Posted on 04/12/2018 3:04:28 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Ha ha. My poor 7 year old son is really scared of racoons. Probably a healthy fear. They do kill cats and really kick the crap out of dogs.
Parts here in Mississippi that’s called dinner. Even the road kill variety
Don't forget the rabies...
Prehistoric raccoons weren't anything to sneeze at.
Maybe the raccoon self-identified as a tiger.
Playing devil’s advocate here: “Well, who’s going to come out to take away a troublesome raccon? A tiger, however, gets their attention!”
“Meow honest mister kitty police. We can’t identify him as he was wearing a mask”;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcjzaqL0pE
Raccoons are brilliant little thieves. I camp a lot. I don’t worry about bears or coyotes. I worry about coons.
I once had a Rubbermaid bin with a bunch of cooking supplies and a bag of peanuts. I put a collapsible jug with 5 gallons of water in it on top of the Rubbermaid and snapped the lid shut.
I hear a noise around 3am and saw a herd of coons. The noise I heard was the Rubbermaid bin closing. A coon slashed the jug, drained the water, opened the bin and stole the peanuts. Grudging respect.
Another time, a coon unzipped a pocket in a friends backpack and took his deodorant. He dropped it pretty quick after realizing it wasn’t food.
City folk, no wonder Demonrats control large cities.
Yes, and they truly can be very vicious if backed into a corner. I love but also respect animals for what they are.
I have 3 watch-raccoons that live in the oak tree. They come on the porch at night. They guard the house coz they got big teeth and sharp claws. They like to get fed dog food and be petted while they eat. They chase away the wolves when they come around.
For goodness sakes, haven’t they ever been to the Bronx Zoo?
Camping near Atlantic City Wyoming during the first major snowstorm of the fall. It was a full moon. A shape was moving along the edge of the tent. Casting the flashlight into the darkness revealed a beaver...but it was no ordinary beaver. Its eyes glowed crimson red, and his breath carved trails of steam between his jagged gore encrusted teeth. It was no regular beaver, but the dreaded were-beaver of legend. I once though lt tales of the were-beaver were myths conjured by the gold miners of the 19th century, later expanded by the iron miners who followed, but that night after losing 6 of our party I learned better. I can still occasionally hear them chopping wood in the dead of night.
Maybe the caller was an old veteran. In World War II, every enemy tank (however big or small) was a German “Tiger” tank to the guy screaming into the radio.
Maybe they didn’t want to be considered racist for calling the cops on a ‘coon.
Agreed. I tend to believe city folk have a culture that is cmonfigured to depend on government and police for protection against raccoons and tigers and other unknowns. Many will gladly give up theirs and our rights to instruments of self defense.
“They do kill cats”
The reason why we have four formerly feral cats living in our house. As babies, they were being threatened by MONSTER (nuclear?) raccoons on our property. Our house was on the river about a mile from Oak Ridge National Lab (Manhattan Project), and we saw some extremely odd and super-sized critters. And
Cockroaches and poodles are the only animal life that New Yorkers are familiar with.
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