Raccoons .. Don't Mess With 'em

[mod29]

Yikes..bring enough gun when you step out on your porch..!!


Raccoons maul Fla. woman, 74, who shooed them away



Raccoons maul Fla. woman, 74, who shooed them away
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKELAND, Fla. -- A 74-year-old who was "filleted" by raccoons when she tried to shoo them away from her central Florida home was hospitalized for more than two days, authorities said Monday.

Gretchen Whitted, of Lakeland, was in stable condition Monday, two days after she saw a family of raccoons near her back patio. She told rescue personnel she tried to wave the animals away; a few minutes later, she spotted them at her front door and tried to run them off again. Then they attacked.

Whitted fell, and the five animals bit and clawed at her, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

"They enveloped her," the sheriff said.

"We're not talking about a lot of little bites here," Judd added. "She was filleted."

A neighbor called for help after hearing the woman's cries and seeing her covered in blood.

Whitted received dozens of staples and sutures and was treated for rabies, though officials doubt the animals were infected.

Fire crews flooded nearby drains where some of the animals escaped, but none turned up. Animal Control officers hope to catch them in traps baited with wet cat food and sardines.

"I've been a hunter all my life and I've never heard of raccoons attacking in a mob like this," Judd said.

 

[dave b]

ACORN mob.

 

[Crazy K38]

sounds like the brady bunch's kids to me, find the one you don't like and attack

 

[Andy Griffith]

Goes to show you that kids aren't what they used to be.

Why, if we would have been down there, those things would have been hats instead of mooching treats from the little old ladies.

 

[pred]

That is horrible!
Those raccoon need to be caught and disposed of properly.
If they were dogs they would be put down!
Peter

 

[jframe]

Had a couple of slightly intoxicated friends run over one one dark night. They stopped and picked him up, figured he'd make a cool hat or something. Went down the road after putting him in the trunk and got about five miles when the coon suddenly rose from the dead. You ain't seen nothing til you've seen two drunk guys standing on either side of a car with all the doors open out in the dark of night, and a pissed off coon chewing through a seat back to get out of the car. I'll bet that was the last time they picked up something that they thought was dead!

 

[Krull]

Lol-from a guy who's tangled with coons,with a sword! yea,I'm a bit crazy

Thing is you don't go after a coon with a broom,I always have a gun with me when I step out of my house for a reason many things in the backwoods can bite and claw you!
But a .44 mag settles things rather quick or the AR,or if I'm REALLY P.O. then it's 12ga time........

Things is to be ready if you live in the country,if not...well you may wind up like granny in the story.

 

[Spotteddog]

That's why I don't let our Cocker Spaniel screw with the mom and entourage of 5 now full grown offspring that live in my (E) neighbors garage loft. Lucky me, they come out to forage the other (N) neighbor's Coy around 01:00 hrs. I get home and try to let the hound out back, and find them lurking around like a MS13. Scanning the fence line @ 02:00 with a flashlight always reveals 6 pairs of eyes. No one will ever be able to convince me these vermin don't know just exactly where they'll not be blown off of a fence rail or tree limb with a 12 gauge! And if I ever think the dog is in danger of getting nailed, my last concern will be a city ordinance. Another of God's useless creatures IMHO.

 

[gcerrone]

raccoons!

As a kid I always wanted a raccoon as a pet. When I raised chickens many years later I realized how dangerous they could be.They wiped out many bird from my small flock and forced me to put wire on the top of my run. Very unpredictable.

 

[Krull]

That's why I don't let our Cocker Spaniel screw with the mom and entourage of 5 now full grown offspring that live in my (E) neighbors garage loft. Lucky me, they come out to forage the other (N) neighbor's Coy around 01:00 hrs. I get home and try to let the hound out back, and find them lurking around like a MS13. Scanning the fence line @ 02:00 with a flashlight always reveals 6 pairs of eyes. No one will ever be able to convince me these vermin don't know just exactly where they'll not be blown off of a fence rail or tree limb with a 12 gauge! And if I ever think the dog is in danger of getting nailed, my last concern will be a city ordinance. Another of God's useless creatures IMHO.

Another thing this reminded me of-coons will kill cats (I know of two who were lost to the vermin),which is why I have a "shoot on sight" order in my yard.

Do NOT mess with my cats unless you want a war.

 

[ohiobuckeye]

A full grown raccoon has been known to whip up on some pretty tough 'coon hounds and is nothing I would even think about tangling with bare handed. Let alone trying to "shoo" away five of them. There are darned few, if any, wild animals that a man can tangle with bare handed, regardless of size, and not come out the worse for wear.

 

[sar4937]

I get up to let the dogs out at 5:00 AM, and the two Boxers had caught a racoon on the porch. It had my male by the nose, and he in turn had it. Neither one would let go of the other. So I raised my arms to make myself big, and shouted as loud as I could for my dog to out. I thought sure I would get bit by this racoon, but the dog outed and the racoon took off for parts unknown. I did not need any coffee that morning! And spent the day relocating the bird feeders off the backporch, and down in the yard.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

In my never-ending war with the raccoon nation, I have found that the .38 Special 148 grain wadcutter round, fired from either a Model 52 or a Model 19, produces one-shot stops on critters up to 40 pounds, with a minimum of flip-flopping around before they cease to exchange CO2 for oxygen.

Defense of cats, bird-feeders, oats for horses, and any other reason you can think of are all acceptable bases for the issuance of death warrants in my court.

I used to think that coon huntin' was unnecessarily cruel. Now, I am not so sure that it is rough enough. Anyone know how to waterboard a raccoon?


Bullseye

 

[Lenshappy]

They only attack AARP members....

 

[Bassamatic]

Don't take my gun..."I'll be needing it for coons and such".

 

[M28]

I had a standoff with a big'un a couple of years back. We were tent camping in a campground and the GF had left her dog's eats sitting outside in a bowl right next to the tent. My large dog went nuts and woke me up when the critter started feasting. I spotted him with the five cell maglite through the tent screen and stood up in the tent. It stood up on it's haunches and didn't seem the least bit concerned that a large dog and an even larger human were less then ten feet away. I exited the tent with the maglite and my trusty 469 and somehow it sensed danger and split. I don't know if it was an attack raccoon or not, but I was uncomfortable with how comfortable it appeared to be in that situation.

Brian~

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

IIRC the raccoon population here in the Northeast was suffering from a rabies plague a few years ago, yet anothe reason to avoid contact with them. Years ago a veterinarian said to me "Cats are well engineered" and so are raccoons-nothing unfunctional about them and the sick, lame and lazy are usually weeded out PDQ. And they are basically predators-sharp claws for grasping prey, large canines for tearing it apart.

 

[badam0112]

This happened about 3 miles from my house. Those racoons have to be rabid. It sounds horrible, they detached her achiles tendon and bite her to the bone in several spots.

 

[mjr]

One of my ex-brother-in-laws always said to think of raccoons as 30-pound bears. They're not cuddlesome.

 

[Grayfox]

That's why one of the nicknames for coons is "Chain saw in a fur coat"!