Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] coyotes in Columbia?

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Michael wrote:

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> Both can be mean SOBs. They're scavengers but they'll kill and eat 
> small prey too including some small pets. They will defend their 
> territory too.


I can personally vouch for this...

Once, while my parents were out of town, I went over to their house they 
day they left to check on things and discovered they had left the garage 
door up.  As I walked into the garage, I noticed 3(!) young racoons.  I 
quickly dropped the garage door, recognizing the opportunity to do 
something about these trash-eaters.  In my mind's eye, I pictured 
something snare-like, akin to what we see our friend Steve Irwin using 
on Animal Planet.  Shooting them would have been my first choice, but 
not something that is exactly neighborhood-friendly.  I figured that I 
could drop them into some sort of container, drag them far-far away, and 
let them loose to tear the shit out of someone else's trash...

So I proceeded to rig a snare with some steel guy-wire and a long broom 
handle.  After testing it on my foot, I determined that it would be 
plenty good for the capture of a racoon - if I could manage to get the 
thing around its neck.

The chase was on.  Around the corners, behind trash cans, up on shelves 
I chased one of the little buggers.  Finally, I managed to get one 
cornered sufficiently for ensnarement. 

You would have thought that the russians were coming, and this young 
racoon was ready to take them on by himself.  He made the most awful 
hissing/screeching noise, teeth bared, claws flailing, wildly searching 
for some flesh to dig into.  Needless to say, I was quite taken aback 
and proceeded to swing the snare away, racoon and all.  It landed 
several feet away, and the racoon quickly loosed itself.  I ran over and 
punched the garage door opener, then in a fit of fury (and perhaps 
idiocy considering the nature of this beast) ran back to the coon and 
kicked him in the ass as hard as I could in the general direction of the 
garage door.  Spying another, I gave him a similar treatment.  The third 
must have escaped in the excitement because he was nowhere to be found.

I hate racoons.

-N

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