Psycho Raccoons are attacking and killing pets in Olympia, Washington.

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs...NEWS/608210327

 

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Link works fine for me.

But hears a link to another copy of the story.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8JLHKF00.html

 

I saw a raccoon beside my alley neighbor's garage door circa 2003. No lie, that SOB's back must've been 30 inches high, and it probably weighed 40-50 lbs... He'd have easily kicked both my dog's ***** with no problem at all. I saw another one (and it was still daylight, 2004) duck into one of the drains as I was mowing the yard. That one was probably a 15-20 pounder.

Big sunzabychez. I saw a few when I lived over off Rosemeade Parkway & Haverwood near the Tollway, circa 1998 - 1999. With access to so much food in these neighborhoods, the raccoons are getting bigger and bolder. I jut bought a high-powered pellet pistol to tighten that **** up if I catch one in my yard. Would have bought a real istol, but discharge that in Plano, and you'll go to jail.

Then again, I've seen a freaking badger in our alley, and one at my mother in laws house (The one at my MiL's house looked like a freaking baby Panda Bear. I didn't even know badgers were indigenous to Texas...

Since I've been in Plano, I've seen:

Llamas (Custer & Park, on that farm), Something that looked like an anteater (Long snout & everything), two badgers, a few raccoons, buffaloes (You know, the "Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam? Yeah, that kind...), Oppossum (dead), and one coyote (Legacy & Coit).

 

Those Raccoons are crafty and smart as hell. I used to feed one from my hand until I found out that they can be big time carriers of Rabies.

It all started when I left the cat food out on my deck over a weekend when I was gone. I come back and opened the screen door and then this Raccoon starts walking right into my house! It startled me and I yelled some obscenities at it but it just stood there in total belligerent defiance. Then after about a minute he finally slowly backed up.

My huge Tom cat would just sit there about 6 feet away and watch the Coon eat its food. Why did it do this? I surmised because it knew that the Coon would Kick its A$$! I liked the Raccoon but eventually he moved on, probably to start a family.

 

You sure bout that possum? They are pretty crafty. I have seen all of the above minus the buffalo (in town) and "ant eater" looking critter.

 

City folks.....

This is day to day life out here in the woods.

Respect nature and it will respect you. If not, then shoot it's ****.

Not to long ago I had a opossum friend, he'd come up and eat the dogs food from the front porch every night. I could hear him crunching it or moving the dish while I was watching TV. So I'd go out yell and he'd run off into the woods. We did this for a few months, then he started getting brave, he'd run off the porch, then stop and see if I was going to come after him.
Eventually I was chasing him all the way to the woods screaming like a mad man flinging my arms around. Then one night he stopped, turned, hunkerd up layed his ears back and hissed at me. I stopped, looked at him for a second and said alright, I'm done with this game. I went back inside, got the S&W 22A, semi auto .22 pistol. Went back out chased him off again. Again he stopped, hunkered up, layed his ears back and hissed at me...... I put a bullet in his mouth. GAME OVER, I win!

 

We have a 30lb+ racoon problem. They are always in our trash. I bit the bullet and got tired of cleaning up trash and bought some rubbermaid cans and bungee cords and they dont get in anymore.

I think they are ticked thogh because now I constantly have coon tracks all over my F150, last night they tried to climb the side of the bed, little muddy sliding prints down the side...

I need to get a pellet gun or something. Can't have a real gun at this point since Im not a "Citizen" yet (will be dual).

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I went chasing what I thought was my pain in the rearcoon last year. Grabbed my sling shot and I was off. I noticed he was moving kind of slow and plodding along a little bit. I grabbed a shovel while in pursuit, I was ready to hit him over the head or cut him in half or something. I got closer, slingshot in one hand, shovel in the other and realize it was a freaking Porcupine! Needless to say I ended the pursuit, althought I did successfully tree it...

 

I too was once messing around chasing a Possum and the thing turned reared up and hissed at me, it was ready to brawl! I thought better of it and let it go on its way.

 

Coons.....sweet. Let me and my buddies run around that town for a night with our spotlights and tunnytwo's and by mornin it would be "Coon WHO?"
Coon hunting is the best


Possums (oppossums, whatever) eating the dog food-they get No.8 shot from the .410 right in the **** the minute I see them. Its no "Run, hunker down, hiss" blah blah, its open the door and come out a blastin; things dead before it even has time to ***** itself...

 

.410?

No.

I think 10 gauge is appropriate.

 

Pansies learn ot shoot!!!!

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I don't miss...


I love coon huntin', I got rid of my dogs because I just didn't have time to devote to it or them like they needed, they were going to pot... Pot bellies that is!

I kept my hot lite, belt, dog box, and other gear.

Though the pot belly helped keep my epeliptic dog from climbing the tree before I got there. The Crazy ****, I wasted more time getting him out of the tree so I could get a clear shot than I did hunting..... Sometimes had to wait till he had an epeliptic siezure and finally fell out!


Bartak, what hound do you hunt with?

 

I just heard the story on the news. Raccoons are pretty nasty pests. Not only are they extremely cleaver and capable of getting into closed containers; they can be vicious. Thank God that's one pest I haven't seen around here, the deer eating everything in sight is quite enough thank you.