[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
I fucking hate raccoons.[/quote]
Why the coon hate?[/quote]
My childhood home in Boulder was kind of near the mountains. We had three poodles, and a dog door. Racoons used to come into our house (before we realized it was them) and open our freezer up, steal food, and leave. Okay, kind of cute and funny.
It got really bad one summer, when we had over 30 raccoons to deal with, sometimes five in a night.
Boulder wouldn’t deal with the raccoons, so we had to get a skunk trap, trap em, and take em out to release them in Open Space far far away. Not fun for my dad, esp. when the live raccoons in the garage in the cage would chew through every wire within reach.
One night two raccoons fell into a window well. Dad had to shoot them. Traumatic.
Late that summer, the 5lb male poodle started stinking. Just stinking. Took him to the Dr., turns out he’d gotten into a fight with a raccoon. The 'coon shook him and literally separated the skin from the flesh underneath. The skin was rotting away.
Anyway, we got the puppy saved, and managed to keep the raccoons out with a welded steel lock on the door (they broke through wood), but that entire summer was spent in battle, and I hate them for it.


