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Coons on Long Island, and a warning Posted by ChuckD [Email] (#2127) [Profile/Gallery] (more from ChuckD) on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:18:00 In Reply to: Re: My Raccoon., Jonathan, Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:21:42 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Huntington area: My wife comes home with some groceries and, as is our routine, leaves the hatch on the 9-3 open for me to bring the rest in the house. I head out and stop in my tracks at the back door and am instantly engaged in a stare down with what has to be biggest raccoon I've ever seen. I grew up in the Adirondacks (Saranac Lake area) and know something about raccoons.
This was the biggest gd raccoon I've ever seen.
He was clearly going to try to see what was inside that Big Black thing with it's door open and light beckoning. He sat on the driveway, at the tailpipe to the 9-3, and we stared at each other for a good minute or so, maybe forty feet separating us. I think she/he was as fascinated with me as I was with it. Even as I finally approached the car, it only went to the front wheel and continued peer from behind it to watch me.
This being dusk, I was a little concerned about it's health. Coons are nocturnal, but not as a rule, and are gaining a reputation around the tristate area for being rabid and in fact I've spotted one who clearly was (daytime sighting, inebriated behavior) not long ago. So, not wanting to provoke it by raiding its discovery, and wanting to know more about its health, I clapped my hands a couple times and it went bounding off into the woods on a pretty even keel.
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