Five raccoons at once!!

"Axolotl" wrote in message :

Be very careful when dealing with raccoon poo, it can contain a very very
nasty round worm (or the eggs thereof) that can kill you,


Can't we just LEAVE THE POO ALONE?

Angrie

You see, the pond water isn't pristone like the cat water. After sticky
your paws in the pond water to eat snails and search around, then you go
to the cat bowls to dine and dip your food in the clean water and wash
your little feetsies so you're nice and clean to go home. Ignore the
gray cat sitting a foot away glaring at you (and the human watching you
both). Be sure to leave your little footsy prints all over and knock
over a few bird feeders before you leave! When you return the next day,
the empty mud and duckweed filled bowl is full with fresh water. A
miracle! And the 2 gallon pot pond with canna that you splashed all the
water out of the day before is also full again so you can repeat your
grand performance of splashy-ness!

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 wrote:

interesting, they are washing their food in the cats dish rather than in the pond.
Ingrid

Robyn Rhudy wrote:
put dirt in the cat's water bowl (with duckweed topping),



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Raccoons kept raiding and breaking a birdfeeder in a tree just off my deck, and
DH started shooting them. I took my feeders down ... not fair to lure them in
and kill them, to my thinking. In time, I put them back up, and didn't have
the problem so much. One evening I looked out and a raccoon was lying on the
ground, one foot propping up it's head, eating one sunflower seed after
another. I have a picture, I'm not making it up, I swear.

And then, like you, one day mom and five little 'uns came around the side of
the garage and walked down the driveway and into the woods. : ) It was about
a 200 ft. stroll, so I got to watch for some time. Didn't have a pond at the
time, and no garden, so I loved seeing them. Big eyes at night shining in the
flashlight ... I loved it!