Raccoon Nation..coming to your neighborhood.

Raccoons are NOT cute! They are dangerous! Forget traps and Steve's rifle. I'm goin' for landmines!

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Too bad they aren't as cute and cuddly as they appear. It's an excellent disguise.

Now, here's a solution the the scourge of the evil little bastards:

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Yeah Now!
 
That Guy said:
Too bad they aren't as cute and cuddly as they appear. It's an excellent disguise.

Now, here's a solution the the scourge of the evil little bastards:



Yeah Now!
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Sometimes I get into moods where I'd rather see raccoons wearing human-skin coats ...

We get the rare raccoon garbage-pail attack here but that's about it. I guess if I were a country boy I might think differently. MY big thing is rats, roaches and fleas - it's a lot harder to fight an enemy you can't see.
 
The only raccoons I ever see are usually passing through at night, over the high back fence railing. .. they don't come into the yard. Or anyway, haven't so far! Had a baby raccoon wandering around in a neighbors yard a couple weeks ago, but it seems to be gone. Guess they've all hooked up and wandered back to the woods. ?? Hope so.

I agree Phil ...about the problem with those critters that you can't see ...fleas, termites... are they or aren't they there?...

We have cockroaches that you can put a saddle on here in Texas .... 2 inches long and they fly at you! .. When it is super hot like it is now, they want to make their presence known.
And darn rats can get super sized too. . . some are almost the size of squirrels. The only comfort I have in seeing them, is when they are around, there probably aren't any BIG snakes in the area ...
 
We have those big dark 2 inch 'American Cockroaches' too, we used to call them Yank Tanks where I worked. It was Central station, a century old, and plenty of hiding places for them, and because they only come out at night the bosses didn't believe us when we told them how many appeared on night shift.

Back in those days we still used methylated spirits in the copy/printing machines so we'd squirt the 'cockies' with metho. It kills them in less than 5 seconds so you don't have to chase them after that. Then we'd take the cellophane wrappers off ciggy packets, drop the roaches in and thumb tack them to the bosses doors.
We got a box of baits to lay out and insect spray for our trouble, but it was still a matter of making our own arrangements for the problem.
These days there would be a fully clad bio-hazard squad called in and picket lines of striking unionists.

I stomped on one that went off like bunger!. The POP! was incredibly loud. Apparently if you hit them just right the sudden air pressure blows their innards out of their..... but that's really too much information isn't it?
 
If I can find it again, I should post the video of a Russian rat chasing cats! It's running back and forth along a fence among a bunch of cats that are curious but definitely not about to mess with it.
 
No gorey details.. Just that the critter was shot just on top of my driveway which is gravel.. The road is also gravel..
The clean-up was something else.. I took out the hose and it was the only way to get rid of the mess.............
 
I can sympathize Steve, a baby mouse exploded when the trap hit him amidships once. Unfortunately it was on the edge of a pantry shelf and he left me a real good reminder of his passing to clean up.
 
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