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I had an unusual experience today

 
 
Slappy Doo Hoo
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:51 am
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.
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 07:08 am
So, the blood oozing out of the cut you figured was just tree blood, right?
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Reyn
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 07:45 am
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.
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kickycan
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 08:25 am
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.


Laughing That's good. In fact, I'd use this as my sig line, if I were a sig line type of guy.
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 08:32 am
Gus
Latest news is that the mother and her pups found a new condo apartment.

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/WEtlands/Raccoons/RaccoonPicts/RaccoonBabSm.gif
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Linkat
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 10:23 am
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.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 10:57 am
This is one more story in the Legend of Gustav Ratzenhofer. I am going through his posts right now to compile a "source document".
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 11:40 am
For real, BBB?

Gus, you did all you can. Hope the remaining racoons have a safe new home.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:28 pm
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.
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Stray Cat
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:32 pm
Did they at least enjoy the ride to the vet's office?
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:43 pm
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".
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:52 pm
Awwwwww...... the vet's?
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:53 pm
Where else?

My town isn't as big as yours. My options are limited.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:54 pm
At least I didn't put them in a gunny sack filled with rocks and toss them in the river like cjsha would have.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:54 pm
Sorry, cjsha. I shouldn't make assumptions like that.
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:56 pm
cjhsa would have lined them up on a fence and shot them like cans.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:56 pm
Nice to see you, GW. Where ya been?
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 06:59 pm
Working like a share croppers mule so I can sit around all winter and play with the folks of A2k.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 07:00 pm
Nice sig line, Gus.

Better to get them somewhere that can take care of them, by what ever means.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2007 07:02 pm
Maybe the vet will take care of them. You never know.
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