I thought it was a cat (pics)
 

I was taking Buddy out for his nightly walk when he stopped and stared up at the roof of my house. I looked up, and in the dark, thought I saw a cat. Then, noticed there were two of them.

As my eyes adjusted, I realized they were raccoons, and that there were three of them. I went in the house to grab my camera, and grabbed a few shots.

I know for you country bumpkins, a coon is no big deal, but we don't get a lot of them around here . . . although my house seems to attract all kinds of varmints: possums, squirrels, skunks, and now coons.

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Nice, get the 22lr out, lol.

Around here having them around your house at this time of year means there is a good chance they are chewing a hole into your house to stay warm.

Coons!! !!

This time of year? Yeah, that 80 degree weather must be killing them :1orglaugh

Is 22lr a .22? I doubt the cops would be very understanding . . . or my neighbors if I missed

they're cute

it that was outside my house i will throw a rock at at shit!

kewl!
you're not gonna see those here in europe often.

btw, that gotta be fancy camera that takes so low noize pics at night. which one was it?

The Raccoons are easily frightened, but they'll soon be back and in greater numbers.

The fanciest



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Frightened? you could have fooled me.

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Every time I approached this guy, he stood up. I got within 15-20' of these guys, and they didn't look too worried.

they have a special nack for getting into any trash and making huge messes.. Thousands of them here in Arkansas..
I hate hate hate coons....

What we have always done was backed them into a corner.. grabbed them by the tail and put them in a trash can..with a lid.... then took them to the country and dropped them off..

they are not the nicest things in the world either.. they have big sharp teeth and will bite and hiss .. just distract him and grab his tail.. Arkansas coons will also kick your dog or cats ass.. they are mean mean little monsters.

no doubt..........they have massive gang fights here with opossum's all the time... the coons are master tacticions, send in raiders from the side to draw out the guards then the rest of the crew makes a dash for the opossum babies....

I am sorry, but "big sharp teeth" and "backed them into a corner" was not something my pappy raised this boy to do.

Back them into a corner with what? A truck?

some great pics there...the y look possesed the way the camera has captured there eyes ...i betcha buddy wanted to stay outside and watch them ha ha

they are watching you :1orglaugh

ummm, not so much. If they were on the ground, perhaps, but with the height advantage I am not so sure.

coons rock... everyone hates them because they rip garbage open, but they are just looking for something to eat

i had the privilege of getting to be up close and personal with a few coons that were hurt and got helped getting healthy by a local animal shelter and they got used to humans quick, pretty neat animals, act just like a house cat or dog would once getting used to people...

We don't have such animals in our country ;) (but we have aurochs ;))

In the first two pictures they really look like cats.

I grew up ion 10 acres of woods..saw them most nights but yet every night they drove the dogs nuts

they looks so scary....

cutie kiii :)

when I lived in florida I would throw my leftovers off my porch for them so they would stay out of my trash cans. It worked. They were really friendly and curious, but they get too comfortable too fast. They started scratching at my windows while we were eating dinner.

Gotta love that pussy!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :thumbsup

I got an idea: :1orglaugh
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Just kidding, they are kinda cute in a vermin sort of way!

i thought they were cats in that first pic too.

You got some racoon stalkers now..

heheh.. nice cute pics..!

would of made a nice hat :) or 3

crocodile shows next

yeah...nice shots btw :thumbsup

Was it garbage night?

I have raccoons all over my property. They run around and eat the cat and dog food that we leave out. The ones around here aren't afraid, some of them sleep on the steps in the daytime. As for grabbing one by the tail though...wtf is that guy smoking?

I like to look at them but have has some nightmares when dealing with these critters and possums too. When I lived in FLA I had this coon that would block my way into the house when I would come home from work..needless to say the garbage cans were is home. That fucking thing would make me walk around the house to go in the other door..it would sit atop the garbage can and hiss and growl at me.. it was huge.

I had finally had enough of that fuckers bullshit and came home pissed one night..got out of the car with lighter fluid and a lighter and finally put an end to that fat bastard.

it does look like a cat

In my country there is no raccoons.Only animals in my backyard is frogs and cats.

a bit spooky

what did you do to it? just scared him away or did you really put an end to that fat bastard?


great pics lloyd, no raccoons around here in phx...

They look so cute!! Awwe :)

I used to get raccoons the size of golden retrievers where I used to live.

no offense, but try cleaning your gutters

bump for coons and your house :rasta

wow coons! They are so big! In a good place you live, i've never seen them.

they're really cute but can be a nuisance
there are quite a few in our neighborhood but they pretty much stay away from our house because of our dogs

hopefully they're not chewing holes in your attic like they did in my old house :(

cute indeed

Great pics! They are so nice. Are they dangerouse?

They're gonna come and eat you at night ;)