Thursday, September 24, 2009
NEW HOUSE AND RACCOONS
So I moved into a new house right by the track. I am living with team mates gen and julie, and stacey who has just joined the team from england. We had been here a few days, finally got some seating and a bit of furniture and the house is looking great. Lovely real fire place and wooden bench swing outside. Plus a good driveway to get cars parked and make some money on gameday. After a few weeks we kept being waken up at night by some noises in the roof. There are squirrels everywhere but it sounded a lot larger than a squirrel. It actually sounded like a human could be in our attic, and every night it would make so much noise and drag a dead body around our loft. We were a little worried. We knew it couldnt be a rat or anything of that size. We googled it and came up with the theory of it being a raccoon. Well for the first week out landlord didnt believe us. Said it was just squirrels on the roof. We finally got the courage to take a quick look in the attic. when I say we, i dont mean me. There was no way I was going up there. We came face to face with two cute little faces. It was two baby raccoons about the size of kittens. We took photos and informed our landlord who was meant to deal with the problem. This didnt happen very soon. Our views went from wanted to capture the mother and her babies and release them into woods to wanting to go up there and shoot them ourselves. as 4 nights leading up to our first meet of the year with only a few hours a night of sleep was not fun. Eventually traps were set outside. The next morning we woke up to find a disgusting stinky possom. If people dont know what a possom is then please google it. They are diseased rat type things that are awfully ugly. FINALLY we caught the mother raccoon and another male. But no sign of the babies. A few days later we found them swinging from a tree in our garden, so they were caught and our landlord who is almost definently an animal rights activist drove them an hour to get goats milk???? not sure either??? On the friday we had the first meet of the year.
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