Okay, Okay I know! I got overly excited about the trembling raccoon in the cage on Saturday!
My new friend Drew from TruTech came back on Monday to pick up Rascal. Drew didn't crawl up in the attic to check everything out but, he did set another trap just in case Rascal had friends over to stay with him. He said would be back on Wednesday to check the attic and spray for raccoon germs. I was nervous about him not checking the attic but I didn't want him to think I was neurotic and hateful so I let him leave against my better judgement...BIG MISTAKE. Everything was fine until last night (Tuesday) I took Chevy out before I went to bed and he started to chase Peter CottonTail through our yard while I still had ahold of his leash!!!! S came out to help me when he heard my cries while being pulled through the yard on a rabbit hunt and immediately froze, he said "shhhh, do you hear that" I didn't hear a thing because, I am deaf, need hearing aides and was being dragged through the yard by a 95 lb. beast. Sure enough as soon as I regained control over myself and horse like dog we call a pet I heard it. It was them, the raccoons were scurrying and talking and doing whatever else raccoons do. It was painfully obvious that there was more than one raccoon, lots of chattering and lots of scurrying. Drew was already coming back today so I waited until this morning to call him and and give him bad news about the visitors. He said that Rascal was positively a boy raccoon and if there were babies and a mother raccoon upstairs then we just caught a raccoon that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Apparently, female raccoons will not allow their babies to be around male raccoons. Poor Rascal, he didn't mean to visit our backyard during raccoon catching season.
This time I was not worried about seeming neurotic or hateful, I politely requested that Drew climb into the attic find the darn raccoons. He did. We now have "eviction paste" in the attic to make mother raccoon and her babies evacuate the Hunt residence. Below is what Drew brought with him when he climbed down out of the attic this afternoon.
Yeh, so cute. Just wait til its destroying your attic.
Hopefully tonight or tomorrow I will hear this little guy's mother and siblings exiting my house and we can repair the hole they made as their doorway.
I did learn 2 very important lessons from the raccoons:
1. Don't count your raccoons before they hatch.
2. Never name a wild animal that you hope will later be taken away in a cage and destroyed, you'll just be sad when it actually happens.
On a happier note, Chevy and Elliot (Claire's dog) met this weekend
I think they are going to be best friends if Chevy learns that if he falls and lands on Elliot or tackles him, he will squish him!
Night!
I am concerned about the life of the raccoons! poor little guys!
ReplyDeleteDon't worry B, he let them all live except for Rascal. He was sick, Drew said they even kept the babies and made sure they were healthy and old enough before releasing them. :)
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