Raccoon Attacks

[ru4liberty]

Now I understand why Traficant doesn't shoo that critter off his head. Mean little boogers!

[phantomworker]

Thanks for posting that. I have 3 raccoons that took residence in my backyard since my german shephard bought the farm.

They enjoy fruit trees and a fenced yard so they are nice and plumpy and keep dry under the porch deck. Once they let me watch them play with my deceased dog's toys as if they were my pets. Cute, but I know what varmints they are. I'm afraid to use my backyard, so I guess it's time for ghostbusters.

[ironman]

My brittany tangled with a raccoon about 2 years ago. He got a hold of the raccoon by the belly and sprinted about half way across the back yard with it. They were really going at it big time, lots of noise, and my guy had him pinned on his back . I took a shovel and got them separated. My dog only had a few minor scratches, surprisingly. I think the raccoon probably survived but he for sure never came back.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sounds like a bad scene :~)

We have pretty frequent raccoons at our beach house, the spooky thing is that they will look right past us at my brother's cat. Like we aren't even there. The cat's not bright enough to be afraid either :~\

I don't see them here, even though I'd think I might, with horses and feed in the barn they might pillage. No possums either. Could be the dogs are out there enough to keep them from coming around... and it might also be that coyotes keep them in check... We have a big pack of coyotes around... and a raccoon would be a bounty of a meal, if they can catch them before they get up a tree.

[Sam Cree]

Yes, it's kind of like the ocean - a thing of the greatest beauty, that exerts just the strongest pull imaginable on some of us. Yet something that has to be respected at all times.

I don't think it does to live a life that's too complacent, somehow a very vital part of us goes to sleep if everything's perfect. We aren't designed to live in a world where we never have to be alert, where safety is complete, where we don't have to do things for ourselves. I know that sounds weird, but I'm convinced it's true.

[HairOfTheDog]

It doesn't sound weird to me. :~)

[RosieCotton]

If Josie ever decided to tackle a raccoon...I'm not convinced the raccoon would definitely win. That cat ain't sane.

It'd make for an interesting fight, for sure.

[HairOfTheDog]

That's true... It's not only the big burly guy who thinks he has an invisible chainsaw we are afraid of in the subway, a small one is just as scary :~)

[RosieCotton]

LOL! That's about it. Especially when the small one is a paranoid schizophrenic who is pretty much immune to pain when he's riled up.

Like I said, though, it could be an interesting fight.

[afraidfortherepublic]

My husband says that raccoons are really small bears. They can be vicious and destructive. We trap them around here and dispatch them to raccoon heaven (my husband's job). Sorry to be so blunt, but relocating them just relocatges the problem into someone else's yard.

We will not loan our trap to anyone who says they will let the coon go "out in the country on someone's farm". We are all out in the country, whether we are farmers or not, and the coons go after poultry, pets, etc. They will rip the siding right off your house, or barn to get what they want. And frequently they ARE rabid.