Racoons

[acatalina]

I pulled up my driveway and a racoon got in my garbage. It has big gumbands on them and it literally got the lid off.
Just what i wanted to do scoop up garbage in this heat.
Thank god i use my composter or it would have been awful stinky.
Can you believe that rascal got the lid off!!!!!
Sometimes i hate living in the woods...
Or, maybe it was the bear. I am guessing coon from the tears on the bags...
What a day!
Anne
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[endorphin_junkie]

Yuck, there's yet another great reason for composting!!

It's amazing what those little critters can get into!! I used to keep birdseed in a heavy duty plastic can and the coons wanted it bad, there are chew marks along the entire circumference of the lid but they never did get in. It's not just the critters that make a mess of garbage, I was running on a street ready for garbage pick up early one day last week and some jerks had opened about a dozen bags and tried to set them on fire! The racoons can't help the urge to forage, these idiots were just being brainless vandals!

Take Care
Laurie

 

[kathryn]

I once had a birdfeeder (wooden with a heavy rope handle) hanging from a tree that was on the ground one day. I had assumed a critter (maybe a squirrel) had chewed through the rope, but it was intact. Then, I figured out a raccoon must have taken it down. But, it was hanging from a MacGuyvered pully system, with the rope hooked on one of those closed hooks that you have to press in to open, and *I* had a hard time opening it. YOu would have to press in, then lift the feeder to get it off the hook. Wonder how long it took Einstein raccoon to figure that out?