Raccoon Story

[YankssRule]

Great forum, now I can tell you my raccoon story :hamster

The other night, at about 2:30 a.m., I heard this noise on the roof of my porch, and so did my cat, Angel. So she puts her lil paws on the window sill and peaks out, I also peak out thru the blinds. I don't see anything. As I am getting ready to get back to my bed, my cat perks up, so I look out the window, at the same time, my cat starts to hiss..and low and behold, a raccoon head pops up, about a foot away from my window (open window w/ screen) :eek . So this thing is staring into my window as my cat hisses on while I am peaking thru the blinds, I move, this catches the eye of the raccoon, so now it stares at me :wired (all it sees are my eyes, because I am peaking thru the blinds). My cat continues to hiss. After a bit of time, the raccoon hunches down, walks right up to my window screen, puts it's nose against the screen and starts sniffing. Mind you, it is now inches away from me :cower . My cat continues to hiss. After a minute or two of sniffing, I guess it decides that there is nothing of significance, so he starts to walk away. At this point, I let my cat onto the window sill. Just before the raccoon jumps off the roof of the porch, it pears back at the window :dunno .

I find it very weird that this raccoon had the "umph" to get so close to my window screen :blink . If it would have scratched or tried to bite thru the screen, I would have grabbed my cat ran out of the room and shut the door behind me :run . But thank goodness that didn't happen.

And that is all folks, no visit from my furry friend last night :shakehead .

Janet :sunshine

[noflyingfan]

That reminds me of the night I saw the grim reaper in my backyard. I got home late, after my parents were asleep, and as I crawled into bed, I heard some rustling outside of my window. I looked out and didn't see anything, so I went to the kitchen, where I could get a better view. I saw this big black thing; it sounded like it was talking, but I couldn't understand the words. Keep in mind that ever since I read "In Cold Blood" I am forever terrified of sleeping at my parents' house, which is kind of out in the sticks. It looked to me like some big guy in a black shroud -- so it was either the grim reaper or a cult member. So I did what any independent woman of 22 would do...I woke my mommy up and told her there was someone outside.

She got up, figuring a neighbor was out there looking for a lost dog, and went to the window. "Erika," she said. "That's a bear."

Thinking back, a bear at the bird feeder (actually, it was two, a mom and her cub) was a lot more plausible an explanation than the grim reaper or a cult member paying us a visit.

[Disney fan]

Oh my goodness, A Raccon and a bear!!! where do you live. The only time I would see those are in a Zoo!!:troll ( looks a bit like a bear)

[YankssRule]

:pokefun ..I like your "Grimm Reaper" story better than my raccoon story :lol

I live on Staten Island, NY..and yes, we have raccoons and oppossums..I hear we even have deer, though I've never seen one. :eek

Janet :flowers

[noflyingfan]

I lived in Pennsylvania at the time. Spotting bears is not uncommon, but it's not exactly common either. Deer show up all the time though.

At least your raccoon story isn't embarrassing. I was seriously petrified that some maniac was coming to kill me. Odd how I wasn't scared when I found out it was "just a bear."

[xiknal]

Raccoons have no fear!

I have raccoons on my porch all the time; they are fearless. I have several outdoor cats whom I feed on a table on the front porch, and though I try to give them their dinner before dark, if I don't make it, the 'coons will come up onto the table and chase the cats off (the cats know to leave immediately). Huge 'coons, too. I have gone out there and found five big raccoons staring at me, daring me to ask them to leave. At first I was pretty intimidated, but now I can pick up a broom and sweep them off. They'll just run up a tree and wait for me to go inside, and then they are right back again. I live in the city proper, but there are creeks and woods around. I see lots of opossums and the occasional skunk, too.

That 'grim reaper' story was spooky; glad it was only a bear! :)

Barb

[xiknal]

Funny thing!!

A very similar incident was recently posted on Captain Stacey's message board...

p209.ezboard.com/ffearoff...D=48.topic (http://p209.ezboard.com/ffearofflyinghelpcoursemessageboardfrm2.showMessag e?topicID=48.topic)

this one involving a possum :hamster <---hamster standing in for a possum

[MadScientist]

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I KNEW this would happen so I coppied my post.
:p

[MadScientist]

ok, no coon story but......

When I was a teenager, I was out hunting in the pea patch for rabbits and possums that like to eat the peas and destroy the plants. I went from there over into the corn field and got a little disoriented after a while. For those of you who've been in a big corn field, you know what I mean. You can get lost. Anyway, I'm out in the middle of this field by myself and I hear something moving somewhere in the corn rows. I kept my rifle ready to fire and I started sneaking around. I would pause and would hear a rustling noise so I followed my ears to where the sound was coming from. About that time, I rounded a blind corner and directly in front of my face was a 7 foot tall scarecrow which may not have scared any crows, but it ****ed sure scared ME. The rustling noise was caused by two aluminum pie pans attached to it's arms that were hittng the corn stalks as the wind blew.

If that ****ed thing had made a sound I would shot it right then and there. :shocked

Oh...and keeping in the spirit of Barb....
:hamster ---- standing in for a scarecrow

Yeah, I know the troll would've been the better option but apparently the hamster can be anything we want.