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As posted earlier I scored a dividing head along with a surface grinder I bought. The dividing head was in the garage waiting to be cleaned.
About 30 minutes ago, I heard a crash out in the garage. Upon opening the door from the house into the garage and turning on the light, I was greeted by a family of baby raccoons and their mama. The babies were on top of my garbage pail and on my chest freezer and were too scared to jump down. They started trilling as soon as they saw me and seemed to try to come inside. Mama, standing guard, charged me... I quickly closed the inside door before she reached me. I opened the door a bit and one by one scared the babies into jumping down and leaving with mama who kept charging.
After they were all out in the driveway, I fully entered the garage. My cat, who saw me come out, ran up to greet me and Mama raccoon wasted no time in attacking him He held his own for a bit, but he's an old cat (17 years old) and mama racoon got on top and was throwing him a beating. I tried yelling, clapping, and kicking mama (in my stocking feet) to try and get her off the cat to no avail. She was kicking his butt. Finally in desparation, I grabbed the closest thing, the dividing head, and tossed it at mama. It hit her square and she couldn't get off my cat fast enough. She ran away squealing. I sincerely hope I didn't hurt her badly as she's got young uns to take care of.
Now I just had to find the cat: he was long gone. I went next door and me and my neighbor finally found him: eating! He seems fine. No blood, just missing a teaspoon of fur. He's been immunized against rabies although I doubt very much mama is infected: she looked healthy and was obviously able to reproduce...
I really hope mama isn't seriously injured. Thankfully, my cat isn't.
Lessons learned:
1) Close the garage door after dark.
2) Never get between a mama and her babies.
3) A dividing head makes a good weapon. :whistle:
BTW, no damage to the dividing head.
John
About 30 minutes ago, I heard a crash out in the garage. Upon opening the door from the house into the garage and turning on the light, I was greeted by a family of baby raccoons and their mama. The babies were on top of my garbage pail and on my chest freezer and were too scared to jump down. They started trilling as soon as they saw me and seemed to try to come inside. Mama, standing guard, charged me... I quickly closed the inside door before she reached me. I opened the door a bit and one by one scared the babies into jumping down and leaving with mama who kept charging.
After they were all out in the driveway, I fully entered the garage. My cat, who saw me come out, ran up to greet me and Mama raccoon wasted no time in attacking him He held his own for a bit, but he's an old cat (17 years old) and mama racoon got on top and was throwing him a beating. I tried yelling, clapping, and kicking mama (in my stocking feet) to try and get her off the cat to no avail. She was kicking his butt. Finally in desparation, I grabbed the closest thing, the dividing head, and tossed it at mama. It hit her square and she couldn't get off my cat fast enough. She ran away squealing. I sincerely hope I didn't hurt her badly as she's got young uns to take care of.
Now I just had to find the cat: he was long gone. I went next door and me and my neighbor finally found him: eating! He seems fine. No blood, just missing a teaspoon of fur. He's been immunized against rabies although I doubt very much mama is infected: she looked healthy and was obviously able to reproduce...
I really hope mama isn't seriously injured. Thankfully, my cat isn't.
Lessons learned:
1) Close the garage door after dark.
2) Never get between a mama and her babies.
3) A dividing head makes a good weapon. :whistle:
BTW, no damage to the dividing head.
John