I've tried multiple times to saw off a raccoon's hind legs with a chainsaw, but the suckers always seem to run off too quickly.
So, the blood oozing out of the cut you figured was just tree blood, right?
cicerone imposter wrote:I believe gus has an unusual experience every day.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's the nature of the beast.
dadpad wrote:if you whack a tree with the back of an axe you can hear the hollow ring Kind of sounds like the noise Kickys head makes banging against the bar top when the barman calls time.
That's good. In fact, I'd use this as my sig line, if I were a sig line type of guy.
Gus
Latest news is that the mother and her pups found a new condo apartment.
I'm impressed Gus (not that you hacked off the legs off that one raccoon, but that you showed remorse and tried to reunite the family in some small way.
I guess you aren't all that bad after all.
This is one more story in the Legend of Gustav Ratzenhofer. I am going through his posts right now to compile a "source document".
For real, BBB?
Gus, you did all you can. Hope the remaining racoons have a safe new home.
The one thing I didn't expect to happen was to find the baby raccoons still in the box this morning, but that's what happened. They were scratching the sides of the box, trying to get out, obviously abandoned by the mother. I took them to town and dropped them off at the vet's office. I set them on the desk and told the assistant, "I'm not sure what you do with these things, but here you go."
Then I left. I, like the mother, abandoned those creatures in their time of need, but, unlike the mother, I was able to slam down a few whiskeys to ease the guilt.
Did they at least enjoy the ride to the vet's office?
Stray Cat wrote:Did they at least enjoy the ride to the vet's office?
I believe they did, Stray Cat/ Elvis. As my truck rumbled down the road I glanced in the box, which was gently rocking on the front seat, and although I am not versed in raccoon talk, what the one little feller was saying was, I am quite sure, "I love car rides".
Where else?
My town isn't as big as yours. My options are limited.
At least I didn't put them in a gunny sack filled with rocks and toss them in the river like cjsha would have.
Sorry, cjsha. I shouldn't make assumptions like that.
cjhsa would have lined them up on a fence and shot them like cans.
Nice to see you, GW. Where ya been?
Working like a share croppers mule so I can sit around all winter and play with the folks of A2k.
Nice sig line, Gus.
Better to get them somewhere that can take care of them, by what ever means.
Maybe the vet will take care of them. You never know.