My Family used to have two cats, one of which had coloring similar to a racoon, but we had never really thought about it before. She also had long hair, so she looked bigger than she actually was.
One night, my brother looks out the window and says "hey, there's Whiskers (yes, that was her name.. the other one we called Sushi), I'm gonna go get her." So he walks onto the porch, bends down and reaches out to grab her, and suddenly stands up and backs away. I go out and ask him "what's wrong?" and look as Whiskers.. but it wasn't whiskers.. it was a racoon eating their cat food.. and it seemed to have no problem with my brother attepmting to pick it up, because it just kept on eating the food!

Silly I know, but that;s my encounter.

bah! Look at that little guy..he's like chilling there knowing he's getting his picture taken...what an instigating pose...he is fated for destruction...

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This has happened to me on several occasions. My dad and brothers are serious hunters so they're always bringing home deer, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, if it's wildlife...it's been to my house. I just try to not watch while they're hanging it up and everything. I actually owned a squirrel a while back. We found the squirrel in a friend's shed. She had 3 little babies with her. She was injured so I brought her home. My dad built this huge cage for her to play in. Unfortunately my squirrels met their untimely demise when the neighbor's cat found out how to get into the cage. :(...it was not a good day for Allison. LOL. Being from the country...I've also had some pretty interesting run ins with domestic farm animals too!!! But I'll save those stories for another thread.

Allison

HA!
 

I agree with KABM, but I see a freezer in his future. Like was said earlier, you could then use it as a party favor, FREAK guests out by asking them to get some ice or something.

Last Night...
 

In south texas bugs are a part of life. I was walking out on my patio to make a phone call and I feel what I thought was a moth drop down on me, run(?) down my face, into my shirt. So I untuck my shirt and shake it loose, see it hit the ground and it was a huge COCKROACH!


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I am not really whacked out by them, but I knew I'd have half of you all FREAKING out by just telling the story.:eek:

Two raccoon stories
 

My parents have 2 garbage bins that are sunk into the ground with heavy steel lids... supposedly raccoon proof... but at least twice a week they would wake up to find garbage strewn all over the place. They figured it was the raccoons... one holding up the lid, another scrounging for food. Well, one morning they caught the thief... ONE raccoon, with one hind paw on the step-pedal, and two front paws digging through the garbage, and two little beady eyes staring up at my father as if to say "WTF are YOU doing interrupting my meal???" From then on the trash went out in the morning... like, say, when the garbage truck was pulling up. :)

Another story: This happened to my husband's grandparents. A raccoon took up residence in their attic and had some baby raccoons (cubs?). My husband's grandparents discovered that there were raccoons in their attic, and boarded up the attic fan and any other access they could find. Well, it turns out that Mama Raccoon had been out looking for food and had left the cubs behind. She actually tore a hole in their roof to get to her babies!! This time, they let her and her cubs leave before reshingling :)

Well, Well, Well...i've learned a lot about this thread so far...ppl don't mind if we poison racoons, but god forbid we hurt the squirrels...which i have to say would only be a preventive measure vs over-population. If someone can reply with a viable solution as to my dilemna - like i said, i'm not making this story up, it's an actual daily problem - I will take it under consideration.....while the jury is still out on the verdict, let me provide everyone with another anecdote.

This summer my buddies and I are playing golf on a beautiful summer afternoon. I should note that there is quite a bit of wildlife on this course. On different occassions dear and wolves (to give a couple examples) have been spotted by different golfers. Anyways...on the second hole i'm waiting for my buddy (who shanked his tee shot) to hit, while I stood ahead by a tree.
As we wait for the ppl ahead to move, i look back to notice a creature is jogging toward my buddy. Lo' and behold it's a coyote....(me yelling at my buddy) "hey whitey, whitey!"
"shutup i'm hitting,"...the jack#$& didn't even care that a somewhat dangerous creature strutted right past him....so now it's headed toward my direction, not sure what to do I back into a semi-defensive stance with my 4 iron in front of me. Closer, Closer, Closer he approaches until he's a few feet in front of me....then with a somewhat smug look, he takes my nicey hit tee shot into his mouth and runs off.

