UFC (ultimate fighting child-sized) Raccoons

[persnickett]

This is for severina2001.

Mr Snick would kill me for not chasing these little suckers off, but there are BABY RACCOONS wrestling under a chair on my balcony. And Sev has an unhealthy obsession with them.

(sorry for the quality, I had to take it through glass. with no flash. at twilight. up hill both ways in the snow, yadda.)

Comments

[severina2001]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I LOVE YOU. I love that you didn't chase them away and let them play and took pictures and they are just so so so adorable and teeeeeny and it's not their fault we took over all their land they just want some food and someplace to live awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ADORABLE.

disclaimer: they still should not live in your chimney, got it

SO CUTE. THANK YOU. :)

[persnickett]

No they should not live in my chimney, dig through the sunroom floor and into the house to bite duke and give him distemper, leave supposedly potentially-fatal-to-humans bacteria-carrying dung about the place, fling my garbage about my driveway with gay abandon, or make Mr. Snick sleep on the roof, ever ever again.

But they can wrestle on my balcony. ...for a bit.

My house was built in 1924. I GUARANTEE you it was here before they were.

*Clearly* I love you too. WTF It's like I don't even know me anymore.

[severina2001]

They will not do anything of those things. These are GOOD raccoons. *nods and snuggles*

[persnickett]

No? Hate to break it to ya, but they've already got strike one (aka potentially-fatal-to-humans bacteria-carrying dung about the place) under their belts.

[slip_f18]

Cuuuuuuute!

[persnickett]

Eeeeeheee. I'm glad somebody else enjoyed them.

[littlestarling]

Oh thank God you said BABY raccoons and PLAYING because when I saw that first picture...well, I apologize for what I said about you when I thought you were posting furry porn.

[persnickett]

so now you don't like furry porn? since when!? sigh...there's a PM from me in your inbox...just delete it ;)

Hee. Justin Icon.

[storyfan]

Aww. Cute!

I know how you feel. They're so cute when they're small, but when they get big they're terribly destructive. There's a big fat one around here that keeps making off with the outside cats' food dish.

[persnickett]

THE WHOLE DAMN DISH?

Yeah. I mean they're cute the whole time. They just. Aren't meant to share space with humans. Or maybe they are...they're kind of distressingly well-designed for it.

[zukosphoenix]

We used to live in a duplex that was down a long dirt road, into the woods, and there was a family of raccoons who lived in the attic, apparently.

Every night in the summer, the mother would scoot down the corner of the house and go out and do her thing, and one year, she had babies. Two were pretty good climbers, but the third one was a little chubby guy and he would consistently get halfway to the roof, then fall on his ass. Into my window box, no less.

After he squashed several clumps of petunias, I gave up and planted parsley. At least Mr. Chub had something to snack on while his mother bitched him out from the roof and his sisters laughed at him. :D

[persnickett]

AWWW. I hope you gave him a name. Like Chubbs. Or Petunia.

(omg u and T jr are even more adorable than this story)

[zukosphoenix]

*grin* I called him lots of things, including "Chubscout" and "BigButtBaby," but he was really adorable and always had this sheepish look on his face when he fell. I like to think he's working in a circus now.

Awwww ... kid was, I think, seven in that pic, and he's twelve now, but I don't look that different. Thanks bb!

[persnickett]

Chubscout made me cackle like Bellatrix Lestrange. It wasn't hot. Thanks for that.