Welcome, Richard, to the Critter Cafe - home of raccoon fanciers and other assorted wonderful people! Great photo! Thank you for sharing it with us. Thanks also to the friends who coaxed you out of Number Crunching!!!

Sorry, only got human critters for you....


'So this is where the cousins moved to'


'This must be the water hole. I think I'm getting something.'


'Arecibo? I think the antenna's malfunctioned again'

If anyone's trying to guess the locations, please leave out #1 - don't want to go there again. But I'd like someone to have a go at #3, before I make a dedication - there's a SETI connection (and, since it isn't clear from the photograph, I should say it's a well-known landmark and viewpoint. Not on Wednesday, it wasn't!).

What sort of a critter are you? I think I'm an ant.

Welcome, Richard, to the Critter Cafe - home of raccoon fanciers and other assorted wonderful people! Great photo! Thank you for sharing it with us. Thanks also to the friends who coaxed you out of Number Crunching!!!

Sorry, only got human critters for you....


'So this is where the cousins moved to'


'This must be the water hole. I think I'm getting something.'


'Arecibo? I think the antenna's malfunctioned again'

If anyone's trying to guess the locations, please leave out #1 - don't want to go there again. But I'd like someone to have a go at #3, before I make a dedication - there's a SETI connection (and, since it isn't clear from the photograph, I should say it's a well-known landmark and viewpoint. Not on Wednesday, it wasn't!).

Thank you Richard for visiting the Cafe. Seti connection eemmhh, better get the right location first.

Somewhere in Scotland?

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I can see you!

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You will feed me...feeeeed me.

Certainly, you raccoonishness.
How about a mixed platter of fruits, nuts and insects with a side dish of cat food? Anything for dessert?

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Anything for dessert?

Raccoons are quite partial to butter cookies...

Anything for dessert?

Raccoons are quite partial to butter cookies...

Well they are welcome to a choice of german 'Plaetzchen' in the run up to Christmas. From the wiki entry to raccoons it looks like I might find myself with some in the garden after moving...

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Carola
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We're not picky eaters...

Whose got the blanket?

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Ringtails!!

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PRR #5550 4-4-4-4

Well I have some bad news, I've decided I've had enough, Not of Grace, But of Her clawing at My bed(under It), On My clothes hamper at night when I've gone to bed as She wakes Me up, On My Recliner and On My sofa, So I'm looking at having Her, Declawed since she's only just an indoor kitty, It will cost Me either $125 or $150 for this.

To those who don't like this, I have a scratching post and She used It once and only once, cause after She started jumping up on top of the platform on top of the post, she then stopped using the post, It means I have to put off getting the new A/C Compressor for the Car(123.79+13.82(ship)=$137.61 on ebay), But that's the sacrifice I need to do It seems. :(

I am well familiar with scratching and destroying furniture. I can suggest one thing that worked for me years ago. My previous cat would scratch everything, all the time. For some reason I had brought an old car tire into the house, and the cat started scratching it, and stopped scratching everything else. I had it propped up against something, and the cat liked to climb on it and start scratching. Make sure it can't roll though. It looked strange having a tire in the house, but it worked.

Steve

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If it's just an old tire you need, you could go to the junk yard and get a worn one for $5. Worth a try anyway.

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PRR #5550 4-4-4-4

I have a good tall scratching post, Grace now ignores It as She regards It as a place to only perch on while looking outside. It's an idea, But since I have no old tire and the 2 new tires are budgeted for October, that's out. Besides I'll go to the one for $125 as It's what I can afford, I have to buy some swamp cooler parts, pay a personal loan back to a friend as He may be moving, buy a drier/accumulator for the car(A/C filter really, wish I could adapt the one I have as It's for a different Escort than My '99 Escort zx2), buy some stuff Grace needs and of course support US both for August.

Angel I managed to train cause She was Younger than Grace(less than 6 months when I'd picked Angel up), Grace is almost 1 year old by comparison, So I think She's stuck, So until I get Her operated on by the Vet, She'll be confined to the bathroom(when I'm sleeping at night) where Her box is at and She'll have Her bed there too, After that It shouldn't matter.

Well, for me I have resigned to the fact that furniture is going to be shredded. The corners of couches and chairs take a real beating. We have a very nice 5' cat tree, and a lot of it is shredded as well, so its not like the four cats don't use it. They just suppliment it with everything else. My wife is a huge cat lover, and if I don't want to be neutered, then the cats can do no wrong. :)

Steve

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Vic, before you declaw, http://www.howtodothings.com/pets-and-animals/a1845-how-to-stop-house-cat-behavior-problems.html try some less radical things. I bet she is still stressed out from the move.

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Try using a spraybottle filled with water. You have over two weeks. Spray it in her face, when she is doing a nono. My cats only scratch my trees and rose bushes, so maybe a piece of a tree might make a good diversion for her, especially is you lock her up with it at night.
Let me know if you are willing to try it and if it works. I may get unlucky someday and get a scratcher too.

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Before you declaw.. you might try sprinkling catnip on the scratching post..
and perhaps cayenne pepper on other things not to claw.

for the cayenne.. a little goes a long ways.. sprinkle not pour.. a couple of pieces of cayenne dust up the nose might dissuade the behavior.

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I have picked up some Catnip at the 99 cent store last week and haven't opened it yet. I could send that to you. I am sure one of your neighbors has some cayenne pepper you could get and a spare spray bottle you could borrow.
A heck of a lot cheaper than the declawing.
Getting the AC in your car fixed is a health issue. Declawing Grace is cruel unless you have tried other suggestions first and it is the last straw.
Heck you only had her a week.

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I have a question about raccoons. Me and the BF were having a discussion about how vicious squid can be and naturally the topic turned to who would win a fight between a squid and a raccoon.

Obviously the raccoon would be given scuba equipment to even the odds in an underwater fight.

Squid Vs. Scuba equipped raccoon. Who would win?

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