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To: RosieCotton

Yeah, like I said in the SC too... raccoon didn't occur to me either. I haven't seen any raccoons, but I know they're around, and I guess they'd eat blackberries, which are ripe right now. I don't know if I thought they'd bury it like a cat or what, but I've never known raccoons by their droppings or given any thought about what it might look like. Deer, rabbit and coyote poo, I've seen back there, but nothing with berries in it. I associate that with bears, and it really set me back wondering what to do if I had a bear around. We had one a few years ago just a mile from here that was repeatedly spotted along the freeway at 93rd, eating berries like the cars weren't even there. I was concerned enough about him then that I stopped leaving garbage outside... for awhile. We've got a can outside now again, but back then, I saved it up till I had six cans then went to the dump.


659 posted on 09/14/2006 5:46:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

The raccoons also have a habit of leaving them in obvious locations like on logs or in the middle of a path; some say it's a territorial marker. There was a log across a creek up on a project site we regularly used to get to the wetlands area on the other side. Big piles of raccoon poop on both ends so the marker theory may have some real basis. Scats are actually quite interesting from an ecology point of view. Good markers for diet.


665 posted on 09/14/2006 6:17:41 PM PDT by LSAggie
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