08.30.09
Daily Musings
We have a lot of raccoons in our yard and after seeing Tom trap some I now know how to tell female from male. One little girl was in the trap, yes these are humane traps, and rolled over on her back when I walked up, it was hot out so I put ice cubes on the top of the trap. They started to drip and she reached up and pulled them through and started to eat them. She seemed so surprised that they were water. Maybe she thought they were rocks or who knows. Later in the afternoon she chirped and I took more over, she held her hands together to catch them through the holes. I tried carrots but she was not interested. Later Tom took the little girl out to the country to release her. I think he takes them all to the same place so they can find their family there also. If you call Animal Control they kill them so this seems a better alternative. They are cute with their robber masks.
