attacked by raccoons!!

man, i hate it when the fuckin wildlife stops bein cute and turns on ya.

tonight i had just left the house with my little guy and we were trying to get into the car when a family of five raccoons came rarin round the corner right at us.

they had teeth bared and were snarling and were bearin down on us at a dead run...all five of 'em. the only weapon i had at hand was my shoulder purse, so i started swingin and yellin and tryin to get my kid out of their way. they didn't back down one bit.

the horror...

i think what got them excited was all the fireworks. this whole area is one giant fireworks show and the wildlife has nowhere to go.

my only injury is a twisted knee...but it hurts like hell to walk...and this after nursing it back to almost health after an injury a few weeks ago...now i'm right back where i started...sigh...

i liked the squirrels in my old neighborhood better.

 

that fireworks crap will freeq anything out. i can immagine several scenarios that might account for that in addition. what people need to realize is that other life forms are neither 'cute' nor with very few exception as gratuitously vicious as our own. but rather that individual members of any species are just as uniquely individual as any member of our own as well. in addition to their paranoia being part and parcel of their survival in everyday life.

those are the two things that humans most often overlook about individual members of any species, including their own.

most things in the wild stay as far away from each other as they can unless they are personal aquaintances or have other 'bussiness' with them. the ones that live very long that is. those that don't rather tend not to.

any billegerant individual is always daunting, of any species.
i would immagine that had been hiding, someplace you walked closer by then you realized and that was close enough to it to have been percieved by them as a threat.

it IS unusual behaivour for any creature, to approach us, or any other for that matter, not part of that particular individual's individual community. the extent to which our habbitats and their increasingly overlap do to the excess of our own population can only continue to make the probability of these kinds of incidents more common.

when i was growing up in the woods, where human population levels were much lower, even there then, then they are now everywhere, and of course in suburban development, i was never threatened by any creature.

the fist time that ever happened to me was in a city and it was a pair of ferral stray dogs.

well you did the right thing as much as i can tell just from what you said and my not having seen all the circumstances myself, which i can thus only guess at.

and quite probably, it was just the fireworks that had them that much more on edge.

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i questioned multiple people today, and i haven't met one other person who has ever been attacked by a pack of raccoons, or even knows somebody who has. everybody thought i was joking when i told them about it.

 

I've never had them chase me. I saw a racoon today on the path and he ran away from me. Stray dogs are the biggest problem for me.

All the firework noise must have gotten them in a bad mood.

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i was driving home one night late through a neighborhood and i saw a pack of about 40 of them, i was amazed

 

Did they bite you?

 

Since when do raccoons chase after people? I thought they're supposed to be afraid of people? Are you sure they were raccoons and not small dogs or something? Because raccoons do not chase people.... that just doesn't happen, unless they're rabid or you corner them or something.

 

My friend in highschool had a domesticated raccoon-it was abandoned as a baby-it was adorable, & it acted just like a dog. I guess they are cuter in a cage huh.

 

Beware the Day of the Animals is near



Hotwater

 

yeah, i think i just happened to step into their path when they were running scared from fireworks being set off right next to their home. just bad luck.

 

i know! but i've noticed that the raccoons around here aren't 'normal'. they walk right down the road in broad daylight...they don't act afraid of people alot of the time...and yes, they were definitely raccoons. i think they were just freaked out by extremely loud fireworks so close to their home...and i just happened to get in their path when they were running from them.

 

I propose that the government planted angry groups of racoons in the WTC towers that were trained to gnaw away at the columns just after the aircraft impacts to cause the towers to collapse.

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And most people would probably believe that if it's what the media told them. It's not much more far-fetched than the official story the public was given about what happened that day.

 

'Loose Racoons' is not any more far-fetched than some of the truther theories circulating the web that people believe without questioning.

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Raccoons piss me off for some resson. lol

 

we had the CUTEST little baby skunks in our yard last night. didn't smell too bad until mama showed up. then i had to shut the window.

 

Ive seen skunks stalk people as well.

all it takes is a litter around that they would be protecting, and in that raccoon scenario, sounds like the mother was protecting her babies.

 

animals have been getting more aggressive because their natural habitat has been lessening more and more....... take the hippo, for example. there have been numerous cases where a hippo has attacked and killed people, down in south africa. the habitat is getting smaller, and with the huge herds of hippos, its becoming too dense for them, the stress level is much higher, smaller male hippos hide away from the pack because the more dominant ones attack them regularly, for claiming their territory...... so, once they are in hiding, they are in total defense and attack mode...... and thats where most people have been getting killed, where they think they are far enough away from a pack of hippos.... mother hippos attack as well, if they feel their baby is threatened in any way.

 

we had some pretty outgoing (read: ain't skeered) raccoons on our places in durango. jst like sharks are beginning to see people as handy food, raccoons are seeing us as not a threat...so much, anyway.

 

this is just the tip of the iceberg

raccoons were in the ballot boxes in 2000 presidential election in florida scratching the ballots making the chad markings unreadable as well as hacking into computer voting machines swinging the election towards bush