Crazy Raccoon Lady keeps feeding for 40 years, so a HUNDRED surround her home & don't let her leave!

And she's gonna cost taxpayers a lot of money for being a batty old unforgiving bitch, charging WA state for fecal clean-up? I can actually see that happening.

Raccoons are extremely destructive animals who will make nests in your attic and walls. They are one of the only animals that suit where they live and their feces, when dried, can be inhaled when cleaned up their messes and which can infect you with a spiridium bacteria which can kill you.

*shit where they live

This is some shit that would have happened to my Nana. She fed them and they could open the screen door and would come knocking on the storm door for food.

The shitheads that live upstairs from me fed a raccoon one time. They don't bring in the trash bins (I bring them out weekly) and are too lazy to compost. They put their empty alcohol cans outside (they each drink a case a day so there's a lot) and the raccoons will drain them. So, we have drunk raccoons. They also will put bags of garbage on the porch (because see above) and the raccoons, and now possums) will rip open the bags for the cat shit and cat food bags and cans. disgusting creatures. The raccoons and possums are ok though.

I would prefer not to have them hanging around but I just knock on my door window before going out at night and they leave me alone. I can hear them on the stairs outside my windows at night though and sometimes they fight. Raccoons are TERRIFYING when they fight.

Drunk raccoons. Ha!

Told ya we were hardcore

If she had given them relaxing massages, this would never have happened.

Raccoons are not aggressive animals and if they're out during the day they're not rabid just hungry. I've noticed during the summer months the mothers will come out early looking for food because they're nursing. A few weeks later I'll see the mother bring the little ones with her during the day sometimes hanging out playing in the backyard with their mother.

As the babies become older, the mothers then revert back to their nocturnal schedule and come out at night with their little ones in tow. They're very intelligent little creatures and most are not rabid. I read that 20% of the population has become immune to rabies so that's a good thing.

One time I was camping and a raccoon was nibbling my sandal while I was sitting by the fire. I jolted up and swatted it away but it barked like a dog. It was odd.

They will memorize your dog’s schedule and tease the shit out of her. They will actively ignore your cats, which then makes your cats more fascinated.

They will let you know when it’s time to clean your bird feeder.

They can open cheap vinyl windows in your garage; keep the latches closed!

Before I got pregnant I lived in an apartment on the 3rd floor. I was really into doing acid at that time and I was convinced that the hit I took that night wasn't working so I headed home.

I couldn't find my keys so I climbed up the fire escape (metal stairs, not a ladder), popped the window and crawled into my living room. I went to take a shower and forgot to close the window. Also, the acid kicked in.

I came out from the shower to 2 raccoons sitting on my living room chair and they were eating potato chips. I grabbed another bag of chips, a bowl of water and a soda and joined them. They were very polite although not much of conversationalists and they ate the chips, washed their pawz and departed back out the window.

I spent the night tripping fucking balls (that's a WHOLE other story) and when I got up I saw the mess and thought, shit, that was a bizarre trip, imagine believing you're having a tea party with raccoons and I ate 2 bags of chips and triskits (again, whole other story)?!

I was watching tv that night and and on my sofa with the windows behind me and hear scritch tap tap tap.

Apparently some of the night wasn't a trip.

Dollface thread!

Don't throw bouquets at me...

Better to have them in one crazy lady's yard than roaming the city streets feeding on human flesh

[quote] Crazy Raccoon Lady keeps feeding for 40 years

Talk about a coon’s age.

Too bad Hitchcock isn't around to do a remake of "The Birds," but with raccoons.

Does she go by the name "Big Edie"?

This premise would have made a great late in life Olivia de Havilland thriller.

Hollywood would fuck it up with a MCU plot twist - the raccoons speak because they’re Rocket’s descendants.

Surprised they haven’t fed on her. One of these days.

They are cute animals but this would be a nightmare!

They're cute but a nuisance at best. My partner was a big fan (they don't have 'em in his country), until they started shitting on the deck. And as another poster mentioned, their droppings can carry disease.

Google raccoon latrines, they are nasty creatures. The CDC has a lot of info about the bacteria they carry in their feces. In an experiment they soaked the worm eggs for 6 months in bleach and the eggs and bacteria were still viable. The only way to destroy the eggs is with fire. I found a raccoon latrine on my property, I thought "whose dog is crapping on my land" but it was raccoons. I bought a torch and propane tank and repeatedly torched the ground.

Unbelievably stupid. And it impacts the entire neighborhood. And across-the-backyard- fence neighbor lives in a falling-down house with a perrenially unmowed yard. He's 'off' mentally and feeds feral cats, raccoons, possums, everything. All of us deal with the fallout: crap all over the place, damage to houses, the stink of male cats spraying all over, etc. The City has been called on this guy multiple times, but nothing ever comes of it.

Pity there are no Haitians in Kitsap County.

R11, my brother had a similar story. He installed a cat door in a basement window so his cat could wander around the backyard when he was out of the house. He called me one evening to tell me he was in his kitchen staring at a raccoon who was eating his cat's food. The racoon was completely unperturbed by my brother's presence, continued his meal then left back out the cat door. Good raccoon, lol.

She should feed them poison.

Be careful, Pocahontas. It's a slippery slope.