Raccoon ate my window!

veets

modsquad wrote: [quote=veets]We looked up and this raccoon was hanging upside down looking in at us through the sliding doors. Dinner must have looked good to him.

Open at your own risk.
http://modblog.bmezine.com/wp-content/uploads/200701081408-pix2.jpg
Yup... That is about how he looked.. only furrier!

veets

eggcream wrote: [quote=filmlover44]I don't know about raccoons but I know that if you play a radio around skunks, they will leave. I actually tested this once and it worked.

Barry Manilow.

Well I would certainly leave!

brooklynpotter

voodoo, i wasn't saying this was a bad thing. (i mean, i wish they didn't have to be euthanized. but i also wish i could play with them. neither are possible options). you did what you had to do.

voodoonyc

brooklynpotter wrote: voodoo, i wasn't saying this was a bad thing. (i mean, i wish they didn't have to be euthanized. but i also wish i could play with them. neither are possible options). you did what you had to do.

potter, I never want to know that an animal is being euthanized and probably would have tried to find another solution had I known. But these were big fuckers who had taken over my deck. I tried to shoo them away and they laughed at me. And ate every plant on my deck, the better part of my hose and a healthy portion of my table umbrella.

josenynews

i guess I'm the only one who thinks it's amusing that this thread and the meryl streep thread are right next to each other.

i'll say it again:

the dingo ate my bay-bee!

(no, I'm not drinking)

voodoonyc

Flexichick wrote: i guess I'm the only one who thinks it's amusing that this thread and the meryl streep thread are right next to each other.

i'll say it again:

the dingo ate my bay-bee!

(no, I'm not drinking)

What's really embarrassing is that both Mougar and I have admitted that we both own every episode of Buffy which features The Dingo Ate My Baby (a/k/a Seven Mary Three).

danielle123

I live in Carroll Gardens and last Summer for a few weeks we were all on racoon watch. A raccoon broke into 2 - count 'em - 2 apartments, neither of them on the first floor (so, apparently, they climb fire escapes). One of the people took a photo and that thing was HUGE (with lovely camera "red eye" making him even scarier looking)!

Anyway, I woke up one morning to find that my kitchen screen had been cut (or so I thought) and freaked out thinking I could have been murdered by some nut in my sleep. I called the cops, they came over and we figured out that it was probably a racoon because you could see the shape of the body in the screen as it had tried to squeeze through (probably too fat to squeeze through from eating kitties).

I'm not sure which was scarier - that a person might have broken in (probably would have just taken my laptop) or a racoon (could have given me rabies).

voodoonyc

danielle123 wrote: I live in Carroll Gardens and last Summer for a few weeks we were all on racoon watch. A raccoon broke into 2 - count 'em - 2 apartments, neither of them on the first floor (so, apparently, they climb fire escapes). One of the people took a photo and that thing was HUGE (with lovely camera "red eye" making him even scarier looking)!

Anyway, I woke up one morning to find that my kitchen screen had been cut (or so I thought) and freaked out thinking I could have been murdered by some nut in my sleep. I called the cops, they came over and we figured out that it was probably a racoon because you could see the shape of the body in the screen as it had tried to squeeze through (probably too fat to squeeze through from eating kitties).

I'm not sure which was scarier - that a person might have broken in (probably would have just taken my laptop) or a racoon (could have given me rabies).

Those SO could have been my coons! Last summer? Very very likely. I have photos somewhere. Will track down and post.

obamanut

modsquad wrote: [quote=veets]We looked up and this raccoon was hanging upside down looking in at us through the sliding doors. Dinner must have looked good to him.

Open at your own risk.
http://modblog.bmezine.com/wp-content/uploads/200701081408-pix2.jpg

That is exactly the kind of stuff I imagine nuevo-Slopers doing in their brownstones, along with S&M dungeons, etc. Seriously.

seltzeristhebest

A few years ago a raccoon in our backyard one night did some SERIOUS damage to our dog, a Lab/Chow cross who was taking her nocturnal pee and usually can take care of herself.

The raccoon latched on and probably would have killed her if an alert neighbor hadn't thrown something from the second story window. All the layers of skin from her chest to belly were ripped open -- if not for emergency vet surgery she probably would have died.

Moral of the story: a raccoon doesn't have to be rabid to be one tough street fighter.

opossumqueen

Thanks to huge efforts like vaccinating our pets, rabies isn't too common in the US these days.

Most rabid raccoons don't display aggression. They come down out of hiding during the day, which itself is odd, and are really disoriented and kind of look drunk. My experience with aggressive rabid raccoons (this was not in NY, but an area that was having an outbreak of rabies in raccoons and foxes) was scary. The critter actually came charging at me from about 40 feet and was actively trying to attack me (luckily on a bike). A rabid fox in the area had done this to child and actually managed to bite him.

Maybe the raccoons here are like the squirrels--very used to people and not as easily spooked.

Just be careful folks. They are wild animals.

brooklynpotter

who was it that was talking about a racoon who came in through their back door during dinner and nabbed a chicken off the table? i think that was on the board a few years back.

veets

Obamanut wrote: [quote=modsquad][quote=veets]We looked up and this raccoon was hanging upside down looking in at us through the sliding doors. Dinner must have looked good to him.

