Those Pesky Masked Bandits!

[Grumpy4]

Originally Posted by Ponine

Hooray for racoons!!!!! Boo that they have made a home under your home....

There is no hooray for racoons! We have had a serious problem with them for the last 5 months!! They have decided that our roof is the Disneyland of the night! I can't begin to tell you how many times they have woken me up between the hours or 1 and 6 in the morning!! They run and jump with each other all over the roof. We have an aluminum awning over our backyard and they jump on that (and that's loud! It's loud when it rains, think how loud it is when a racoon jumps on it) and hide between the eaves and the awning. We have had to keep our fence open so the whole world can see into our side yard(that's how the cross over).

Oh, and I'm not quite done yet...when I came home the day we were leaving for New Mexico for 10 days, I noticed huge black markings up the posts in front of the house...they had made a whole in a vent and were getting in there! There are muddy black marks along the beam as well as the 2 posts! We had to leave, but my mom's boyfriend came over and checked in the attic=nothing, but there were sign that they had been in there. Little grooves in the insulation. He nailed a huge piece of wood to block it and we haven't seen or, more importantly, heard them in a while. You can tell they tried to take the piece of wood out because their little paw prints are on it!

So, no hooray for racoons. I used to think the same thing, but now all I want to do is camp out in the backyard and take pop shots at them!! Sorry animal lovers, but they gotta go now! Animal control can't come and get them until they are in the house.

NA, I hate to say it, but they will keep coming back and as cute as they are now, you will soon hate them. They are smart and creatures of habit!

Ok, I'm done now...I now return you to your regular programming!