Posted on 06/13/2018 3:37:13 AM PDT by C19fan
A. To show the possum it could be done.
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Years ago I had the first of four Coons over two years time.
Zorro was the 1st. Only a week or so old when I rescued Him from the City. Bottle fed and weaned I was the first thing He saw.
Zorro slept in the headboard, took showers and/or baths, played with the Dogs, ate dog food or anything else you gave him, had his own bag of popcorn (or he would steal mine) while watching TV on the couch. He was like a cross between a Dog and a cat. His favorite food was a dozen scrambled eggs and Pine Nuts.
Zorro would go every where with Me. When He rode in the Suburban I’d roll the Drivers window down and leave a couple of inches still up. He would hold on to the window with His rear feet and the big rectangular mirror with the front feet and ride in the wind with His mouth open, tounge flapping in the wind. The Girls at the Bank would give him Treats. He would ride in the shopping cart at Home Depot. He would play with the Dogs, hanging off their collar with 3 feet while smacking them with the other hand so to make play time more equal I’d take the collar off.
Larry, Moe and Curly are a whole nother chapter.
They would entertain each other.
All four of them left on their own accord when instinct struck them and off to the wild they went.
LOL, I saw a youtube the other day of a chubby unicorn that took a pretty big wildebeest that annoyed it, and it tossed that big wildebeest at least 10 feet straight up in the air, and when the thing hit the ground, it didn’t move around much.
I saw another one where several lions were messing with a chubby unicorn, and finally, it zeroed in on one of them, and just ignored the others and chased that one all over creation...it simply would not give up. It passed all the other lions like they were tree stumps, and was focused on that single lion.
Heh, I don’t want to mess with chubby unicorns!
Say that word raccoon is racist it has to be changed because liberals say so.
There is something about that line that goes to the heart of what it is that I find appealing about them, even while recognizing that they can be destructive vermin...
I think it is one of the things I love about cats too-
They can only be domesticated so far. There is always a part of them that is completely separate and their own. I like that. Cats can go back to being wild creatures fairly easily, because that part never leaves them...you see it surface when they catch something, and their eyes actually change right in front of you to something wild and feral.
I adore dogs. But dogs are very much like us in many ways.
LOL!
(I know...I would have paid money to see that chicken catch him!)
Your experience with them is very different from mine.
I grew up on a chicken ranch. Most of the pests would just steal the eggs or food. But the raccoons would hold down the chickens and take bites out of them, especially from the soft guts area. When we would find the mangled chickens in the morning, they were still alive, with guts hanging out.
For that, I detest raccoons.
WOOF! ;)
The veneer of civilization is very thin in us, too.
LOL, that is the truth. Take away food, water, and shelter...
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