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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: country bob who wrote (104689)	7/19/2005 11:40:14 AM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Yes I do understand that but our home is 65 years old and has metal casement windows that were painted shut years ago. The only openings we have are doors. My husband felt badly about all this, but the raccoon jumped at him snarling with a lot of teeth showing and being as big as he was could have inflicted a lot of physical damage to him personally. The raccoon was backed into a closed area and he felt threatened also and actually did what was natural for him to do...attack. I talked with a Vet this morning about this and told him the raccoon now in the attic was pulling insulation up and he said he thought it might be a female looking to make a nest for her babies and we could possibly call someone to come remove her and release her back into the environment and hope she did not try to gain entrance to our home again or let her have her babies and take the chance our attic would be invaded again and again. I have some valuable antiques up there that I am saving for my children when they have room for them and I do not want them damaged, therefore I will be trying to find someone to come remove her humanely and rid us of this problem. Our home is already known as a haven for stray cats or injured cats, dogs, birds, turtles and even a red fox and we care for them, release them when well or try to find their owners, or find them homes, if we possibly can. Sometimes a person has to do what he has to do to protect himself, and his own home from predators. The Vet told me that when male raccoons mature they can be very vicious. Need I say more? I commend you for your protection of these creatures, but if I lived in your neighborhood with small children, I would be alarmed to have the wild ones close to my home. They can carry so many diseases and when people take care of their needs, they lose their instinct to search for food in their natural way and if something happens to you they will linger and die of starvation. Either way it is sad.