That scab finally healed.

[Geoff C.]

[Clem Z.]

hey dr doolittle

i have a very large coon in my live trap that i caught tonight. he has been stealing my feed i put out for the birds. he even climed up a pole to get the suet. mrs clem just ask me if he will get too cold out there tonight in the trap. what is your valued opinion? should i bring him into the house or just take out an electric blanket?

[Donald M.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

Clem, you should "take him out" alright, but not with an electric blanket!

[Clem Z.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

in the morning i wil haul him a couple of miles out of town and turn him loose. i do that with all the critters i trap except the skunks and they get to meet the exhaust pipe on my truck up close and personal.

[Mike M.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

Clem; coon in crockpot better than beef on barbeque, pig in pit, gopher on grill and so on. shoot the critter and have the little misses drag out the crockpot. mike

[Bill W.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

I have a red bone coon hound that would to meet mr coon !Bill

[Clem Z.]

mrs clem won out

i moved the trap up next to the house so he would stay warm. she is kind to dumb animals,i guess that why she married me. we just saw another one so i guess there may be a family of coons. we have them at our place in the PA mountains and they love mashmellows we found out. that is what i used for trap bait.

[Bill W.]

Re: mrs clem won out

I had a friend who had pet coons ,they loved fruit loops .

[Brian McHale]

Re: hey dr doolittle

Jimmy a Corvette owner cracked corn, and I don't care.

[Jack W.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

Clem - Been there, done that, I was quite proud last spring when I caught the big ol coon that had taken to living under an addition to my house, where my mother in law had been sleeping and complaining of scratching noises all night long. (Turned out she wasn't as nuts as I thought). Relocated that big ol coon (it was not pleased with me) and thought I had solved everything. Wrong! Twas a big ol MOMMY coon, and I learned the next night that the scratching noises were not going to stop, lotsa little ones with no mommy scrathin around under there now. Called the nature center, etc, and learned it is actually against the law to relocate a raccoon (a friend of mine had done so, I said!) as they are a "rabies-vectored animal" etc. But really, the biggest reason not to do so was already known to me, the babies. Not that I am as sappy as Mrs. Jack or Mrs. Clem, my fear was they would die under there and stink up the joint (ok, once I saw them I did feel a little kindness for them). Had to locate a "raccoon rescue" person to raise em proper, then had to lure out the little ones and hand them over to her - took a few nights of diligent calling (think of making a "brrr" noise really loud). This is the short version of the story . . .

[Loren L.]

Extension cord & Mrs. Clem's hair dryer.... *NM*

[Rich G.]

Re: hey dr doolittle

"I learned it's against the law to relocate a racoon"...Now for the height of lunacy, I was in a Jury pool in FEDERAL court where some guy was suing a peace office for violating his civil rights when they got into a "scuffle" as the guy was dropping off his racoon.

Sometimes I wonder....

Rich Giannotti

[Clem Z.]

trouble maker. *NM*