Chips for the Horde

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FREMDFIRMA

Monday, February 10, 2014 2:43 AM

Yes, they're adorable, but just so ya know, encouraging them is a bad idea...
But yeah, Raccoons do this, they learn quick how to get what they want out of humans, who are total suckers, mostly.
FYI, they make lousy pets cause they get into EVERYTHING, are quite difficult to housetrain, have a tendancy to bite, chew on things, and most vets wouldn't touch em with a ten foot pole.

What really makes em a pain in the arse is that they communicate and cooperate, often to bizarre degrees, even with other animals, not to mention they're very smart, like monkey smart, pretty damn tough, and can survive on damn near anything.
You'll note they even have some sort of protocol established to split the "loot" amongst themselves even in this vid, thus ensuring maximum survival.

-F

CHRISISALL

Monday, February 10, 2014 2:50 AM

I see lots of shots in the stomach waiting to happen.;)

AURAPTOR

Monday, February 10, 2014 3:03 AM

Two remarks -

If you offer free hand outs, of just about ANYTHING, you'll get more and more takers.

Doritos are like crack. To humans AND Raccoons.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, February 10, 2014 4:31 AM

Very cool video. Hard to imagine so many racoons in the same place. Once in a while I see a lone racoon on my property, but never in groups like that.

OONJERAH

Monday, February 10, 2014 7:00 AM

County Tracker & Animal Control guy to Oonj re Raccoons:

If you feed your pets outside, bring the food inside before dark.
( OtoH, the video Guy sure got a herd of 'em to come out in daylight! )
Raccoons are strong enough to bend our big no kill traps.
They are stronger than dogs twice their size & will take one out.
Don't try to make pets of them.
If we have to trap one on your property, we will euthanize it,
because there're are no more places to relocate them.

====================== :>
All I suggest is a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon

AURAPTOR

Monday, February 10, 2014 7:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Very cool video. Hard to imagine so many racoons in the same place. Once in a while I see a lone racoon on my property, but never in groups like that .

Feed 'em Doritos.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

GEEZER

Monday, February 10, 2014 8:00 AM

I'm really puzzled as to where there would be that many raccoons in one place. Unless folks are feeding them continuously, doesn't seem like there'd be enough natural forage or garbage for that number to show up at one time.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, February 10, 2014 8:25 AM

It's really not good to feed wild animals end of story, let alone garbage like doritos. Then again, its not so good to feed doritos to humans either...

My neighbours feed the cockatoos and they become a noisy, messy menace. And they eat my lemon tree.

WISHIMAY

Monday, February 10, 2014 8:52 AM

I used to have a birdfeeder for the spatzies when we first moved in and they started systematically removing facia. They made nests in everything, and by the following Spring I woke up to find our backyard just black, cars and roof covered in poo and they stayed for a month. I no longer feed the spatzies and keep a small bag of fire crackers by the door (of course it's not to scare off the migrating birds, I'm just a fan of randomly alerting my neighbors to my presence by means of small explosive devices)

Leave the undomesticated animals alone whenever possible. They were here long before us, and I'm sure they would wish us still NOT here if they could.

Those raccoons need a cull, though. Far too many for a healthy population. And the idiot feeding them needs to be smacked.

AURAPTOR

Monday, February 10, 2014 8:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
It's really not good to feed wild animals end of story, let alone garbage like doritos. Then again, its not so good to feed doritos to humans either...

My neighbours feed the cockatoos and they become a noisy, messy menace. And they eat my lemon tree.

I can't be the only want who wants to slap that idiot upside the head for feeding wild animals like that. He's only making matters worse for the critters and humans, not to mention children and pets too. Oh sure, raccoon are use to feeding off of our throw away food. But this is making matters all that much worse. There had to be 50 of those little guys, coming out of the woods. I've never seen so many raccoons at one time. The more ya feed 'em , the less afraid they'll be of interacting w/ people, and when a person doesn't have any food, one hungry raccoon might get fussy and bitey. How cute and adorable will they be then ?

In FL , it's illegal to feed gators for very much the same reason. Soon they'll associate people with free food. Only gator bites are a bit more impressionable.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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