[Sca-cooks] No Sh*t, there THEY were in MY kitchen

[Elaine Koogler]

While racoons and racoon stories are cute/great/whatever, please be very careful
around them.  One came into our basement through what was our cat door one night
last year.  Phillip went to the basement door in the morning as he needed to
retrieve something from down there, and was greeted by the fellow, who looked
very scruffy.  We called Animal Control to come get the critter out of our
basement.  Turned out that he was rabid...we had to get fresh rabies shots for
both of our dogs and one of our cats...the only reason we and the remainder of
the cats didn't have to get them was that we had no contact with the animal.  We
had to restrict all of the animals to the house for a month!!!  Not a fun
thing....but far better than catching rabies!

So...though they are cute and fuzzy, they can be dangerous, so be careful.

Kiri (who doesn't really enjoy raining on people's parades........ :-(  )


Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>      I used to work at a resort hotel that had a raccoon that lived in the
> bushes by the Tiki bar. We had hosted a wedding on the patio, and when I was
> breaking down, I looked over as the raccoon just walked past me on the rail.
> This was not even 2 feet away from me. He started to climb into the trash
> can, so I smacked his butt and yelled at him to beat it. He drew back with a
> VERY surprised expression on his face, sat down, and proceeded to cuss me
> out in seriously rank raccoonese.
>     This just irritated me (look, I'M the primate around here, right?), so I
> hauled off and bitchslapped the obnoxious ursoid while loudly offering to
> serve him up as tomorrow's special.  The 'coon fell over backwards and took
> off, loudly threatening to turn me in to PETA (I guess), and I went back to
> breaking down. However, I had forgotten about the guests . . .
>     When I looked around, there were about 50 people looking at me in pure,
> absolute shock. I looked back at them, and said "ah, don't worry about it,
> I'll buy him a beer tomorrow and we'll get over it, he's a regular." The
> expressions on their faces were priceless . . .
>
>     Sieggy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hehehehe,
> >
> > Reminds me of the family of racoons that would invade the kitchen nightly
> > in search of edible morsels.  This was at a holiday camp for children, up
> > in Algonquin Park, in Ontario.  We'd come in the morning and have to fight
> > for our precious ground.  Very early on, one of my assistants suggested we
> > catch them and cook them.  While I wasn't opposed to the idea, the camp
> > director was very much opposed, and we never did anything else than catch
> > and release.  <shrug>
> >
> > Nicolas
>
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