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salgud wrote:
> Dean S. Lautermilch wrote:
>> http://www.pbase.com/lautermilch/racoon
>
> I'd retitle it, "The Quest for Rabies"!
> Anyone who gets that close to a wild raccoon obviously doesn't know
> anything about animals.

Oh bull.
I've been around a ton of them, and they aren't the huge threat you imply.
If they threaten anything, they threaten to make a mess of your trash
cans...

On the other hand, I was treated for rabies as a toddler...11 shots in the
stomach over a period of days--as they did back then...but that was for bats
in South America...not raccoons.

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:04:39 GMT, "Gene Palmiter"
<palmiter_gene@verizon.net> wrote:

>> I've been around a ton of them, and they aren't the huge threat you imply.
>> If they threaten anything, they threaten to make a mess of your trash
>> cans...
>
>
>While I would never encourage a child to play with a wild raccoon I have to
>say that when I have hand fed wild ones they were very polite and didn't
>want to touch me at all...they just reached out and took the food. A rabid
>animal is more aggressive...but there is that period where they are infected
>but don't yet show signs.
>
>Life is a risk...but that is not a reason to avoid it. Its not a reason to
>avoid meeting the other creatures who share the Earth with us.
>

No one does any wild animal a favor by feeding it or causing it to
lose it's fear of man.


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"John A. Stovall" <johnastovall@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:04:39 GMT, "Gene Palmiter"
> <palmiter_gene@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>> I've been around a ton of them, and they aren't the huge threat you
>>> imply.
>>> If they threaten anything, they threaten to make a mess of your trash
>>> cans...
>>
>>
>>While I would never encourage a child to play with a wild raccoon I have
>>to
>>say that when I have hand fed wild ones they were very polite and didn't
>>want to touch me at all...they just reached out and took the food. A rabid
>>animal is more aggressive...but there is that period where they are
>>infected
>>but don't yet show signs.
>>
>>Life is a risk...but that is not a reason to avoid it. Its not a reason to
>>avoid meeting the other creatures who share the Earth with us.
>>
>
> No one does any wild animal a favor by feeding it or causing it to
> lose it's fear of man.
>
>

Frankly, I've never seen a raccoon with a fear of man. We had one who used
to come into our backyard and drink from the fountain in the middle of our
pond. He would just grab the electrical cord that lead to the fountain pump
and pull it towards him.

--
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com

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salgud wrote:
> Gene Palmiter wrote:
>>> I've been around a ton of them, and they aren't the huge threat you
>>> imply. If they threaten anything, they threaten to make a mess of
>>> your trash cans...
>>
>>
>> While I would never encourage a child to play with a wild raccoon I
>> have to say that when I have hand fed wild ones they were very
>> polite and didn't want to touch me at all...they just reached out
>> and took the food. A rabid animal is more aggressive...but there is
>> that period where they are infected but don't yet show signs.
>>
>> Life is a risk...but that is not a reason to avoid it. Its not a
>> reason to avoid meeting the other creatures who share the Earth with
>> us.
>
> Cool. Will you go to the Denver zoo with me and get in the tiger cage
> while I take some snaps!

That would just be Darwin at work!

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Gormless wrote:

> (Gorm knows when his pictures are too bad to post news of, and therefore
> doesn't.)

Too bad Gorm doesn't realize that his postings are of equal rubbish.

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Jer wrote:
> Gene Palmiter wrote:
>>> No one does any wild animal a favor by feeding it or causing it to
>>> lose it's fear of man.
>>
>>
>> Not true...just politically correct. We don't do the animals a favor
>> when during a harsh winter we drop hay to them?
>
> If they're migratory animals, then no.
>
>> When we create water holes?
>
> Again, depends.
>
>> when
>> we preserve habitat near human populations? Predators are a
>> different issue of course! We should not leave dead animals on our
>> porches and this is just one of the reasons. (You might be a redneck
>> if...) How wild are 'coons who feed on our garbage every night anyway?
>
> I don't know. Why are they having to scrounge for food in an urban
> garbage can instead of their natural habitat?

Has it occurred to you that 'coons also scrounge for food in the wild?
They'll happily grab the "garbage" left by a bear, or other predator, and
etc.
Why should they sudenly treat human garbage any differently?
They live off of what they can catch...or find.
What's so strange about this?
They are a thriving species...quite happy to live and breed this way.

Perhaps you should be crying that **WE** aren't living in OUR natural
habitat of caves and dirt...



>(assuming they still
> have a natural habitat) OTOH, if one looks at the list of animals
> that can survive well in urban environments, racoons would be quite
> near the top, given their opportunistic proclivities.

Do wild animal neighbors of beavers live in a "natural habitat" when the
beaver dramatically alters it by damming up streams...disrupting the natural
course of this and that species that rely on the stream?
Why aren't you whining about that? Perhaps you should kill all those
pesky beavers...
Beavers can dink around with nature--the spawning fish be damned...but we
are somehow disallowed?
Why?