Home invasion

[Rubes]

So I get home from work yesterday afternoon to find the house thrashed, well the kitchen mostly. trash everywhere, stuff knocked off the counter, window blinds shredded...WTF?!?!?!? As Im standing there trying to figure out what the heck happened, I hear growling/hissing behind me...YIKES, I dont have a dog!!! Turn around to find a 30Lb racoon trapped between two of my brand new Boze wheels (yeah they were in the kitchen, dont everyone store them there??). So they are pretty trashed now too with him trying to knaw his way out.
I've had troublewith critters in the crawl space, can hear them trompin on the duct work, but thought I had that taken care of. I put some traps in there after fixing the hatch (which is outside) but they'r always clear, and I havent heard anything for a few weeks now. Since I live alone, the house is virtually abandoned all day making it a great place for critters of all kinds (found a baby Hawk in my garage once)



I would have gotten pictures, but I was more interested in getting him the heck off my wheels. This sux, cant have anything nice, even if I dont use it.

[Bow Tie 67]

You should have beat the MF'er to death and used him as a hood ornament, or use his pelt to clean your replacement wheels.

[bingham72]

I remember when I was a kid, a racoon got into our house. My dad made us stand on the kitchen table while they tried to chase it out. It left a trail of pee or something all through the house.They finally grabbed it in a garbage can and kicked it outside.
Now my parents still have a kitchen painting my grandmother did of a raccoon laying in a half watermellon.
At least the dang thing didn't bite you. Those things are nasty.

[West Texas Z]

Its good thing it wasnt an actual intruder. I'd be happy to know it was an animal and not some serial killer. lol

[6'9"Witha69]

I know what I would do with that f*er. A Guttermouth song comes to mind.

[trapin]

Rubes....stab the thing in the heart with a knife and then string him up outside near where they're gettin' in. Leave the knife in it's chest for added effect. They'll get the message.

[69Pony]

raccoon - ha that's nothing. Come home to a badger and her cubs in the back of an upstairs closest that is long, low and narrow....

I love animals but had to take a .22 to them.

[J-Rod]

I had the same thing happen with a frikkin huge possum. Ran around trashing things, just trying to get outta the house. And of course, my dog was helping him out.

[streetrod77]

Had a **** in my front yard this year & I just so happen to pick up my new handgun about a week or two before. Its called The Judge. 3 shot from it with 410 shells & it was down. But someone called the police, maybe because of the noise. He was cool though, he just made sure I didn't hit anyone house. Then I bleach the front yard. All in a days work.

[toofun]

Most people think the raccoon is soo cute!! I think they are a menace!! I had a house on the cape and one got into the attic crawl space. It thumped around all night long and made a hell of a mess out of the basement area(It was crawling between the walls at one point. Anyways, we found out that it was going into the Chimmeny all the time especially at night so we figured it had a nest in the fireplace as well. So we called a specialist and he rigged a trap above the chimmeny. The raccoon set the trap off at night and made one hell of a racket all night in the trap. The guy came out the next day and now with the mother traped opened the flu on the chimeny and reached up into it with huge gloves. He pulled out 6 raccoon babies and took all of them away. Said he would have to kill them or they would find their way back. I didnt care just was glad to be rid of them.

Funny thing about the babies though... When you pull them out of the nest they take their paws and cover their eyes!! Kind of like the dog lying over on their backs exposing their bellies. Its some kind of natural defense mechanism....

Mark
TOOFUN

[nitrorocket]

My friend has a 3 year old pet racoon, he playes with the dog and cat, he acts like a catdog. Very shy though.

[mpozzi]

Oh man, this brings back a good story. My friend Debby lived in a huge house with her two brothers (Fred and Alan). The town is loaded with forests and with the trees come loads of raccoons. One evening, Alan hears a noise in the kitchen and finds a young raccoon foraging through the garbage can. He traps it and calls Animal Control to come get it. They do . . .

The next night, everyone's in their respective rooms sleeping. Fred feels a thump on his bed and thinking it's the cat looking for warm covers, nudges it with his foot. The source of the thump growls and hisses which gets Fred's attention in a hurry. He switches on the night light and sees the Mother of all Raccoons (MOR) standing on hind legs returning Fred's attention and sounding very pissed off.

