Psycho Killer Raccoons Terrorize Olympia — These miserable animals are all over the state of California too. Many local dummies think they are “cute.”
A fierce group of raccoons has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, residents of Olympia say.
Some have taken to carrying pepper spray to ward off the masked marauders and the woman who was bitten now carries an iron pipe when she goes outside at night.
“It’s a new breed,” said Tamara Keeton, who with Kari Hall started a raccoon watch after an emotional neighborhood meeting drew 40 people. “They’re urban raccoons, and they’re not afraid.”
Tony Benjamins, whose family lost two cats, said he got a big dog — a German Shepherd-Rottweiler mix — to keep the raccoons away.
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These animals are as mean and nasty as Badgers, wolverines, and Bears..
Somebody put snakes in a theater that was showing Snakes on a Plane. I think it was in Arizona. I hope it’s not some sort of national effort.
The raccoons around here (Cambridge, Ontario Canada) have green glowing eyes and steal cars.
Ha Ha I had one growl at me once… A boot fixed that problem. Raccoons are nothing. Try a mixed pack of Coyotes and feral dogs that have been breeding together. Then you have a bit of a problem. Bears are bad, but easy to shoot. Although so far the most annoying animal I have had problems with getting rid of is either a beaver(they hide) or skunks EWWW.
Although Skunks are really mean fighters which is something not many people realize since the smell usually does it.
People, there’s almost no habitat left for these and other animals. Things like these are only to be expected, and will happen more often in the future. Start getting used to it or be prepared to kill all and every animal alive that’s of no direct use to us. And then be prepared to die also.
I agree with you Miguel but it’s obvious with the current trend that the word “wildlife” itself will become extinct or will refer to a dog that has escaped his yard. Unfortunately, it may be better for the wild animals to be quickly dispatched rather than reproducing and suffering the hardships of trying to live in urban environments.
BTW, people need to be weary of letting their dogs take care of the “problem” because racoons are common victims of the rabies disease which could be passed to a pet in a brawl. Remember Ole Yeller.
#25 — next time you fly cross-country spend some time and look down — virtually every mile you’ll see is raccoon country. It is one of the most widely distributed genus of animals on the planet.
There’s plenty of room for raccoons out there, there’s just a gazillion of them. If it was a roach you’d step on it and not think twice. Cute? Sure. But not when it’s tearing a way into your basement. Predators need to manage the population of other species. You can introduce wolves into your neighborhood, or shoot these critters yourself.
Oh God…I HATE these things.
I run a paper route here in Michigan and I hit more of these things than any other animal out there. Never hit a dog or a cat or a rabbit (though many have run out in front of me). But I’ve hit about 20 raccoons. They run out into the road and just stop. Or wait until I’m right on top of them to decide they want to run across the road. Cats, dogs, rabbits, foxes….they all run out, but they CONTINUE running across the road. Raccoons stop, look, decide they want to go back to the other side then WHAM I hit them.
They ARE cute, John- and normally very shy creatures. A raccoon attacking a person is like your Grandma robbing a gas station with a sawed-off shotgun.
27,
KEEP looking down, and LOOK harder…
How much of that land is FARM land and has large tractors going over it.
How much is BLM lnads that cant grow much of anything except WEEDS.
Think about WHERE they can get food from ANY of this land…
Do you KNOW what they eat, and their Fav habitat??
They LOVE eggs,
They Like to live near water areas, like lakes, and ponds, in forested areas…simular to swamps and marsh lands..
Where have all the birds gone?? Where are they landing when we clear ALL the marshes, and swamps?? When we clear all the forests, and disturb all the birds…. FOR FARMING, and CITIES.
Before the WHITE man came here, beFORE the indian, it was ANIMALS living RIGHT WHERE YOU LIVE.
YOUR HOME was built on some animals HOME. ANd they want it BACK… They are willing to Share it….ARE YOU willing to share?
#30 — Read the book “1491.” You’ll find it enlightening, although it doesn’t deal with raccoons.
Raccoons live in all those suburbs you see. The live in much of the metro areas. They live on all those farms — just ask the farmers. Raccoons live in close proximity to water sources, which have not changed significantly with the addition of mechanized farming. I assure you they live in the trees in the fieldbreaks, and scavage from fields and the farmer’s supplies. Ask the farmer at your local vegetable stand — he sees raccoons all the time.
“Raccoons are omnivorous and will eat whatever they can get. In most places, plants make up most of a raccoon’s diet. Raccoons will also eat other vertebrates but generally stick to invertebrates like insects and crayfish. In urban areas, raccoons have adapted to digging through trash to find food.”
Source: http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Raccoon.asp
Raccoons have adapted EXCEPTIONALLY well to habitated land, which is why there are so doggone many of them. There were vastly less prior to the arrival of Europeans. They fill the same niche as mice and rats, which have also seen a population explosion. North American animals like Jaguars and Condors have not managed the transition as well and are indeed endangered and are deserving of your efforts to protect them. Raccoons have fared far better.
The raccoon gene pool is massive, and their overpopulation provides avenues for diseases that would otherwise be controlled. When an organism’s population explodes it becomes an opportunity for predatorial species, microscopic or macro. Humans can manage the population of the species in human occupied space or they can let rabies and typhus do it.
YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING IDIOTS! Even I wouldn’t be as stupid to think a raccoon is cuddly. Those things are deadly! You have probabally just gotten to soft from living the city life that you forgot that the world holds dangers.
A raccoon is in my backyard and ate one of my baby CHICKS!! i was so terrified i didnt know what to do there was like three of them. I had sent my two older daughters to go get the other chicks from the coop. once they came back they told me that there was three of them coming down from the bushes while they were gathering the chicks and started to jumping down from the bushes. We are aware now about the horrible incident. We hope it never happens again!!!
Hey what the heck’s wrong with u! Raccoons r cute. (at least cuter than you!) I am friends with RaccoonMan. Don’t make me ask him to jack u up!
Wildlife is just trying to survive in a world that we are slowly using up and destroying. They do not ask for much, just a place to sleep and enough to eat and survive. They raise their young and do not have it easy. Some are lucky and live in a natural setting and good habitat. Some are unlucky and live in areas where people also live and this is their misfortune. I never thought to much about Raccoons until I found a baby half dead that had been abanded. What an incredible joy this little girl brought to our home, they are so smart and funny. We bottle feed her, bathed her and gave her a chance to be free and live. After a lot of information and out of love for our little baby, we found a Vet to train Lucky and return her to the wild where she would be free in a safe area. Maybe we adapt better in Missouri with nature.