Had a very scary encounter today. Always be prepared.

climbingrocks said:
They are tough to regulate as they have almost no natural predators nowadays aside from humans. If you every shoot a coon that is acting funny, aim for the chest and call animal control. The brainstem can at least be salvaged for autopsy to look for Negri bodies and serotyping of the virus. This stuff is important for tracking the spread of specific strains of the virus as well as guiding vaccine production.
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Very true,I just found out a while back that they can test a head shot animal but the labs really hate to do it and it may lead to a false negative.Plus Animal Control would most likely not even have it tested if it were head shot and no reported human contact.
Here wild animals that have not had human contact are tested by the USDA,takes a while.Cases of human contact are decapped by us and taken to the state lab at UT,results in one to two days.
 
Holy crap,lol, it was a racoon right??? Not a grizzly bear? Calm down and shoo it away with a broom, and leave the sword inside there Conan, your gonna freak out the neighborhood kids...good thing it wasnt a large groundhog or a possum, mighta had to call in for air support......;)
 
My instant cure for ALL Raccoons is just take one .17hmr and lie down where you are, you can go to the Grave Yard and the Possums will have you for supper.
I hate Raccoons, along with feral cats they are Mother Natures serial killers and should be killed on site!
 
I lived in Lexington a few years ago. Great city. And UK fans make it that way.
I used to have 2 "friendly" coons that I hand-fed on a daily basis, so I can sympathize for the animal.
However, they can raise hell on your property if not "contained". And who knows...they could spread disease IF rabid. And I say leave animal control out of it. They'll kill it anyway.
 
Be careful where you nap. I had a similar experience. I was out in the woods sleeping by a creek. I was having a dream that my brother Merle was yelling at me and I woke up with a zombie trying to eat my foot.

Oh wait……that was Daryl Dixon:

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But seriously always be careful. I live in central California and I don't sleep on my porch because I'll wake up with one tweaker licking my elbow and another one steeling the copper piping out of my air conditioner. Their behavior is often consistant with your racoon pal's.
 
As someone who's out in the sticks everyday, and runs into coons all the time, I find this post funny. I see them all the time acting strangely and even had a few...wait for it....touch me while out sleeping on the ground (insert scary music). If it didn't bite you and you washed off, you have NOTHING to worry about.
 
If it was rabid, consider yourself very fortunate! Had it been a person with bad intention's, you would have been in trouble. Use this experience to "adjust".... your situational awareness.... Being a little paranoid is better than being caught off guard by man or beast. The Raccoon population has exploded since the fur trade went down the crapper, not to mention more and more wood's being converted to subdivision's leaving these animal's no where to go. They have adapted to many environ's that bring them closer to human's.
 
Hey, I lived in Lexington a short while had a bigger problem with raccoons in the city then on a hill all by ourselves - like everybody here is saying, when they can get food around people, fed it or steal it, they tend to get a lot more troublesome I guess.

I felt it was an overreaction having chased off a few before but reading your follow up posts I think you have to follow your instincts. I've seen a few animals that were just "not quite right" and know what you mean. Think you reacted well given everything like badgercustomdotcom said.

It's a good reminder that the tame areas of the world are only tame because we keep them that way I think.
 
I guess my stepdaughter is smarter than i thought. She frequently calls for an escort from her car to the house at night if she sees a raccoon.
 
I was hog hunting one night, laying down in ambush, had a possum hit/bite my boot, at the time I slowly turn around thinking 300lbs hog, nope just a possum, and a turtle head.
 
Crazy story. Darn vermin.

These are the kind of stories that are entertaining while chilling on the deck sharing a couple frosty beverages with friends. Cool that you shared it here.

Encounters with local wildlife help me decide what types of gear to pack in (various purpose) bags and packs. Not too long ago, when speaking to "bug out bags" in a thread here in the Busse corner of BF, I suggested that ones camping pack / load out is a good core for a bug out...this is one of my reasoning points for that suggestion.
 
I have a lot of raccoon and coyotes cross my property. I've had racoons charge me on my porch and out in the yard. Now, if I see them they are chased off, but if they balk, they are dead. My kids have been trained in what to do in these instances as well, especially when bear show up. Many sighting these last 2 years.
I have been involved in wildlife rehabilitation here in the PNW, SOCAL and in the deep south and have had experiences with aggressive racoons, possum and plenty of other species. Although aggression is not the norm for most wildlife that hit the burbs, any body who says that it doesn't happen without provocation is inexperienced and would do much better to never give advice about dealing with animals.
 
I think you've been spending too much time at the Atomic Cafe. Maybe take it down a notch, huh?



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Nevermind the naysayers Bro. Anybody worth the salt as a parent, and actually knows enough to be cautious about animal behavior is going to be supportive.
 
All is fine in the world:thumbup:

I got the little bastid for ya:cool:

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I had raccoons for pets not all of them Cary rabies that's like saying people Cary HIV!
they are just curious animals.
I strongly suggest to you if you are force to put one down to do it in a humane manner, after all they are still animals and otherwise you might be the one in trouble for animal cruelty.
 
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