Iritated from mother nature's wrath that occurred a few holes earlier, I seek out revenge by betting my buddy a case of beer that he can't grab a Canada Goose and run with it for at least ten seconds. At this current hole, it's a short par three with a stream near the green. There's about 6 Canada Geese or so just shootin' the S%*^ with eachother - not caring about any of the golfers walking by.....

So my buddy creeps up on the closest one and scopes it into his arms. Now for those of you that haven't seen a can. goose up close, it is a very large bird that could definitely cause some damage. So as he has this thing wrapped around his arms, the whole time squaking and bitting his arms while the rest of them are nipping at his legs.
He's all 'argg, owww, you #$*^*$,"... meanwhile we're rolling around on the green laughing at this spectacle. The whole endeavor lasted maybe 5 seconds - the geese definitely kicked his #@% ...for the effort i bought a few rounds of beer later on that night.

Are you sure you're not making this up? if you were, that would immediately label you as a poopy head pedophile assclown jagoff moron. Don't make stuff up dude. Not funny.

hey....we be truckin'....

Yeah but pabst? It would be better if it was schlitz or strohs.

BTW rob, what did you do to remove the leech attached to your buddy's genitals...?

Dude, us midwesterners know that Stroh's is a great idea at the time (ie 10 bucks for 30), but the next morning it's not even worth eating. Seriously. Like a goose.

My memory is a little fuzzy . . . I either used my teeth, or ran away screaming all high-pitched like a little girl. One of those, definitely.

Come on K Sig, show a little class and put Rocky Mountain High Colorado Coor's on your beer wagon or add Buckhorn, the most frugal of college students beer to it! Oops, probably NO one knows Buckhorn!!!!!

God I hate wild life!!!!!! If they dont mess with me, I damn sure wont bother them!

I grew up hunting for food and after hunting people on the KCK PD I never went again! They dont carry guns so what is the sport of shooting a POOR unarmed Bambie?:D

PS, I am trying to be normal, scary isnt it?:p

ewww ewww ewww.....it's funny, because it's true....
moving along...

As the survey is tabulated, no one has come close to offset the sway of the vote much. As we all know, certain GC users hold greater status than others. The highest being BillyMac and lifesaver, so when both of these esteemed gentlemen favor for the elimination of our furry little freind... it's gonna take a whole lot of 'something' to sway the vote back in the opposite direction.

Tom, i understood your whole post ;) how fabulous! Rob may be upset about your "return to normalcy" - he thought your sense of humor was pure genius

Tom is just letting we mortals get a clue...

As for wildlife, there was quite a bit around where I went to school, but the biggest animals on campus were the Phi Delts.

Sorry.

I was driving home last night and almost hit a deer. I had to slam on the breaks to avoid it.

i hate those kamikaze deers....they have a bad day and then want to screw with us by playing chicken...as damasa would say...bah!

yes....those kind of deer..the kamikaze deer are not friends...they are out to get us..and they deserve a total...>BAH!

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My scariest encounter with wildlife had to be during my first month of school freshman year of high school. As I was walking to the bus stop, I realized that there was a cow walking down my street. The cow then proceeded to start walking towards me. At this point, I ran like hell towards my house, as the cow started to pick up steam and charge down my street. Now, besides the obvious question of why the hell there was a cow walking around my neighborhood, there was the problem that my homeroom teacher wouldn't buy it as an excuse of why i was late to homeroom....seriously.

Oh, and on the discussion of cheap beers - Meister Brau (spelling might be wrong) cans look like Budweiser cans, they're really cheap (I've seen them for as low as less than 10 bucks for a 30), but trust me, they are a BAD idea the next morning. Worst hangover ever. And trust me, I've drank some pretty cheap beer.

Next order of buisiness.......Finding Alf and bringing him back to us.
Hereis what he looks like:

http://www.tvshows.de/alf/images/pictures/alf06.jpg


We will find him and get his tv show put back on the air again.

