Thread: raccoons on the roof

"Janet Bostwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..

> In my community it is illegal to poison or shoot wildlife.
> Janet US


what about rabid Republicans?

"Gary" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
> Somebody wrote:
>>
>> They may look cute, but they do not belong on my roof. Anyone have
>> recipes
>> for cute raccoon stew?
>>
>> The one day, there was one lying in my gutter. It looked over at me,
>> then
>> put it's head down-- and went back to sleep... I heard if you play talk
>> radio they get annoyed by that. I'm trying NPR and seems to be working.
>> Not sure about them, but I know it's annoying me.
>
> I'd leave if you played that too. Leave the cute raccoon alone.
>
> G.


I just checked and do not see any evidence of it... I don't think it likes
NPR.

"Gary" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
>> Raccoons are not good to eat.
>
> Wanna bet? I'm in da south and they taste just as good as any other road
> or
> attic kill.
>
> G.


better than Soylent Green?

"Gary" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..

>> And how the hell did they get up on the roof?
>
> I have one that lives on or nearby my building. She (an albino) can walk
> straight up my brick walls....I've seen her do it. Two years ago, her
> small
> baby fell off the roof early one morning. She climbed straight down the
> brick, got her baby to climb back up and she followed right behind,
> supervising the baby's climb.
>
> G.


The squirrels around here do that too.

I'm disturbed that the raccoons live in sewers. I fear they will turn into
some mutant nemesis of Batman.

On 9/19/2012 5:43 AM, Somebody wrote:

>
> And how the hell did they get up on the roof? I have seen them around the
> neighborhood. Climbing in out of sewer grates (aka catch basins). My
> brother in SF says they are in the sewers out there too.
>

They are in our storm sewers in suburban Denver also.

They climb all over our roof getting access via grape vines, ivy, or
silver lace vines. They are good climbers and very agile. They recline
on the beams over the patio and stuff themselves with half-ripe Concord
grapes. We've had three and four of them at a time.

A few years ago we had to call animal control because there was one at
the back of the yard who wasn't moving. Canine distemper was the
diagnosis and they urged me to call all the neighbors who have dogs and
urge that the dogs be vaccinated if they weren't already.

gloria p

"gloria p" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:k3dolj$v53$[email protected]..

> They are in our storm sewers in suburban Denver also.
>
> They climb all over our roof getting access via grape vines, ivy, or
> silver lace vines. They are good climbers and very agile. They recline
> on the beams over the patio and stuff themselves with half-ripe Concord
> grapes. We've had three and four of them at a time.
>
> A few years ago we had to call animal control because there was one at the
> back of the yard who wasn't moving. Canine distemper was the diagnosis
> and they urged me to call all the neighbors who have dogs and urge that
> the dogs be vaccinated if they weren't already.
>
> gloria p


I don't want them clawing through my attic wall... They can sun themselves
in the gutter all they want. But I draw the line if they start destroying
the house, and pooping all over the place other than in the toilet.... My
ex said the neighbors told her the previous owner awoke one morning and
there was one sitting on her kitchen table!

So is there a network of them in storm sewers throughout the US... Boston,
Seattle, Tallahassee please report in... If they are throughout the sewers
of America, then this is something Obama needs to take care of in the second
term. Maybe he can send in Biden, or Hillary. Biden or Hillary will scare
the beejebus out of them. And they will all move to Canada.

Somebody <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Gary" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> Somebody wrote:
>>>
>>> They may look cute, but they do not belong on my roof. Anyone have
>>> recipes
>>> for cute raccoon stew?
>>>
>>> The one day, there was one lying in my gutter. It looked over at
>>> me, then
>>> put it's head down-- and went back to sleep... I heard if you play
>>> talk radio they get annoyed by that. I'm trying NPR and seems to
>>> be working. Not sure about them, but I know it's annoying me.
>>
>> I'd leave if you played that too. Leave the cute raccoon alone.
>>
>> G.
>
>
> I just checked and do not see any evidence of it... I don't think it
> likes NPR.

More likely, it left because you smell like rotted skunk carcass. It moved
on to a nice restaurant dumpster, which smells like a field of jasmine
compared to your foul ass. I'd suggest you bathe, but the runoff would be
toxic to innocent animals.

On 9/19/2012 8:40 PM, gloria p wrote:

> A few years ago we had to call animal control because there was one at
> the back of the yard who wasn't moving. Canine distemper was the
> diagnosis and they urged me to call all the neighbors who have dogs and
> urge that the dogs be vaccinated if they weren't already.

I wasn't aware that raccoons can get dog distemper. I thought that the
strain of distemper in raccoons is the same strain that infects cats, so
if there are raccoons around, cats should definitely be vaccinated.

I just looked it up and for sure, raccoons can have canine distemper in
addition to cat distemper (feline panleukopenia).

http://wildlifehaven.tripod.com/viral.htm

On 9/19/2012 4:24 PM, Sqwertz wrote:

>
> ObFood: Parmesan-garlic sauced crispy fried chicken wings for dinner
> tonight. Question is - what is the source of the Parmesan? Only time
> will tell...

For dinner, I only had some mac and cheese I made up for lunch and had
leftover. I took a meatloaf (uncooked) out of the freezer to cook
tonight but it'll have to be for tomorrow. The mac and cheese was
really good for a change! just a white sauce with more butter than
flour, which seemed to make it better, whereas I used to use same ratio
to make the bechamel sauce. Added what was left of my milk and subbed
in some half and half to make up the rest. I used a little swiss,
american, cheddar and parm cheese.

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:24:29 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> ObFood: Parmesan-garlic sauced crispy fried chicken wings for dinner
> tonight. Question is - what is the source of the Parmesan? Only time
> will tell...

Lousy pictures taken indoors, but they were divine. I used Peckerino
Romano cheese (imported, of course):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwertz...n/photostream/

Sauce was butter, garlic, salt, and then sprinkled with the cheese and
tossed to coat. With squiggly fries.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwertz...in/photostream

-sw