[cpdiii]

I was on a date one time and the boy I was with hit a racoon with his car.

Despite their cute little face and bandit like markings, racoons are smart vicious little vermine that will attack and kill a cat and maim your dog and also carry rabies. I live in the country side and not the city. On more than one occasion I have killed a racoon with a well placed shot from my shotgun. I wish the animal no ill will. If by chance I do not get a clean kill I will track and kill the animal to put it out of its misery.

[Viking2002]

Yarp. I'm from coon country, too. They're all cute and cuddly and can be marginally domesticated like your average house cat when they're young enough, but too many damn fools don't realize how cranky and ornery they get once they get some age and a few gray whiskers on them. They'll get downright mean after several years, no matter how you bring them up. Combine that with them being evil smart, and you've baked yourself a tin of Domestic Crisis Pie if you take one in like it was a border collie pup, and expect the same results.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[goat granny]

Coons are nasty predators, they kill just for the pleasure of it as one got into my chicken coop, killed and ate one and killed 1/2 dozen more just for fun, chewed up the leg of a guinea. I either shot them or drown them in the live traps I caught them in...I found a decapitated wild rabbit behind my bay and the body over by the barn...didn’t eat it, just killed it...they decapitate when they kill...carry rabies, and if caught in a live trap will hiss, spit and grown at you unti they meet a bullet...nasty piece of work and will decimate your rows of corn in the garden...the only good coon is a dead coon..