...Or weasels...
Posted on 07/11/2012 5:42:50 PM PDT by Blackirish
A Washington state woman suffered 16 puncture wounds and over 100 lacerations after being attacked by a pack of raccoons. Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Lee was jogging on a trail near her Lakewood home when her dog spotted two raccoons and chased them up a tree. “I went over to pick up the leash and head home when three other raccoons just charged out of the grass straight for me.
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If they can’t capture and take the heads in for testing of every raccoon that bit her she is in for Rabies shots. But those are not the horror they once were. The injections are given in the shoulder and not the abdomen like 20 or 30 years ago. Still painful but far better than going through one of the worst imaginable ways to die.
...Or weasels...
Or democrats!!
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your lttle dog, too!”
I’m sure a pack (or glaze if you must) of threatened racoons will surely be deathly afraid of a little mace. Obviously she has never been schooled about the viciousness of cornered or threatened wild animals. I can picture her spraying mace at the grizzly bear that her dog rousted out of the brush.
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog, too!”
Roast raccoon used to be featured on the menus of America’s best restaurants.
Skinned raccoon can still be sold as long as one of the paws (hands?) is still attached. at least get some use out of the little b@stards. My uncle used to thin the herd with .22 crimped shot, near the trash cans at night with the back porch light on.
And teach the young’uns how their granddads worshipped Davy Crockett, wore his coonskin cap, & wished they owned his Kentucky long rifle.
Would this be covered by Obamacare?
I remember my Grandfather going out at night with the coon dogs and seeing the skins stretched out on pentagonal plywood drying boards up in the rafters of their detached garage. Never ate any, though.
I trapped a third coon this morning raiding my hen house.
Hey, raccoons aren’t funny. A bunch of them absolutely trashed my $600,000 waterfront home; it is currently unlivable. I trapped and released 2 of them; trapped a third, but he died in the trap during the heat wave.:-(
It’s a “skulk” of foxes, even if they’re wearing Socks FoxInSocks.
Just what I feared.. Raccoons have joined the Teamsters Union
Probably a group that has been fed by nitwits on the trail for some time. Feed raccoons and reap the results.
They aren’t funny, are they? We have a fairly nice set of ponds in our yard. The coons routinely dismantle and take away various pump parts, filters, and ornamental objects.
My husband figures the yearly damage at about $300 bucks.
That’s not close to your loss but it’s significant for us.
I trap squirrels, my neighbor traps coons. We have a mutual nondisclosur agreement for the sake of the children.
I actually had a pet raccoon when I was a kid. He was imported from New Jersey.
I grew up on Long Island, NY and my father obtained a permit from the State of New York which allowed us to have two raccoons, but my mother wouldn’t sign on for more than one. He lived in a large cage in woods we owned behind my house, and escaped more than once.
He still had his fangs and very sharp nails. He bit my father a few times, and he got me good at least once.....I gave him a paper plate full of table scraps, and when I tried to grab the plate to add more food, he sank his fangs into my hand. It took 10 - 15 years for the small scar to fade.
My Dad and I once took the raccoon into NYC.....to my Dad’s photographic business....to give him a bath. If you want to attract a crowd of people, try walking near Rockefeller Center while carrying a huge raccoon on your chest! That raccoon turned alot of heads, even amongst jaded New Yorkers.
Eventually, we took him to a large wooded state park and gave him his freedom.
Sorry to hear about the damage to your home. I hope your insurance covers the loss. I miss the good old days when the worst raccoons did was tip over garbage cans.
That's the cat's pajamas.
Wow
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