It's on reruns up here in Canada :)

No way!!!!! You all can watch it and we can't? One more reason Canada is cool.

oh my goodness, I can't believe I have missed this thread. Cause I too have had a umm encounter with wildlife.
Last yr, during summer session it was late, I was walking back to my dorm room, but was a good five minutes or 10 minutes away, I Lived up hill and I was downhill. So on my journey, i heard a ruffle shuffle, and to my knowledge it was a squirel.Mind you I am not afraid of squirles, until they start persuing you. The squirel was running after me, I swear to goodness, and I did nothing to this squriel. SO anyway, I ran to the nearest opened building, which being my luck was Public Safety.I explained my story of mr. squirel chasing me, in which they made sure I was not under the influence, (which I wasn't, was just hanging at a friends house) so now every time I see a squirel I kinda quicken the pace a bit ya know what I am saying
(Good Thing I am a Fast runner, Track actually paid off)
DGPhoney~

Random Wildlife Stories
 

I don't have any super exciting encounters with Wildlife. But this thread reminded me of these giant crows we had on campus. We used to refer to them as the Mutant Crows because of their size. A small child could have sat on these things! We have no idea where they came from, but there were quite a few.

I have story that my little told me that goes with this thread. We work at the same copy place (although she teaches part time, too). It was my day off, so I'll have to tell her story:

First, our store is laid out so you walk in and there are self-serve copy machines and all that kind of stuff. Then you walk back to a counter where the full-serve area is, and then the offices. If you walk through the full-serve area, you go into the storage area and break room, and there's the back door.

Well, one sunny afternoon, one of the guys took some trash out back. He apparently had the door propped open because a BAT came flying in. Of course, it flew right up front where all the customers are at. All of the coworkers are just staring at this bat. I mean, who wants to touch the thing?

Apparently a couple of the customers started to kind of freak out and they were yelling at the staff "Aren't you going to catch it?" & stuff. And my little looks this one old lady right in the eye and deadpans. "I'm not touching it. Those things carry diseases.".

So, finally the assistant manager goes to call Animal Control, but the bat flew out of the store before they got there.

Not a great story, I know.

Ex - yep, there's gotta be something good about can. television, and alf reruns are it...yet to me, i see them as reliving life...so many memories....

DGPhoney - see, that just reiterates everything that i've been saying...squirrels are out to take over the world and must be taken out, whatever the cost.

Update on the situation:
the trash cans have remained in tact for the last few weeks - could be the product of either their hibernation for winter or our mission, which we turned into a brotherhood exercise.

So one time I was at the park with my friends with out dogs and this little blue jay lands on my shoulder. I felt like Snow White...until it moved to my head and wouldnt get off. I was flailing around and trying to get it off my head without hurting it. After like 5 minutes it finally flew away and thankfully without using the little birds room on me!

Good, glad you've kept them in line at least. The squirrels are out to take the world lol. They have knocked everything out of our trees.

I mean I think I'll have to agree Lil G, Because that was not my first "Bad Squirel " Experience, that was the first one i had to pretty much run for my life though, but Squirels are scarry I think they are out to get us :eek:
DGPhoney~

I think you are correct. :eek:

I would like to say first of all that I totally brake for animals to the point of putting myself and my passengers at peril sometimes!!!! I mean, I am the goofy chick who moves the worms that crawl onto my driveway when it rains so we won't run over them. In fact I saw some old bat hit a beautiful dog once and not stop, and I chased her down and made her pull over and forced her to go back.....(yeah I am a psycho)

Anyway, the black squirrels at Kent follow you. If you have food they will stalk you. I got followed all the way across campus one day. You can hand feed them and some of them will break into dorm rooms to eat. One of my friends had a squirrel who came over for cereal every day during the Price is Right....no lie. One of the profs built a special ladder and platform up to his window so the squirrels could come in and hang out.

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You wanna talk about scary wildlife stories, well let me tell ya, I have lots...Most are hilarious....

