A Silly Little Encounter

[aggienaut]

   Once upon a time it was a week and a half ago, and I was 445 miles north of here. I was walking back to my aunt and uncle's place in Davis late Saturday night.

   Suddenly I stopped and stood there. Walking the opposite direction through the front yards on the same side of the street as me was a large raccoon. He stopped and stood there.

   On his hind legs. Like a standing bear (did you know raccoons are most closely related to bears?). We stood there stairing at eachother for a minute. Then I backpaced a few steps so there was a tree between he and I. After a moment I peeked around it and watched him scamper off between two houses.

   Then a cat trotted over from across the front of one of the houses and also watched the raccoon disappear off to the back. After the raccoon disappeared the cat turned and looked at me, as if to say "wtf was that about?" I shrugged and continued on my way.

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   Tonight I fly out to Atlanta, Georgia (god forbid I go a full week without travelling far and wide ;D ). Will be back on Sunday.


Picture of the Day


An airliner lifts off from the sea of fog around Sacramento Airport (just north of Davis)

Comments

[birgitriddle]

Something similiar occasionally happens with me and squirrels. They are everywhere here.

[vakratunda.livejournal.com]

Raccoons are about as smart as we are.


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[emosnail.livejournal.com]

He's probably blogging about the encounter right now.

You Can Establish Relations

[vakratunda.livejournal.com]

Leave a little bit of brandy and milk, and maybe a bit of overripe meat out every night. Also, talk to them when you see them.

Things can get really interesting.

The easiest critters to actually do this with are crows, but raccoons are not hard.


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Re: You Can Establish Relations

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I've established relations with possums both here and at a previous place I lived. I think possums are pretty cool.

And in Ireland we had a crow we named Fred that we trained to at least come down to the window and take food from our hands. (=

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

Have a very safe trip and don't do anything I wouldn't do.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

::Makes a note to self that wearing smarties for efface is still an option::

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

I aim to please! Plus she sent me candy, how could I not?

[wagrobanite.livejournal.com]

actually.. coons are slightly more related to dogs than bears... it's complicated skeletal thing with toes and size of femurs...

Cats and coons not a good idea... Plus, raccoons rarely attack humans unless rabid.

Raccoons

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I wasn't afraid of it, just amused to encounter it. Yeah I get the imression their relation to other things is kind of unclear, I guess they were formerly thought to be mustelids but thats looking less likely?

[mortimer-ford.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you wanna have a few beers let me know. I'm in the area.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Area of Atlanta? Really? How close?

[mortimer-ford.livejournal.com]

Stone Mountain area. About 15 miles away. There's lots of killer places in the downtown area.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

I love raccoons... Sounds like you had a real-life LOLcat encounter! *hee!*

[stormmm.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting little encounter.

[y0ur-c0nscience.livejournal.com]

Damn, I saw a bear and shot it with a BB gun and RAN LIKE HELL.

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

I hope you had a wonderful trip (sorry this is a late response). What's going on in Atlanta?

And I actually chuckled out loud at the raccoon and cat story.