Baby raccoon. Cuuuuuuute. But you should have heard the li’l guy when the service came to cart him away for relocation. The guy had to transfer the raccoon from the trap to the box in which he could be transported.
Up until the guy showed up, you’d have thought the baby raccoon would have gone quietly. Cute little scared fellow.
Nah. They sound like the Tasmanian Devil in a blender. You never heard such random, angry sounds that clearly translate into “I’d much rather you did not touch me. Go to Hell. Right now, if convenient.”
Snarling. That’s probably what it was.
Anyhow, the guy finally had to sort of upend the trap onto the box and wait for the raccoon to drop into the box, which he did not do.
One of my cousin’s kids suggested that they gently coax the raccoon with a twig to the backside through the bars of the trap. And after the guy said that might not do any good, it did.
One very angry baby raccoon, off to be relocated to some stretch of Wisconsin woodlands where six others had already been carted.
And maybe the ones that are left will be joining them before they eat any more chickens. Or not.
Poor Hubris. Just can’t take the mind off the ol’ hook, especially when he keeps getting reminded!
why do i have the feeling Kira is literally enjoying herself and waiting for the blood vessel to pop there? lol
Was the raccoon’s eye twitching, too?
Greg, have you seen this week’s Abominable Christopher Charles? (http://abominable.cc/)
Hmm. No, I hadn’t seen it yet. I wonder if Karl lives anywhere near my cousin. Maybe his raccoon removal service is dropping off raccoons at my cousin’s house while her service is dropping them off at his.
The circle of life!
Curse you. I have another one to follow now! (actually, thanks)
Hehehe.
Abominable is kind of hard to follow, in that there are three intertwined storylines that alternate every other strip. Then, it went on hiatus for close to a year as Karl found work at DC (I think) on some major book title. But, that other project ended, and he started up the online comic again a couple weeks ago. The artwork is as good as ever, now.
I think Hubie is clowning around for Kira. He has taken trashed stores and broken bones with only a minor twitch.
Although he may be reaching overload. As long as he doesn’t have a Bob happen to him, he should be fine.
Sounds similar to our hijinks with brushtail possums. Damn things rip bits of the flashing off the roof, and get inside, damaging the house inside and out, and they also damage fruit trees, so we always wish we could relocate them.
The diamond python which moved into the roof seems to have gotten rid of them at the moment. It’s a quieter animal tenant as well.
I had a wild thought. Remember way back when Lowell was talking to the fellow with the hooded robes? Maybe Lowell is just undercover, and all the stuff from him being fired, to his weird devotion to the Outdoor Galore Store and his ‘sabotage’ and going off to ‘find himself’ and live with the raccoon tribe, was all part of his going undercover? Things that visit me at 2 am when I can’t get back to sleep….
So they DID make it out! I had been half fearing that some nutty thing would occur and prevent, or at least delay, their departure. Hubris being able to accomplish something without a hitch — who would’ve thought.
On the other hand, his twitching eye doesn’t bode well. Maybe it’s just a reflex, the result of having gone through so many nutty things. Maybe once, just once, he and Kara will be able to enjoy their camping trip without any more nutty things happening. Until they get home and the next round of nutty things start raining down on them. Not sure what form those nutty things will take; I just know that the nutty things will BE.