HUGE Racoon in the garage!!!

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It's a good thing you didn't corner
him.
You would of been in for the fight of your life.
He would of cut you to ribbions
big time.
Consider yourself Lucky.
 
I can see the Fox special now:

"When animals attack Pablo"
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I came across a young racoon in the garage snacking on cat food once, and claping my hands and yelling did not bother it in the least! He looked at me as if to say, "I'm not done yet, go away!" Bold as could be.... I went inside and came back and he was gone....
 
At least the muskrats, weasels and river otters don't come in the garage.

Thank God the deer stay in the hills....on second thought, the freezer could really be full.
 
I got the same problem, but it comes with living outside of the city. Caught 11 skunks in one year; just today disposed of a ground hog out near the bean patch. This year also includes a opossum - add to that foxes that took out some chickens. My only complaint about living in the country is I see people pulled over in cars letting the critters loose from their have-a-heart traps!
 
Sounds like that raccoon has a regular food source, do you go through a lot of bird seed?
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The only time I've seen a raccoon that big was at a campground in South Dakota. They were going to campsite to campsite and they were fat, we thought they were bears.
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They actually opened the cooler and managed to eat everything except the milk. They even opened a jar of mayonnaise!
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-T
 
We had state champion racoons at one of my former jobs (my wife works for the same outfit). It was a residental treatment center. The dumpster area was always full of spent food. There were mulitiple trails (well worn) into the woods nearby. At night, leaving, your headlights would show about 10 or 12 sets of glowing eyes ..just waiting for second shift to leave. They didn't have dumpsters per se`. They had these big plastic barrels (bigger than 55 gallon size) ..one young one managed to get inside ..but wasn't heavy enough to tip it over. I tipped it over to let him out. He didn't seem too nasty ..but I sure wouldn't want to tangle with any of the adults.

This is not too far where my wife reported seeing (what she described as) "rabbit cats". She kept telling me about seeing these "rabbit cats" that were sitting on top of the same trash enclosure at another building when she left from work. She finally said it in front of the right person (a maintenance man) and he asked "Do these "rabbit cats" get frightened by you?" ..she said that they didn't seem to fear her at all. He then, after a more detailed description figured out that they were bobcats. They then got an animal control officer to trap (and I think dispatch) the animals. She was lucky that she didn't get attacked.
 
Bring back memories of coon hunting when I was young. It would take sometimes four dogs to take down a coon if the shot didn't take it out. Lots of scars on those old dogs. Between me and dad we'd shoot about 4 coons and 4 possums a year when they go after our chickens. Still fun to ask dad about the holes in the barn, he can't aim worth a darn half asleep.
 
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Originally posted by Pablo:
he did like a 15ft burnout, he couldn't get traction on the concrete.
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That is freakin hilarious!
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The other night we had coons on our deck and my dog treed one right next to the house. Dog actually had a hold of it; we thoight it was injured. We watched from inside as he made his way down after about an hour, and he wobbled and clean fell out of the tree. He slowly got up and stumbled off in a stuper. I really hope the little ******* wasn't injured.
 
Dern near krapped myself...face to face...3 ft...he was snacking on bird seed. I came in the back, he went out the front....he did like a 15ft burnout, he couldn't get traction on the concrete.

I yelled like some kind of wild man. If I would have kept my composure, he'd be in the freezer with the beaver or on the bbq tonight.

[ July 01, 2005, 09:38 PM: Message edited by: 59 Vetteman ]
 
when we vacationed in canada, the coons would either tip the trashcans (with 40+ lb rocks on them) or remove the bungie cords to get to the tender morsels within.

we saw some on the porch that had to be 50lb. big, fat, and sharp at every corner.
 
A girl friend of the ex had a large male racoon that she had raised. Had to keep it caged about once a month as it would get hard to handle even for her friend. It was a hit at parties as it would strip bracelets, watches, and other shiny objects off of guests and then horad them somehwere. Being very curious and having good dexterity they have quite a bit of character, but like a lot of decent sized animals they can also be dangerous.
 
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A girl friend of the ex had a large male racoon that she had raised. Had to keep it caged about once a month as it would get hard to handle even for her friend.
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I have a pet female raccoon that I raised from a kit. I have never heard of the pet males being particularly aggressive, but the females are quite vicious when they come into heat - the whole family (except me) was scared of her so I had a vet friend of mine fix her and that took care of that.

I have only been bitten once when she went for a crawdad I had in my hand and bit clean through the web of my thumb. That hurt ...

Some people keep them as house pets, but I would think they would destroy a house pretty fast. I built a 10'x10'x10' pen with a tree inside it for ours.
 
A couple years ago I went to visit the Brock Monument in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was dark out and I counted over 20 visible racoons on/around one dumpster. It was amazing, I can't even imagine how many were hiding in the bush or in the dumpster. If I worked there I wouldn't go outside after dark! (I wouldn't even get out of my car) Cleaning up after them every morning wouldn't be too cool either.

Steve
 
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