Open at your own risk.
http://modblog.bmezine.com/wp-content/uploads/200701081408-pix2.jpg

That is exactly the kind of stuff I imagine nuevo-Slopers doing in their brownstones, along with S&M dungeons, etc. Seriously.

Obamanut.. I don't take you "seriously."

anastasiab

I'm wondering why I've lived here 12 years and I don't know anybody who has heard of or been to these dungeons. I'm disappointed in myself (and my friends)

brooklynpotter

i've yet to see a raccoon here

kkgillen

brooklynpotter wrote: i've yet to see a raccoon here

I saw one running down 11th Ave one night last summer. Scared the crap out of me.

brooklynpotter

i always see them when i go visit my mom in new jersey. we sit out on the deck and they walk by with their little families

booklaw

Flexi, who was running down 11th Ave... you, or the raccoon? Was it wearing a sweatband and an ipod on its arm?

Sheeit, maybe they're even smarter than I realized!

dw438

Was the raccoon named Ralph or was it Norton? Both known to eat a lot.

psychikos.com

booklaw wrote: Flexi, who was running down 11th Ave... you, or the raccoon? Was it wearing a sweatband and an ipod on its arm?

Sheeit, maybe they're even smarter than I realized!

I haven't owned a sweatband in almost 30 years, so I'm guessing it was a raccoon

lnelson

A raccoon broke into my apartment when I was living in Westchester. Presumably, he climbed a tree and came over the roof and down the fire escape. Fire escape was accessible from kitchen. He shouldered his way through the screen, ran across the counter, and broke into the Pop Tarts. The Westchester cops laughed at us, and there's no animal control, so my husband had to prod him out the window with a broom.

Pawprints all over the counter the next morning, and 4 pop tarts ruined!

brooklynpotter

flexi, you never seem them in your garden?

carry on

brooklynpotter wrote: flexi, you never seem them in your garden?

the first day I moved in, I thought I saw one in the daytime on my fence. Turns out it was just one of my visiting neighbor cats (I call him Floofy).

brooklynpotter

ah, the floofy cat

youngerbrooklynianjew11223

I remember being around 20 years old with my ex-boyfriend at a house in the catskills. We saw the raccoons running across the yard and decided to put a large bowl of food out there (I forgot what we were eating). They started coming closer and flipped the bowl over and then wanted more. I ran inside and my boyfriend laughed at me. That is until they moved even closer, and he high-tailed it back inside too (and yes, I laughed at him).

bohuma

I had a discussion with my vet about rabies last year. He said that while it is unusual for rats and mice to have rabies, bats are known carriers. He had one client who refused to have his cat vaccinated, then one night a bat flew into his apartment and the cat was playing with it. The city/state/federal government put the cat into quarantine for six months, because the guy said he'd pay. The usual treatment for the cat or dog in such cases is the administration of a lethal dose of barbiturates. The cat didn't end up with rabies fortunately. There are lots of bats in Prospect Park, so there is a very strong probability that they carry rabies, if one gets sick and is eaten by a raccoon, the raccoon will get it too. So be careful of raccoons or bats doing unusual things. Get your pets vaccinated, and if you get bitten by a raccoon go to the emergency room without delay, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

spidora xplora

kosher dave, I had the same problem at my apartment (top floor of a brownstone, but my windows look out onto my neighbors rooftop, i.e. their building is one flight less). the last incident (last fall), my cat was freaked out at the window (and yet, mesmerized) by a gigantic raccoon which was not afraid of any attempts to shoo it away. luckily I have a gated, screened window & the window was only open about 6 inches, the screen shut, the gate closed. while I fully recognize that the scent of slow-simmering bolognese sauce wafting through my apartment may have contributed greatly towards this situation, I was scared to wake up the next day to a window screen ripped halfway out of the frame & chewed up/shredded along the bottom (little bits of metal were on my neighbors roof)...but at least the gate kept it from getting in. my landlord hired an animal control guy, who set catch & release traps, but they didn't work (raccoons are savvy), and it was still showing up by the windows at night. he then purchased a coyote urine spray (no chemicals, just pee...and reeks like you would not believe) and sprayed it nearby (but not on) the windows, along our building wall (a tiny amount goes a long way). it seems to have worked so far, I haven't seen or heard any raccoons (you could hear them running across our buildings roof at night too) since then.

danielle123

OpossumQueen wrote: My experience with aggressive rabid raccoons (this was not in NY, but an area that was having an outbreak of rabies in raccoons and foxes) was scary. The critter actually came charging at me from about 40 feet and was actively trying to attack me (luckily on a bike).

Who knew raccoons could ride bicycles??!

bricktop

Well, if a man can hang by his dick like that, I bicycle-riding raccoons wouldn't shock me.

opossumqueen

danielle123 wrote: [quote=OpossumQueen]My experience with aggressive rabid raccoons (this was not in NY, but an area that was having an outbreak of rabies in raccoons and foxes) was scary. The critter actually came charging at me from about 40 feet and was actively trying to attack me (luckily on a bike).

Who knew raccoons could ride bicycles??!

It makes them all the scarier!