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sterling2000 · August 2006

So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

qtrain · August 2006

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sterling2000 wrote: So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

When I lived in Oakland, late at night, I would sometimes see a whole family of racoons crawl out of the storm drain in front of my place. It was fascinating, but I was always a twitch away from running like hell.

jaha127 · August 2006

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sterling2000 wrote: So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

I was walking down Park Place the other night towards Vanderbilt and I saw the racoon climbing down a tree... freaked me out...

brookfetish · August 2006

There is a one-eyed trouser snake running around my apartment.

lox · August 2006

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sterling2000 wrote: So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

The first time I saw it freaked the hell out me out because it was so scraggly and thinner looking than country racoons that I thought it was a lemur. It sometimes hangs around behind Love Liquors and chows on the food left for the stray cats.

qtrain · August 2006

Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia

sterling2000 · August 2006

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Lox wrote: [quote=sterling2000]So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

The first time I saw it freaked the hell out me out because it was so scraggly and thinner looking than country racoons that I thought it was a lemur. It sometimes hangs around behind Love Liquors and chows on the food left for the stray cats.

Oh, this was a big fat country-style coon...

vanilla · August 2006

the raccoons like to stare in my window and come when called. eeek! so cute, though.

idlewild · August 2006

I guess Greenwood cemetery and Gateway became to blase for the critters. I'm also guessing I should keep my cats inside and forget about using my screen door.

brooklynpotter · August 2006

i recently read (times? gothamist? don't remember) that there are tons and tons of them in prospect park, and that one of the vets whose practice is across from the park doesn't think you should walk with your pets on that side of the street at night.

i love how they walk in a line in families, and how they all climb up the same tree and sit in the Y of it. i pray they are not rabid, and would be much happier if they were the ones running down my street instead of the lighting-fast gross rats.

armchair_warrior · August 2006

hey nothing wrong with rats, they are natural part of the city wild life. without them and flying rats the city would be just full of paper birds(aka flying trash :P)

brooklynpotter · August 2006

armchair_warrior wrote: hey nothing wrong with rats, they are natural part of the city wild life. without them and flying rats the city would be just full of paper birds(aka flying trash :P)

i believe there are more rats in the city now than there were 5 years ago. i study came out last year, something like 41% more rats since bloomburg came into office. we had a whole rat issue on our street last winter; one of the buildings had a huge rat population and garbage everywhere and the landlord refused to do anything--and the city did, of course, nothing.

a whole group of coop boards got together and pitched in for some rat control, and i have to say things are better. literally, the garbage bags put out for DPW were moving on their own, and lots of squeaking. ick

armchair_warrior · August 2006

you rat muderer!!!!

/goes and feeds more rats

my little pretties you shall inherit the earth some day.

brooklynpotter · August 2006

armchair_warrior wrote: you rat muderer!!!!

/goes and feeds more rats

my little pretties you shall inherit the earth some day.

you have a sickness, my friend

armchair_warrior · August 2006

brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]you rat muderer!!!!

/goes and feeds more rats

my little pretties you shall inherit the earth some day.

you have a sickness, my friend :-s

/ na me just bored. just trying to create drama a bit blah. i hate rats too.

jaha127 · August 2006

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sterling2000 wrote: [quote=Lox][quote=sterling2000]So I'm sitting on my stoop around midnight last night and up runs what I think is a cat. Turns out, it's a racoon just trucking through and almost runs over my feet.

The first time I saw it freaked the hell out me out because it was so scraggly and thinner looking than country racoons that I thought it was a lemur. It sometimes hangs around behind Love Liquors and chows on the food left for the stray cats.

Oh, this was a big fat country-style coon...

we must of saw the same one... cause the one I saw was huge!!

sterling2000 · August 2006

brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]hey nothing wrong with rats, they are natural part of the city wild life. without them and flying rats the city would be just full of paper birds(aka flying trash :P)

i believe there are more rats in the city now than there were 5 years ago. i study came out last year, something like 41% more rats since bloomburg came into office. we had a whole rat issue on our street last winter; one of the buildings had a huge rat population and garbage everywhere and the landlord refused to do anything--and the city did, of course, nothing.

a whole group of coop boards got together and pitched in for some rat control, and i have to say things are better. literally, the garbage bags put out for DPW were moving on their own, and lots of squeaking. ick

If you're into rats and NYC, you need to read this book...it's a real fun read:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582344779/sr=8-1/qid=1156517422/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8631299-5656005?ie=UTF8[/url]

brooklynpotter · August 2006

def. not into rats. they don't freak me out unless they're really close to my feet.

we had mice last year and my next-door neighbor went nuts; i'm fine with mice.

roaches, on the other hand, make me want to hermetically seal my apartment. (i have already done half of my kitchen with caulking and spray-foam.)

carnivore · August 2006

brooklynpotter wrote: roaches, on the other hand, make me want to hermetically seal my apartment. (i have already done half of my kitchen with caulking and spray-foam.)

It's all or none. You've got to do the whole thing or you might as well not bother.

brooklynpotter · August 2006

Carnivore wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]roaches, on the other hand, make me want to hermetically seal my apartment. (i have already done half of my kitchen with caulking and spray-foam.)

It's all or none. You've got to do the whole thing or you might as well not bother.

agreed, just have to find the time to do the rest. trust me, it's going to be happening.

brooklynpotter · August 2006

and take a look at this:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-08-22-psycho-raccoons_x.htm?csp=34

bigguy · August 2006

I read that rat book. I though it was OK, but he didn't really know anything about them - just a guy wanting to write a book about something weird. I would rather have read a book by a hard-bitten 20-year veteran of NYC pest control or something. But the alley he used to observe the rats is right next to one of our clients on Fulton st. I walked through it and saw - a dead rat.

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