[pct-l] Tent Ground Cloth

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good morning, Wayne,

I sympathize with your problem.  I know what it is like to have raccoons in
the house:  My wife baby-sits our two toddler-age grandsons.

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Kraft" <wayneskraft@comcast.net>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Tent Ground Cloth


> Here's a little factoid for ya:  I had a wet mylar space blanket
> (silver on one side and shiny orange on the other) spread out to dry
> in my garage when the garage was burglarized by a suburban gang of
> raccoons. Apparently there are two things the Northside Racc gangstas
> cannot resist: my dog's food and urinating on mylar.  So brazen were
> these ring-tailed raiders that, when I caught them in the act one
> night, perched atop a counter with the lid removed from my plastic
> dog food tub, their reaction was to EAT FASTER.  I found it necessary
> to arm myself with a broom and actually beat the masked marauders on
> their hind quarters before they would retreat.  Even then my
> purloining procyoninae felt compelled to make one last crackling pass
> through the mylar on their way back to the mean streets of their
> suburban turf.  Now, I am not a man of delicate sensitivities.  I
> grew up on a farm where I was called upon to move vast quantities of
> animal waste to and fro with a bulldozer. Nonetheless,  I found that
> the odor of raccoon urine made me gag and I was forced to discard the
> mylar.  Coyotes and deer have managed to adapt to this suburban
> setting also.  Can black bears be far behind? I think I'd need more
> than a broom.
>
> Wayne Kraft
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pct-l mailing list
> pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> unsubscribe or change options:
> http://mailman.hack.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l