC: 31
United States
Message 1652850 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 13:14:07 UTC
Last modified: 14 Mar 2015, 13:16:43 UTC

A few days ago we saw two "new" raccoons in our yard and one of them was missing 3/4ths of his tail!!! I assume he lost it in a fight or that he had some sort of horrible accident. He looked to be in perfectly fine shape otherwise. Given the tail situation we pretty much had no choice but to call him "Manxie". The other raccoon who showed up with Manxie was soooooooooo big that he reminded me of Cilantro from many years ago. I decided that this other "new" raccoon had to be named Coriander, in honor of Cilantro's memory.

I put "new" in quotes when referring to these raccoons because Manxie seemed to recognize me. When I went outside to put a few grapes out for them, both raccoons bolted, but Manxie didn't go too far. Also, when I opened the window in a back bedroom to talk with my visiting raccoon friends, Coriander looked nervous and backed off, but Manxie just kept eating all the time I was chatting with him. Generally, raccoons who do not know me go immediately under the deck or entirely out of the yard when I open the back window to chat with them.

I have to assume that Manxie, and possibly also Coriander, are former kits that I had socialized a couple of years ago. Manxie might just have more memories of being here when he was a baby. Since they showed up together and left together, Manxie and Coriander are probably sibling brothers. Raccoons who show up by themselves this time of year might be boys or girls. Herman von Vermin, for example, who ALWAYS shows up alone, may very well be a Hermina von Vermina, just stopping by for a quick bite before getting back to her den to nurse her babies. Tiny Tim, who also ALWAYS shows up alone, may well be a Tiny Timathea. Time will tell. Timmy seems young and if she is a girl, she will doubtless have kits, but none of them may survive for very long given her age and size. If "Timmy" comes back next year with a few kits trailing her, we will certainly have to change her name!

Anyway, if Manxie and Coriander are former kits, then it makes me wonder where they have been or why they suddenly showed up for a visit the other night. A raccoon missing most of his tail is easy to identify, and it didn't look like this was a new injury. You would think that with such a distinguishing physical characteristic I would have noticed him if he had visited me as an adult before!!!

Where Old Manxie went after he stopped being a kit in our yard is unknown to me. How he lost his tail is unknown to me. What I used to call him when he was a baby is unknown to me. They look (and act) quite different as adults, so returning kits are very hard to identify as adults, unless they have some very special distinguishing feature like the scar Herman von Verman has on his shoulder or a white raccoon "uni-brow" like one of my kits years ago had. Snowball, for example, was definitely NEVER a kit in our yard. I can say that with complete confidence, as I would certainly have noticed a blond raccoon kit!!!

So what Old Manxie has accomplished, or not accomplished, across the course of his little raccoon life will never be known to me, his human friend.

Raccoons are just mysterious that way...
ID: 1652850 · Report as offensive
Profile janneseti
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 14 Oct 09
Posts: 14106
Credit: 655,366
RAC: 0
Sweden
Message 1652866 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 15:16:50 UTC

Whoever invents a garbage container that a raccoon can not open will get the Nobel Prize:)
Raccoons may have settled in Sweden.
Fantastic fine animals - when it's in the right place.
https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsverigesradio.se%2Fsida%2Fartikel.aspx%3Fprogramid%3D83%26artikel%3D5801675&edit-text=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=5801675
ID: 1652866 · Report as offensive
Profile Es99
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 23 Aug 05
Posts: 10874
Credit: 350,402
RAC: 0
Canada
Message 1652892 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 16:52:16 UTC - in response to Message 1652819.  

Curious people look everywhere, Chris.

Of course I didn't spend the "whole trip" looking in ditches, but alligators are not hard to spot if you know what you are looking for. I even saw a couple of big ones in ditches at the Kennedy Space Center, and of course I saw other amazing things there.

I have seen Miami, the Florida Keys (pre-Katrina) and Orlando. I was told that there are parts of the Florida Keys where one can see alligators on one side of an island and crocodiles on the other, but sadly I never saw any crocodiles.

I did not see any raccoons in Florida, but I'm pretty sure that they were there...

I am pretty sure that if there was a risk of something running out of a ditch and eating me, I'd keep a pretty close eye on the ditches.
Reality Internet Personality
ID: 1652892 · Report as offensive
Profile zoom3+1=4
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 30 Nov 03
Posts: 65709
Credit: 55,293,173
RAC: 49
United States
Message 1652902 - Posted: 14 Mar 2015, 17:18:22 UTC - in response to Message 1652866.  

ID: 1652902 · Report as offensive
Previous · 1 . . . 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 . . . 63 · Next

Message boards : Cafe SETI : Raccoon Update XX I - All are welcome in the Critter Cafe


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.