Well, Fred does what anyone in that situation would do. He screams like a little girl, jumps up and out of the covers, grabs the curtains, and tries to get a foot purchase on the headboard which, in turn, brings Alan and Debby running ASAP. The only problem was Fred slept commando and the sight of the twig and dingleberries flopping while 300# Fred was leaping about was more than they could take. Between cracking up, crying from laughter, peeing their pants after laughing hysterically, all the while chasing the MOR (Fred was also involved in the chase part while still in commando uniform), they finally got it out of Fred's bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, and eventually the pet door from which it had entered looking for it's young.

Remember the "Chase" scene between the Rottweiler and the Squirrel in Christmas Vacation? The rooms that were involved in this "Chase" were also practically destroyed and I guess I should end this by saying never piss off a pissed off raccoon.

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

[shortrack]

My friend has a 3 year old pet racoon, he playes with the dog and cat, he acts like a catdog. Very shy though.

one day it will turn on him......its a wild animal......not domesticated

happened to a relative of mine.

[novanutcase]

HA! I got you all beat!

I live in L.A., right by Griffith Park, and I came home one day to the sound of my dog playing with another dog. I thought "Haha! Ain't that great! My dogs are playing with each other!" Problem is my other dog died 3 months before!

I look out the back window and there's a coyote playing with her! I couldn't believe it! How the hell did a coyote get in my backyard? I remember one night coming home and seeing a coyote next to the gate to my backyard and my dog standing there next to it and I had to chase it off but how the hell did it get back there? I had to call animal control to get the damn thing outta there!

John

[go-fish]

We just had a opossum getting the Turkey carcas out of the trash. I was going to get my Sig but I remembered I live in town now. It had to be a knife kill!
I grabbed my CRKT M60, think Rambo knife but smaller. I cornered him in the side yard and hacked him up while blindng him with a flash light. It is pretty thrilling trying to knife kill a opossum while he is hissing and biting at you.
Before anyone thinks I am some kind o inhumane a-hole, I grew up on a farm and we had alot of barn cats and quite a few dogs. We have had chickens, puppies, new born kittens all slaughtered by these things and they are good for nothing. I had to clean up the ripped up carcases of tiny defenseless animals every year. It is tough to guard against them and they are one of the #1 cariers of rabbies. It had to die.
My wife looked at me in a way I had never seen after that. I had too convince her I was sane that night.

[wick]

Yup, an opossum is a nasty animal and will tear your a$$ up.

Get a .22 that will fire shorts. I found a badly injured squirrel in my back yard a few years ago and couldn't let it suffer. I got my .22 rifle that will fire shorts and no one in my subdivsion said a word.

[Aceshigh]

I hear growling/hissing behind me...YIKES, I dont have a dog!!! Turn around to find a 30Lb racoon

This is a great reason to go buy a dog now IMO.

I have a 90lb Staffordshire Terrier (aka Pit Bull cousin)
His UKC papers say APBT, but we think he's too big to be a full blown Pit Bull.
He's 7 now I think. Best home security a man can buy ;)
Raccoon = play toy / lunch.
And they're VERY lovable animals. Nothing like coming home after a bad
day to see a wagging tail happy to see you.

True Story.
You 2 Chicago area guys know the 'hoods.
When I lived in Hanover Park in a house, we had this ghetto section 8 apt complex
right across the street from us. Guys out all night slingin rocks, and 1 night my
mother called me up saying our house was broken into. :mad: So I SPEEEEEED home
as fast as I could. I get there , the police are taking my mothers report.

Apparently the perps kicked our door in.....and then closed it immediately.
When the cop walked in ....he understood why.
At the top of the stairs waiting for them was 2 Pit Bulls, 1 Rottweiler, and 1 mixed breed.
They said hello.....and the perps changed their minds and quickly closed the door.
Nothing was missing of course.....since they never stepped foot inside after seeing them.
Our house was never f'd with again.

[monza]

Now this is a funny thread LOL