View Full Version : The Assholes Under My House
urgeok2
03-17-2008, 05:58 AM
little buggers have been there for 2 years, raised at least one family.
I actually kind of like them - they don't seem to do any damage but yesterday they started digging where the grass was exposed so I banged on the glass to scare them away ..
they ran to the hole under the porch .. but then just sat there and stared at me.
anyone (other than the Australians and Kiwis) live anywhere where you don't see these things all over the place ?
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them suckers are mean......don't get to close. I had one fall down my chimney last year.....came crashing into my living room at 2 am....scared the shit out of me and the wife.
Ran downstairs and looked at him...he gave me a "who the fuck you looking at" kinda look and went back up the fireplace.....never to be seen again.
urgeok2
03-17-2008, 06:09 AM
one got between me and the house when i was putting the garbage out early one morning in the rain .. he wouldnt move - i was hissing and waving and he just sat and stared at me until he got bored.
the babies sure are cute though - watched one play with a ball my kid left on the back porch a couple of times
crabapple
03-17-2008, 06:31 AM
Mmmmm.....uh. yeah, yeah. Raccoon. Sort of a cross between a cat and a bear...a friend in Northern California had one that would come to the porch every night to eat marshmallows out of a dish...he called it "Moo Moo"...supposedly these guys can be dangerous when crossed, but I never had a bad run-in with them. Opossums make me nervous, though, with their little toothpick legs and their scary pointy snout...we had an opossum that was running around the apartment building a lot........it was going up and down the stairs, running past everyone's door, going pee pee in the car port under people's cars...weird little gray football-looking thing.
The Mothman
03-17-2008, 06:34 AM
i wish they were more friendly. sure are cute little buggers.
i wish they were more friendly. sure are cute little buggers.
ya think?
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/imagedump/raccoon-by-nal_miama-at-flickr-275356843_bba2ef0ab1.jpg
_____V_____
03-17-2008, 07:29 AM
They can be really vicious and nasty.
Last year, my uncle was having a big problem with one of em making itself cozy in their basement. The whole place started having a weird stench pretty soon and he decided to chase em out with a broom and a baseball bat...and got his thumb bitten clean off in the process. Had to take several shots back then for it and now is 9-fingered for his life.
They left though, and never returned. There was a pappy, a mommy, and 3 kids.
urgeok2
03-17-2008, 07:48 AM
yeah - you don't screw with these things when babies are concerned.
their dedication is kind of admirable in a way - i've seen humans who don't show that much care where their kids are concerned.
awful what happened to your uncle though.
Despare
03-17-2008, 08:46 AM
My aunt raised some that she got from some wildlife rescue foundation and they were fairly tame. Adorable little guys, but I've had one or two hiss at me before and they can look damn mean. The other night I actually had one come up on my deck and sit on our outside bench. He looked pretty comfortable.
Psycom5k
03-17-2008, 08:58 AM
I actually used to have a pet racoon. He was touchy at the worst. We called him theif, found him as a baby on the side of the road, and waited to see if there was a mother around, and there wasn't so we picked it up and brought it home. he lived for 3 years before getting out and getting attacked by a neighbors dog. He was really friendly, but he had these times when he would get pissy. We kinda figured out when to leave him alone. It really wasn't that bad. It was smart though, we had to keep the kitchen door closed at all times, otherwise he would get in there and try getting into the cupboards.
We had a muskrat get into the house before, that ended up in my closet. THat was a nice surprise first thing on a saturday morning when i went to grab something. Started hissing and jumped at me, so I slammed the door in its face and ran to find my father, almost shit myself when it jumped out at me.
urgeok2
03-17-2008, 09:49 AM
We had a muskrat get into the house before, that ended up in my closet. THat was a nice surprise first thing on a saturday morning when i went to grab something. Started hissing and jumped at me, so I slammed the door in its face and ran to find my father, almost shit myself when it jumped out at me.
those are mean bastards...
when we were kids we once witnesses something crazy (and horrible). there was a commotion in the creek that ran through the park we played in and when we went to see what it was - we saw a muskrat and a snapping turtle having an epic battle.
dont remember if we saw who won but it was insane.
anything that tries to take on a snapping turtle must be nuts.
Psycom5k
03-17-2008, 10:27 AM
those are mean bastards...
when we were kids we once witnesses something crazy (and horrible). there was a commotion in the creek that ran through the park we played in and when we went to see what it was - we saw a muskrat and a snapping turtle having an epic battle.
dont remember if we saw who won but it was insane.
anything that tries to take on a snapping turtle must be nuts.
Those fuckers are evil, I remember asking the animal control guy if it was rabid or something, and he said "No, I don't think so, they pretty much all act like this."
Doc Faustus
03-17-2008, 10:28 AM
I'm a little disappointed that this is about raccoons. I thought there was news of a People Under the Stairs sequel.
Papillon Noir
03-17-2008, 11:25 AM
My dad had a raccoon as a pet when he was a kid. They found it injured and in the wild and nursed it back to health and then kept it for awhile before releasing it. They never had any problems with it.
I think if you find one injured or as a baby you can tame it, but as for one in the wild. A wild animal is a wild animal, and you don't know what they're going to do.
Elvis_Christ
03-17-2008, 04:35 PM
I'm having a feud with some mice at my pad at the moment.
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Psycom5k
03-17-2008, 06:36 PM
I'm having a feud with some mice at my pad at the moment.
http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/andrew/5_apr07/Speedy_Gonzales.jpg
man.... I'm sorry to hear that, not only are they mice... but they are mexican too. My prayers go out to you...
_____V_____
03-17-2008, 06:45 PM
I'm a little disappointed that this is about raccoons. I thought there was news of a People Under the Stairs sequel.
Well, it is kind of...only its called The Raccoons Under The Stairs.
TaylorJ
03-18-2008, 12:49 PM
in my old apartment there was this raccoon who would just sit on the fire escape out my window and stare at me for 5 minutes, then leave, then come stare at me again, then leave, and so on. such weird creatures.
angrymob
03-19-2008, 05:32 AM
in my old apartment there was this raccoon who would just sit on the fire escape out my window and stare at me for 5 minutes, then leave, then come stare at me again, then leave, and so on. such weird creatures.
Of course you realize..You're the weird one.:D
illdojo
03-19-2008, 05:40 AM
man.... I'm sorry to hear that, not only are they mice... but they are mexican too. My prayers go out to you...
WOW, that's not racist at all. :rolleyes: