south slopies - racoon watch

Thanks so much, Caseopele. I believe you'd do the same thing. One thing I need to say (and should have mentioned in the last post) is you should never attend any injured animal you don't know unless you are really, really familiar with animals and trained in treating them. I realized after I posted that this is something that you have to be so careful about. Even your own animal when injured may accidentally snap out of sheer panic. And with wild babies you have to be certain the Mama isn't around or that could be a whole different situation.
But you should always try to help only because everything deserves a chance and a kind touch.

Subject: Raccons? What noise do they make?

I'm on Garfield, bet. 8th Ave and PPW, south side of the street with back yards adjacent to those on 1st St.
This morning, a little after 6, I heard a terrific racket that sounded like 50 birds fighting. As I have a deck and my cats hang out there, I got up to see if they'd caught a bird.
Instead, I saw a raccoon shimmying over the railing of the deck next door, on an even higher floor than mine is - I think it would be the 3rd floor - about 40 ft off the ground. By time I got word to the people whose deck it was, it had apparently left.
But while it was there, it kept up a screech/squeal at high decibels. I remember when somebody in my building was trapping baby squirrels and it sounded like the plaintive sound they made. But this was no baby - it was a big animal, fully 20lbs.
Is that a normal sound? Was it communicating to its little friends? I couldn't figure out whether it thought itself trapped inside the fence, or whether this was just the normal sounds of a raccoon on the prowl.

I saw a raccoon around 7th Street carrying a dead, adult (8 lbs or larger)cat in his mouth.

Nasty buggers.

I walked into my backyard the other day to find three hugely fat racoons a few feet away without an ounce of fear on their part. On my part, I was completely freaked and scared..mostly for my poor kitty who just stood there agast at these funny looking cats that was taking over his porch.

Ive lived here 20 years and this is the first time Ive seen a racoon anywhere near this close and brazen. Are they multiplying faster or have i just been missing the racoon party for the past decades?

Veets - 19th between 10th & 11th is Bishop Ford High School. There are no houses on that block. What abandoned house?

I would assume that Greenwood has a population of racoons along with the population of cute rabbits Ive seen.

Don't let your cat out! If they gets into a scuffle with a raccoon they probably won't win.

Subject: raccoon in brooklyn, ft green

Just happened on S.Portland Ave.! A raccoon just popped it's head in our cat door while we were eating dinner. He saw me noticing him and still pushed the door with his/her paw and ran off. While i was grabbing my camera my friend saw him from the side, approx 3 ft from nose to tail. First instinct was to make a report to the city but after reading your site I'd rather see this one continue in the brooklyn "wildlife" than euthanized.