Those bandits struck again!

Some of you follow me on F\acebook and know that I have been setting live traps to nab the raccoon bandits that have been nightly draining my bird feeders. After capturing two of them, I thought we had the problem under control. Wrong!

Oh my gosh, I think I'm going to have to pull out the live traps again. I just went out on my patio and looked toward the bird feeder that is closest to the woods. There at the base of the birdfeeder were two raccoons. One was hunkered down on the ground. The second raccoon climbed up on its back. Then the first raccoon did an "elevator" move. This allowed the second raccoon to reach around the squirrel buffer and reach the bird feeder. It quickly put its paw on one of the bird perches and the bird feed tumbled out.

Oh how I wish I had had camera. I never realized that raccoons worked in pairs!

I've been having the same trouble, one raccoon opens the refrigerator and the other pops bread in the toaster, the first one causes a distraction by singing opera, while the other one gets out the orange marmalade and butters the toast. And it was the good kind of marmalade with the Seville oranges too !!!

Then I woke up and a corner of the mattress was missing.

[Robin Garr]

Then I woke up and a corner of the mattress was missing.

I've been having the same trouble, one raccoon opens the refrigerator and the other pops bread in the toaster, the first one causes a distraction by singing opera, while the other one gets out the orange marmalade and butters the toast. And it was the good kind of marmalade with the Seville oranges too !!!

Loved this!
What if you go ahead Gayle and throw out some cheaper, still in the shell, peanuts to appease the raccoons
so they won't fill up on your seed?

Carla, been there done that. They cleaned up the peanuts and then went to the bird feed! But thanks for the thought. Keep on thinking!

Where is Ranger Ricks when you truly need him?

Gayle, on one of my trips home this summer, I looked out on our porch at night and one of the fattest raccoons I've ever seen was eating the cat food. Continued trapping and removal far, far away is about the only humane thing that works. Otherwise, it's lights out for the little fellas!

I love the buddy system thing! Maybe, before you trap them, you should rig up a camera and get that on video and win $10,000 on AFV!

Carla, veen there done that. They cleaned up the peanuts and then went to the bird feed! But thanks for the thought. Keep on thinking!

Any of you guys who have ever been divorced will likely appreciate this one...I know I do.

A few years back a friend of mine got a frantic call from his EX-wife at about 3 in the morning. It seems 5 Racoons (The mom and four or her adolecent offspring) had climbed onto the picnic table (which was located under the kitchen window) and then scratched a a hole in the window screen and were now helping themselves to anything and everything the kitchen had to offer. Despite being half in the bag and despite having just lost everything but the shirt off his back to this woman (who I might add was a poster child for the word "Biache") Jeff piled in his truck and went over to remove said Racoons. His first move was to get a push broom from the garage and try to "shoo" the critters out. This resulted in 5 pissed off Racoons and Jeff taking refuge on the kitchen countertop and himself making a brisk exit out the kitchen window. Being a resourceful individual Jeff retreated to the truck where he removed a 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol and a ruger .22 Caliber rifle from behind the seat. Locked and loaded Jeff reentered the house and for the next 10 minutes the sounds of a gun fight worthy of Clint Eastwood himself rang from the rafters. In the end Jeff was left with two smoking barrels, 5 dead racoons and a house littered with shell casings that now resembled the scene of a Racoon axe murder. Without a word Jeff walked out to his truck with his EX-wife in in-trail and babbling something about him cleaning up the mess...In true Clint Eastwood fashion he cased his guns, started the truck and after rolling down the window called out to his EX "It's YOUR house now, YOU clean it up.

Steve,
Hilarious!!! Thank you for a good laugh!

lol.... love it... that is even better than ignoring her....

That should be a SNL skit.