A Raccoon Story

[Snowmom]

Entertaining, I'm sure!

I'm sure you'll end up hearing if it did have rabies.
There was a bat around the Mpls lakes area that ended up having rabies and they posted warnings everywhere to let people know.

[Blackcat31]

What did they end up doing with it BC?

No idea... I figured I'd go ask the neighbor later this afternoon and see if they know.

Entertaining, I'm sure!

I'm sure you'll end up hearing if it did have rabies.
There was a bat around the Mpls lakes area that ended up having rabies and they posted warnings everywhere to let people know.

Yikes! I don't mind bats so much as they eat mosquitoes but the thought of them flying around with rabies is creepy for sure!

[Blackcat31]

:: wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

Raccoons are pretty much a "shoot on sight" animal on my property. What they can do to a chicken coop isn't pretty. I've never understood how a beneficial animal like a possum gets such a crappy rep because it's ugly while a 20 pound carnivorous rat is "Cute".

Usually at my house, it's that way because yes... raccoons aren't exactly beneficial so they can't really "live" with us like the rabbits and the deer do....

We had one earlier this Spring and my DH had to trap it in a live trap. He had planned to set it free but those little buggers are vicious! DH had on his welding gloves and still couldn't grab onto the handle of the trap without being bit and hissed at. In hindsight it was kind of funny but not...kwim? He ended up having to put the poor thing down as it had done a good deal of damage to itself trying to claw it's way out of the trap before we got to it.

Later that same night I was watching an episode of Northwoods Law or some show like that and they had shown a raccoon being trapped in the same type of trap and being driven a few miles into the woods where the DNR officer set the trap down and stepped back a couple inches and lifted the door so that the fluffy little cuddly puff ball could waddle off into the woods with a sweet appreciative expression on its face. Forever grateful to the nice man that saved him.

I found myself standing up in the living room screaming at the TV "FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!! That raccoon is an actor as that is NOT how that stuff happens in real life!!!" :: ::

[Mike]

"this is what happens when it's all written down but no one's actually done it!" ::::

:: So true

I'm betting it had rabies.

[LysesKids]

:: So true

I'm betting it had rabies.

No worse than my son sending a picture to me of the rooster walking down a 4 lane road near where I grew up... no joke; off of Veirs Mill in Wheaton, MD - a fricken' Rooster. Now I'm not sure about the laws, but Montgomery Co is pretty strict & always was when it came to certain animals not living on a farm even back in the day just because it's near Wash DC

[flying_babyb]

we had deer outside my old center. I miss them! The one I work at now is way to city, and we do enjoy watching the local squirrel who someone is feeding.

[LysesKids]

we had deer outside my old center. I miss them! The one I work at now is way to city, and we do enjoy watching the local squirrel who someone is feeding.

You won't like the deer when they come crashing thru a glass window of a school daycare... it happened my youngest before I was doing childcare; heck in Eureka Springs, AR its a given that deer walk down the middle of the street & lay in peoples yards everyday. Made it interesting for the tourists and the kids were use to it . Actually got to the point the city gave permission to bow hunt them because they became so tame ( this is where I lived before moving to TN)