Since I live on a farm in the country, you tend to get the wierd stuff happening....Anyways I was like 6 years old. My mom, sister, and brother and I were coming home, as we pulled up in the driveway, we saw a dog in the driveway, so we stopped. well lo and behold it was the dog from HELL, so it JUMPS ON TO THE HOOD OF THE CAR AND THEN JUMPS ON THE ROOF OF THE CAR. So us kids, we start screaming our heads offs, cuz there is Kugo the psycho dog on the roof pawing and growling. So my mom backs up, trying to get the dog off the roof of the car, then speeding up and braking hard, well thee dog has super polly grip or something cuz it would not get off. I was so screaming cuz hello PYSCHO DOG. Anyways the dog wouldn't get off, so my mom say kids we r gonna have to run to the house. so my mom drives up on the lawn and we all dash for the house, I mean we were bookin, yeah so el pyscho dog decides to come after us, we barely get into the house. And Kugo (that's what I call it cuz it was a big ass dog) is outside the door. We are still screaming because hello KUGO is growling outside the door ready to kill us (ok maybe not kill us but hey the dog was scary) So like an hour later my dad comes home, (Kugo was out back at the side door), OH MY SISTER DECIDES TO FEED KUGO CUZ SHE FELT SORRY FOR IT. So my dad scares off Kugo somehow, and we don;t see him again. Thank god.......

Oh I have more stories., but I'll tell them soon

As we were a few minutes upon arriving to a retreat two summers ago, our driver who knew the owners of the cabin there told us that a SNAKE in the cabing has held previous residents in captive. :eek: When we arrived the owners told us the rest of the story. They said that a black snake (I think) lives in the living room closet, and comes out in the early morning.

I was so uncomfortable throughout the whole retreat, in fear that I would come in contact with it. :(

I've had a few encounters within distance to wild animals.
The first was when I was in highschool. I was babysitting for this family who had two young boys. Well they were in bed and I was sitting in the livingroom, in the dark, watching television. They had a sliding glass door and the deck lights were on. So as I'm watching tv I notice something move out of the corner of my eye. I screamed...a hairy animal with a long tail that looked like a rat was scurring right by the sliding glass door. It was the ugliest, most hideous looking thing I've ever seen...and also called a Possum.

The second enounter a year later. I was home alone and my neighbor Maralyn called and asked if I could come over because there was some animal on her deck and her drunken boyfriend wouldn't do anything about it ~what I (a teenager) was supposed to do is beyond me. But, I go over there and her dog is on the deck and close to it is...YOU GUESSED IT...a possum! That thing looked like it had fangs...and it was white with beady red eyes. So yeah, I got her dog to get inside quickly and the damn thing went about it's own business.

My third and final story (sorry these aren't so funny)...was just this year. It didn't happen to me but my family instead. My dad often lets our very old and slow dog out at 5 am when he gets up. I guess when he went to let him in he couldn't find him. So he hollard for him and slowly the dog makes his way up the deck stairs...but right behind him was a racoon. My dad scurries the dog in quickly and slams the door. He said you could tell the thing was rabbid.
So later that day my brother had to walk home from school and cut through our backyard like he always does, and I guess the raccoon was in the backyard still. So my brother made a run for it, but the poor thing was so sick he couldn't hardly move. I guess they had to call the humaine society to get him.

Hootie

Hootie,

I just love opossum's-I think they are so cute-ok so I am the only one at work that thinks so:) (they really are darling when they are babies). They come in all the time at work and guess who gets to treat them-me :). I have to admit though they can be a bit stinky-peeeeww.

As far the wildlife encounters for me-I have them everyday-I am so lucky :). Though I was a bit grossed out when someone brought me a rat snake last week thinking it was a rattlesnake-they shot that thing so many times-well I won't describe it, what was bizarre is the 12 year old son wanted to keep it as a trophy-weird.

Yeah, and if they catch one, they'll have ahold of something they can't let go of.

One time, when my grandpa was squirrel hunting, he shot one, and it fell out of the tree. He went to pick it up and it wasn't dead yet, bit his hand pretty bad.

upping a clasic thread :D