Last month, I wrote about my neighbors suspecting something was living in their attic.
A week or two ago, they discovered it was indeed a raccoon . One morning, they caught him climbing up a very small tree to get onto their roof. I don’t think they’ve found the hole yet, but they had been finding insulation scattered in the yard on a regular basis.
Since the quote from the exterminator was $700, they decided to try to catch it. They rented a humane trap from Animal Control.
On the first night, they caught an opossum. Animal Control came out this morning and released it.
Tonight, the trap was set out on the roof. Unfortunately (for the raccoon), he must have started freaking out once he was trapped, and the cage slid off the roof and onto the ground.
Poor little guy. Now that he’s trapped, I feel bad for him! He’ll be stuck in the cage all night until Animal Control can get him in the morning.
Yet when they’re invading your property, you see them as the bad guy.
We haven’t had any “break-ins” (knock on wood), but they show up in our yard often. Once a raccoon was walking through our yard when we had about six people sitting on the deck — that party quickly moved indoors!
I haven’t seen the caged raccoon, but my husband went over. Not intentionally to see the raccoon — my neighbor called him, and told him he had to show him something!
Not nearly as gruesome, but reminds me of the time my husband asked me if I wanted to see something cute.
As I walked over to the sliding glass door to look outside, he said “Oh, and by cute I mean disgusting.”
Meadow, the stray cat that lives in our yard, had killed a mouse. The mouse was on the step, and the cat was curled up beside it!
Having no personal experience with racoons, I always forget they potentially smell and just think they look cute! The pesky little critters we deal with here are possums – they don’t do the stink thing but they run loudly across rooves, get into ceilings and generally run amuck! We don’t have a problem though, because there isn’t any bushland near us.
I’m not sure I could handle a racoon in my attic. I have to deal with mice occasionally and that’s enough for me. It’s always better when it’s the neighbors house though! Makes you fell lucky!
That was supposed to be feel lucky. Fell lucky could be a whole other comment!
ok… so it’s skunks that stink, not raccoons. I’m not so hot with North American animals ;)… so why don’t people want to go near raccoons? They look quite cute to me.
Raccons look cute, but they can be nasty. You don’t want to mess with them! They also can carry rabies …