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Posted: June 17 2006 at 11:41pm | IP Logged Quote Rebecca
We live in the suburbs. Raccoons are pretty common here. I have some little boys who often leave our side door to our garage ajar. I closed it this evening. Tonight, I heard a strange noise coming from my back yard. It was sort of a scraping, gnawing sound. I looked out my kitchen window to see a raccoon (who had apparently gotten in my garage when the door was open and was now stuck) CHEW its way out of my garage. Yes, that is correct, it chewed a hole the size of a soccer ball in my garage eaves and climbed out. Watched the entire thing. I still cannot believe it. Now I have to find someone to patch the hole. Just wanted to share the audacity of this masked critter. Who does he think he is, chewing a huge hole in my garage? I am still in shock.      

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They are bodacious, aren't they? We had one jump on the back of our Great Dane and go for a "Nantucket Sleigh Ride" across the yard, holding onto the poor dog's ears! You should have heard the howling (from the dog) and the snarling (from the raccoon)!

Good luck fixing that hole. What a headache for you

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Posted: June 18 2006 at 5:11am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Oh Rebecca, this must be the week for raccoons! I was just writing a post about them as we've had them here every recent night, and finally got some pictures. You know how much I love woodland critters, but these guys kind of freak me out.

Ours keep taking down the birdfeeders and dragging them off into the woods. I have found most of them but one appears gone forever! But no such damage as what happened to your garage!!

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Posted: June 18 2006 at 10:41am | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
Kelly wrote:
They are bodacious, aren't they? We had one jump on the back of our Great Dane and go for a "Nantucket Sleigh Ride" across the yard, holding onto the poor dog's ears! You should have heard the howling (from the dog) and the snarling (from the raccoon)!

Good luck fixing that hole. What a headache for you

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I am absolutely cracking up!!! Your poor dog must have been traumatized!!

The only trouble we've ever had with raccoons is that the dogs will bark at them at night and keep us awake and sometimes they get into the trash cans (but then so do the dogs!). Nothing like holes in the garage, stolen bird feeders or sleigh rides!!!

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Posted: June 18 2006 at 8:52pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I saw these pictures today (sent by a neighbor of my mom's) and it reminded me of this thread. Talk about bird feeder raiding! This gal is a pro!
Bear raiding feeder

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Posted: June 19 2006 at 4:24am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
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Bear raiding feeder


Oh my, I think I would faint away dead if I ever saw this in my backyard! I have this irrational fear of bears and mountain lions (bad dreams and all) neither which lives anywhere around here.

We had a fox running through the neighborhood this weekend. Now, I've seen a fox before, but this one's tail was not at all bushy - it couldn't have been a, gulp, small coyote, could it?

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