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Caught these on our surveillance system the other night. The system has caught them before, but not this close. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | ||
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Garden variety Raccoons. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
Raccoon If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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Raccoons. ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Well- fed raccoons. _____________________________ "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington. | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
Raccoons. Trash Pandas. | |||
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Trash can bandits!!! _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Yep, they ain't missing any meals. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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Trash Panda 100% ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Good thing they aren't woodchucks, or they'd be chucking your wood like a woodchuck chucks.... | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Well, I guess they're raccoons  Thanks for the confirmations!
We have those, too. Next door neighbour spent a goodly amount of time, last summer, evicting and re-evicting one from under his shed. They used to make home under our's, until we had a new shed built and I surrounded it with packed crushed stone--which they seem to dislike for digging. My wife keeps trying to convince me to terminate the resident groundhog--with prejudice. But, beside the fact discharging a firearm within township limits is verboten, there are homes "downrange." They're maybe as much as 1,000 ft. off, through very dense woods and brush, and I'd only use a 22, but, still... "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I kinda miss seeing raccoons, used to be lots of them here but rabies seems to have wiped them out. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Back not long before I retired my wife spotted one in our yard in the middle of the day. Called a next door neighbour over. He called a friend, who came over, verified probable rabies, and dispatched it--township ordinances be damned. (Neither they nor the county would send anybody.) Our small critter population (racoons, groundhogs, bunnies, roaming cats) waxes and wanes, depending upon whether the coyotes are about. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Well you're a little far north for Chupacabra's so I'm gonna go with raccoons. | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
Coons. Sometimes they make a strange bird-like chirping sound. Pretty freaky if you never heard it before. | |||
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About 15-20 years back hunters, actually their damn barking dogs, treeing raccoons often kept me up at night. Noticed a big female that nested in a pine tree with her little ones one year and man were they cute! Unfortunately some idiots in eastern WV or western VA decided to relocate raccoons from Florida and among them was at least one with rabies and rabies has spread westward through the raccoon population. Some agency, I suppose DNR, is dropping rabies vaccine bait to try to get it under control. They decided the Ohio River is somewhat of a natural barrier so they started there and have been working east. We'll see. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Wolverines. | |||
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Live trap, baited with canteloupe chunks. use the rind to smear over the outside of the trap to kill your scent. Woodchucks cannot resist it. Once trapped, remove to safe area and either relocate or terminate. They are destructive bastards. One chuck can move 150lbs of dirt a day. Foundations are at their mercy. if you get a family under your property, it's a nightmare. | |||
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Yup, racoons. A few years back on a very cold winter night I got up about 3 AM to go to the kitchen and have a cup of coffee. I heard all kinds of rattling and clattering in my attached garage and opened the door to see what was the matter. (Sounds kind of like "It Was The Night Before Christmas" doesn't it?) And what to my wandering eyes did appear, was one big assed raccoon siting on the seat of my Honda CV500 motorcycle!  "If you think everything's going to be alright, you don't understand the problem!"- Gutpile Charlie "A man's got to know his limitations" - Harry Callahan | |||
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