Some dirty rotten b-stard

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Some dirty rotten b-stard; Dead raccoon stuffed in my trash can
Topic Started: Jul 7 2012, 11:53 AM (536 Views)
heatseeker	Jul 7 2012, 11:53 AM Post #1
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	We've had a heatwave all week, and were trying to get one of our houses ready to sell. The tenants had left a trash can full of assorted garbage, so I left it on the sidewalk for pickup early Tuesday morning. Later that day, I noticed every trash container but ours had been emptied. A quick look inside revealed a dead raccoon, stuffed in there after I set the trash out -- the city crew decided it was untouchable. Several phone calls and a day later, other city employees disposed of the raccoon, which was good, because the smell was terrible and noticeable from many feet away. But the heat wave persists and it may yet be a few days before the city makes a special garbage pickup. I'd like to nab the culprit and make him or her wear a dead raccoon around his or her neck for about a month this summer. 017



FuzzyO	Jul 7 2012, 12:19 PM Post #2
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Yuck. Dreadful thing to do, though the perpetrator may have thought he was tidying up.



Dialtone	Jul 7 2012, 01:26 PM Post #3
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	If I had a dollar for every dead racoon I handled as a kid and invested it wisely, I might be worth a lot more than I am now. Had it been me, I would have sent the tenants a bill for $100 clean up fee, then put the putrid coon in a garbage bag and then put it in a city dumpster. Of course if maggots have set in, you have a fishing bait opportunity. The coon would have probably been the better smelling thing in the dumpster. biggrin 04



swing	Jul 7 2012, 02:32 PM Post #4
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	I so despise those damn racoons. My daughter had two in a tree in her front yard when I was there one time. They had to put all garbage in cans or it's all over the alley. She finally called someone to dispose of them. What do they do trap them and drop them off in the country? This is the way they dispose of squirrels here! The bright dr. at the back of us would feed those rodents. He quit when they infested his attic!! Can we say justice!



heatseeker	Jul 7 2012, 03:26 PM Post #5
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Toronto is north America's raccoon capital. Their only predator is the car. Besides ripping open garbage containers, they are noisy, often holding screaming matches at 3 am.



wildie	Jul 7 2012, 04:35 PM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	I use the raccoons for disposal of spoilable garbage! I put chicken left-overs out there at night and the next morning all that is left is a pile of clean chicken bones. They do love their Kentucky Fried Chicken! LOL!



Trotsky	Jul 8 2012, 12:02 AM Post #7
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I have never seen a racoon.



FuzzyO	Jul 8 2012, 12:05 AM Post #8
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	That's surprising Trotsky. I would have asumed they were as common in your cities as ours.



Darcie	Jul 8 2012, 12:55 AM Post #9
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	For many years we have had a little skunk living under the garden shed in the back yard in Montreal. It must have a problem as it never has reproduced. It goes to the school yard every early dawn and at dusk and never creates a problem. It has to cross a busy road and is an example for school kids on how to cross. He looks at us and I swear he smiles and goes on his way. He does not smell at all. We attribute the fact that our area has few raccoons because of him. All the neighbours love the skunk, it leaves our garbage alone. Raccoons are very sociable, my eldest daughter who lives on the Ottawa River has a raccoon that comes and eats with her cat out of the same bowl on the deck. They do not fight and get along well. This raccoon is very old so maybe that is why there is no little raccoons.



haili	Jul 8 2012, 01:55 AM Post #10
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,084 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	It costs hundreds of dollars to get raccoons removed from the attic and my daughter has had that happen twice. If only they'd go to the homes of the people that feed them there would be some justice. My neighbours insist on feeding birds in the summer and that attracts mice and maybe other rodents, even though there have been editorials in the paper and the condo newsletter asking people not to do that. They are pretty animals but very destructive.



heatseeker	Jul 8 2012, 03:12 AM Post #11
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	We attribute the fact that our area has few raccoons because of him. All the neighbours love the skunk, it leaves our garbage alone. We, too, have a skunk living under our garden shed. But she does not deter the raccoons at all. And she digs up our lawn in search of grubs and worms. 017



angora	Jul 8 2012, 03:18 AM Post #12
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	We lived by a creek in our former house and there were racoons aplenty. They liked our grape vines which were just outside our bedroom windows. The mamma would bring the little ones late at night to feast on grapes. They were adorable. We'd all get up to watch them. Oddly enough, although lots of the neighbours got racoons in their attics they never once invaded ours. They do make one horrible noise when the fight (mate?).



wildie	Jul 8 2012, 11:50 AM Post #13
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	One year I went to the cottage in the spring to turn on the water supply. i had disconnected the plastic input pipe in the fall. When I went to reconnect it, it had been pulled back into the crawl space. This meant that I had crawl in there to retrieve the pipe. When found the pipe, I also found a nest full of raccoon babies. Looking around I seen the mother up on a beam, between the floor joists. The crawl space had vents closed of by a steel mesh made from 14 guage wire. The mother had chewed through this, and managed to get in. Figuring that I should drive her out, I got a hammer and started banging on the joist to make her run out. I had left the entrance door wide open and thought that she would run out there! I asked my wife to look in the vent and to let me know when the 'coon ran out the door. Banging away, I heard my wife scream so I crawled out to see what was the matter. Apparently, the raccoon had run right on past the wide open doorway, heading for the vent that she was accustomed to using. Of course my wife had her face in the vent and she and the 'coon became closely acquainted, which scared my wife, near to death. The scream had scared the mother back to another inaccessable area and I was forced to abandon my intentions to scare her out. Wondering how to do this, I decided put a radio down in there at full volume, tuned to a country and western station and left it on when we returned home. Next weekend, when we returned, mother and babies were long gone!



Durgan	Jul 8 2012, 12:18 PM Post #14
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	wildie Jul 7 2012, 04:35 PM I use the raccoons for disposal of spoilable garbage! I put chicken left-overs out there at night and the next morning all that is left is a pile of clean chicken bones. They do love their Kentucky Fried Chicken! LOL! They do love their Kentucky Fried Chicken. Wow! A use for this product. Better the raccoons than humans.



Trotsky	Jul 10 2012, 05:41 AM Post #15
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	FuzzyO Jul 8 2012, 12:05 AM That's surprising Trotsky. I would have asumed they were as common in your cities as ours. All we have are mice and rats in the subway tunnels.



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