"Video shows nearly 100 hungry raccoons − some allegedly aggressive – swarm a Washington state woman's home last week in broad daylight looking for their next meal."
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"Video shows nearly 100 hungry raccoons − some allegedly aggressive – swarm a Washington state woman's home last week in broad daylight looking for their next meal."
One constant in every situation like this is the inevitable chirping from morons who sagely pontificate that "This is their habitat!"
ReplyDeleteYeah, right. Blow me, dumba$$. It's my frickin' habitat too, dickhead.
Yeah, I hear a lot of that "they were hear first crap" here, too. My response is usually, "So, you're going to give your property back to the Indians, right?"
DeleteMake that "here" not "hear".
DeleteThe world needs more people like the sweet old man who married my mother after my father died. He had a mule and a pack of coon hounds, and he liked raccoon hunting (when he wasn’t selling oil rig equipment to wildcatters).
ReplyDeleteI still don't understand the people that keep them as pets. They are wild animals that are basically huge rats with big, bushy tails. Nasty critters, from my experience.
ReplyDeleteShe gave some free stuff and now they and their friends are demanding MORE!
ReplyDeleteSorta a metaphor for our country.
Exactly. LOL.
DeletePeople keep on thinking that the wilderness is just a large petting zoo. SMH.
ReplyDeleteThe lady in that story should have known better, and I bet she was warned repeatedly by her family and friends.
However, while the area she lives was pretty rural 38 years, these days, it's practically a Seattle suburb, thanks to the ferry system (and that's a whole other story). So, of late, I bet she was encouraged by her peers. More fools they.
Back in Walla Walla, I had a neighbor had a raccoon problem, as he left food outside for his cat. Naturally, the raccoons helped themselves, hence the problem.
His solution: live trap and relocate, using traps he built himself. When he told me that, I suggested not leaving the cat food outside.
He actually looked disappointed when I said that.
More SMH.
A lot of people here keep bird-feeders, and they attract deer, rabbits and rats. If we had a lot of song birds, maybe I wouldn't mind so much, but most of the birds here are mockingbirds, and they're aggressive, cantankerous little bastards.
DeleteBird feeders are very common, and I don't see a problem with them -- aside from the moochers, of course. I've seen plenty of interesting things people do to keep it bird only.
DeleteIt's the larger animals that are issue. I mind me on Hollywood celebrity who had a "ranch" in Jackson Hole, and wouldn't allow hunting of elk, nor state funded herd culling. He had quite a herd on his property, and thought they quite attractive.
That changed after one winter, when that herd got hungry, ate all the vegetation INCLUDING his flower bushes (such as they were in the winter), and had started on the wooden fencing and buildings.
The problem is that the mockingbirds get in there and make a mess, kicking the feed all over the place, including on the ground, and then the rabbits and rats come along. And then my neighbors - the ones with the bird feeders - complain about the rabbits eating their flowers and vegetables. They just can't comprehend cause and effect (probably Harris voters).
Deletemy father in law had a running battle with squirrels and chipmunks responsive to his bird feeder; he had a pellet gun to shoot at them and live traps which he would empty at the dump.
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