Racoons in the shop, or, This is the most disgusting thing I've ever done.

We always par boil them first. Oldwolf

 

let see you with a pic of momma or daddy , we will wait!!

 

cats are probably coming in to listen to NPR. Typical dems trying to get a free place to live. Next thing you know, the cats will expect free health insurance

 

We currently have one of the biggest Skunks I've seen in a long time hanging around so we have to leep all the doors closed. Our shop is in the country so we are used to all kinds of critters, but the skunk is a little to much. Sidenote: Good sized Bobcat ran across the road as I was returning from the morning bull session in town!

 

Yea back in the sixties i went every night during the season. Back in those days when you heard a dog bark treed you knew from the sound whose it was. Those day,s are long gone no place to hunt all the land is posted. I had a blue tick that would swallow small cats squirrls ect whole then come home and puke them up so she could eat at her leisure or feed to her pups. Those plott,s where bred for bear hunting they aint afeard of nuthing . Would like to own a dog like yours. All i have now is one beagle. OldWolf

 

there is nothing like a coon hunt with a good dawg, good friends and the moonshine at night...the moon light helps but you don't need it cause you're already lit, by God, I know exactly what you mean Bill BallingerSr. sounds like you got a good dawg too! I got get back home to the hills of WV this fall.

 

Pretty funny! I don't LIKE shooting critters (I don't hunt or fish and as I said the only two guns I own are the ones I had as boy), after all, they're just doing what they do, but when what they do wrecks what I do, all the "live and let live" philosphy goes out the door! I don't care if others love hunting, and I like game, I just don't have any interest in it as a pastime.

My brothers suburban Detroit (Westland) neighbor proudly showed him one Saturday morning a mole he had caught and nailed to a tree in the yard "...as a warning to the other ones!" He actually believed other moles would look up, see the little corpse and move on. Duh.

Raccoons seem to be intentionally destructive. The area they'd used most as a tiolet was parts I'd stored up there on the floor, ruining, among other things, the boot for one of our convertibles. Why, if they didn't give it some thought, with all the empty space up there between the rafters, did they pick a pile of my hot rod parts? The extra set of stainless trim for the '48 and others, hubcaps and other misc parts will wash off, but it is odd they picked my belongings to defecate upon.

 

So, lemme guess, you don't have an O'Bama (he's really Irish, you know) sticker on your car?

 

I'm voting for the guy with the good looking younger wife, the hot looking running mate, wars scars and inlaws that own a successful beer business.

 

Mmmmm, beer. Not to stray too far from the topic, which is already WAY off topic, but you're right, Sarah Palin IS better looking than Joe Biden.

 

way better lookin. While I was building my garage this white cat would come by and shit on the concrete. I tried and tried to shoo it off, but the day it came and took a shit while I was putting on the trusses I pulled the safety on the nail gun back and let it have it. I didn't see it again.

 

field mice - probably has something to do with me living next to a field - i now hate fields, but am taking great enjoyment in the many ways to kill a rat - sort of my own little 'faces of death' maybe ill start videotapin

 

am i the only one with a sick and twisted vision of nailin pailin (haha i rhymed) and tina fey at the same time in a milf/twins style debauch?

ok you guys brought me down to this level!

 

Didn't read the whole thread and maybe somnebody already posted this but Raccoons carry some pretty nasty diseases and they can be passed by coming in contact with their feces. Burn the clothes you were wearing or wash them in a STRONG disinfectant or bleach and scrub down anything else that came in contact with it.

 

On a camping trip my wife decided to feed a "cute" racoon. He was REALLY pissed when she ran out of treats. I finally chased him off but that night he came back. In the morning I noticed the windshield wipers were ripped off my truck and the antenna was broken off. I figured some kids did it. Then I looked inside the truck! It was covered in little muddy footprints, the dash was torn up, steering wheel, and rips in the seats and carpet. The window had been left open about 3-4" on the passenger (ie wife's side) of the truck. Damn racoons!

 

i was buying some firewood a few years back and when i drove up i noticed that somebody had gone crazy with a chainsaw and cut down every tree in sight. one of the brothers that was getting the wood loaded noticed my surprise and said his brother was tired of all the squirrels and coons so he cut down the trees because he was shooting coons one night out of the tree tops hits one 50' up and when the thing fell it bounced off a branch and ended up hitting the brother breaking his COLLERBONE! we sat there and laughed our asses off because by cutting the trees down they ended up in his garage.

 

Larry Flint has already made a Porn Flick called Nailin' Paylyn. Saw an article about it on AOL the other day.

 

Haha, thats great - guess Im on the same intellect level as Larry - well, Ive been compared to worse I spose

 

I had raccoons tear wood shake shingles off of my roof to get into my attic. Fortunatly the area had a high ceiling under it and they couldn't get to the attic. I understand they don't like loud noise, a guy I know had to play loud music to get rid of them in his attic. That may keep them away.

 

now thats funny!!!!!!!

 

Moth balls are gnarly. White vinegar is the shit for getting out stink. And it's natural. Hell, you can even drink it.

 

The one I recently let go was def. full size, but no pics. It's the same thing to be honest, at least with my experience. Out of the 3 species I mentioned, Coons are the more aggressive. Skunks are pretty passive animals though...

 

I was going for a foursome, Sarah, Tina, Amy and me.

 

Nah,Coons are really passive too,till you piss them off.

 

I had a real big coon that I fed. We called him Stinky cause he had obviously met a skunk at some point. The coon would come scratch at the door and then sit and wait. I,d open the door and give him a pile of peanuts and he waited until I closed the door to eat. When done he would scratch at the door and sit/wait for more. When I,d say all gone he would get up and leave. More polite than my kids for christ sake.....

 

I feel the same way. I hear poop. I think of Larry.

 

119 posts about cleaning up a shop....geez

 

This is one of many reasons why I want to build a shop that has no attic... I've alway really liked air craft hangars...

 

In the interest of getting this shitty thread (get it?) back on track, I will regail You boys with the story of the R.C.B.S. Express.

Rixrex on here was kind enough to bring us a 48 Caddy sedanette. when he brought it in, I noticed the floor had a pretty good layer of upholstery chunks, peices of the car, etc,etc in it. It took us a couple weeks to get to it, so it lived outside for a while. Summer time. WINDOWS UP.

It finally came time to "get to the gettin to" on the car. We pushed it inside the shop and got ready to clean it out.

At this exact moment, I wisely decided I would be "really, really busy" for at least 2 days.

after removing no less the 3 35 gallon trashcans full to the brim with Rat, Cat and Bat shit (along with a christmas trees worth of pine needles, 70's newspapers, what we assumed was some hairy bush porno, various critter corpses, and alot of stuff labeld as "various poot") The car received it's ominous Monkier...

The Rat,Cat,and Bat shit express. R.C.B.S. for short.

the chassis work and floor pan work is done, but these cars had scads of hidden nooks and crannies...It has been a year and 2 months since that fateful couple of days, and I STILL occasionally find some new and exciting form of excrement in the car from time to time. I assure You, even with the windows UP, If a critter wants into the car, HE WILL FIND A WAY.

 

Oh yea....YOUR one to talk about animal control now aren't you? Speaking of which, you ever get that chimney opening caged up or we gonna make the Great Squirrel Bake of '08 an annual event?

-Bigchief.