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Possibly Rabid

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  1. I hate raccoons, these so called cute little fuzzy bandits killed most of my brothers turkeys and some of his geese by getting into their pen and ripping them to shreds just for the hell of it. My brother traps them and puts them into a 55 gallon barrel full of water with a lid on top and drowns the bastards and puts their bodies into a large black plastic bag and throws them into the garbage. If I see raccoons on the road while I’m out driving I will deliberately try to run them over. And in the State of Wash. there is an open season on raccoons where you can kill them anytime and for any reason and as many of them as you can get rid of.

  2. I had four raccoons for pets when I was much younger. They are wonderful animals. I understand that some people don’t feel that way, because of their behavior. They can be pests and very destructive, but they are also interesting critters. Raccoons have overrun parts of Europe. Several of them were released from Herman Goering’s private zoo at the end of WWII, and they have reproduced into hordes of masked mammals.

  3. That’s funny. I had a raccoon living between my apt and the one upstairs. The managemt didn’t want to kill it because of the kits. Ok, but I reminded them to close up the hole when they moved out or they’d be back and they WILL destroy property.

    Anyway, I think they are cute, but not in my house or yard. As that one climbed my porch post, I took pictures. I named her ‘Hillary’. It just fit so well, including the tail!

  4. I often had raccoons in my back yard when I lived in Washington (state). One morning I woke up to a “clicking” sound. Three juvenile raccoons had climbed on the top of my shed outside my bedroom and were looking at their reflection in my bedroom window. They chattering made a clicking sound. when they saw me they tried to climb off but to no avail. I had to go outside to help them off the shed while their mother watched from a distance.

  5. Aleon I thought it was a possum. A possum died inside my brothers wall of his house in Seattle. Anyway after looking for what was stinking up his house they found the dead maggoty infested remains of a what was a possum inside his wall. It was quite a mess to clean up. I’ve never seen a possum over here in Eastern Wash. but they sure as heck have them over in the Seattle area.

  6. Raccoons: flea-bitten, disease-carrying, destructive little shitbags that breed like rats. They eat your fruit, climb your fruit trees and break their branches, kill your chickens, walk all over your garden and generally wreck things wherever they go. They routinely con cats out of their catfood and attack small dogs to claim territory (especially if fruit trees are present). Most women think they’re “cute.” (“Ahhh, isn’t he cute?!“) In large groups, they will attack children and adults.

    The only good raccoon is a dead raccoon.

  7. geoff the aardvark and flower guy: The State of Washington KNOWS that the western half of this state is currently overrun with the varments – but they do nothing about it. Where I live, most people won’t kill them. But I got me seven – a whole family – this year alone. But it’s a drop in the bucket. 500′ to the south of me, there’s another extended family of at least 10 that will no doubt migrate north and take up residence.

    There everywhere! Just like Democrats!

  8. Actually, the appellation coon is derived from the word raccoon. I don’t know where the more modern appellation “Mother F**ker” came from, but it’s certainly not as insulting to raccoons.

  9. raccoons are very cute, they have very cute voices, and they are seriously dangerous to your pets….

    that being said….they’re still very cute…..not very plentiful around here, or i might not be so acceptable of them…..the one time my dogs got into a fight with one, it was probably lucky i had two dogs against one raccoon…..

    unfortuantely, we haven’t seen our zoose since halloween, and it haunts me that someone abducted him to use for some stupid halloween costume featuring a dog head on a stick…..

    people are like that now……it’s like we’ve gone back to the dark ages….

    i’m not long for this world, and i’m actually going to be glad to leave here, the sooner the better……

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