Moving a young raccoon

[Dftodd]

Up here in some parts of PA, it could be brushing tooth.

We got some folks west of here that think possum is “the other white meat”.

Thats not just a PA thing. There are folks around here with the same amount of teeth and a fondness of possums

 

[Dftodd]

I gots 3...

2 on the top and 1 on the bottom.

Easier to eat corn on the cob...

I got half of mine still. All my front teeth to the fangs, my upper right molars and lower left molars.

Makes chewing interesting.

I really need to go get partials

 

[Dftodd]

PA has been described by many as, "Philadelphia and Pittsburg, with Alabama in-between."

I'm not sure if that's unfair to PA, or unfair to Alabama, but it gets the point across.

What's Ohio's excuse????? (I have family in Ohio or from Ohio)

But it seems that the people I've worked with from Ohio seem to all have a lack of sense....

I brought up needing a board stretcher once while working for a fence company. My boss quickly shut me down and to not bring one up.

Come to find out, one of the other guys mentioned needing one when the dude from Ohio did the inch trick (marked on the wrong side of the inch mark) and cut the board short.

This dude had seen on, explained how it worked, and wouldn't let it go for a week

This is also the same guy who I zip tied his drive shaft and got punked at the speedy lube place instead of looking under his truck

Another dude i worked with from Ohio. Got his boot wet. Instead of swapping out both boots, he just switched out the wet boot for a dry one. Then spent the day walking around cockeyed since the boots had different tread sizes

 

[RayIN]

Many years ago my cousin and i took our families camping at a nearby state park. Raccoons got into our coolers the first night, and watched one flip a garbage can lid off next morning.
We decided to trap a raccoon in one of those garbage cans. We sneaked over and slammed the garbage can lid on tight, trapping the coon.
A short time later here came the garbage truck. A man jumped off the rear of the truck, grabbed the can and pulled off the lid.
That mad coon came boiling out of the can and we thought the man was going to have a heart attack.
Well, it was funny at the time.

 

[Sigarms]

PA has been described by many as, "Philadelphia and Pittsburg, with Alabama in-between."

I'm guessing the reason why those two cities are used are not only because of population, but because people (from my own personal experience living in Pennsylvania) really don't know where anything is at on each side of the state (East / West).

You ask a local in NC where Asheville, Boone, Greensboro, Burlington, Hendersonville, Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, Greenville, Wilmington, Outer Banks, Emerald Isle or Cary is, there is a good chance everyone knows what area your talking about.

Go to Pa and ask a local where Washington, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Upper Darby, Abington, Altoona or Meadville is, there is a good chance people might get some of the cities/towns on their side of the state, but in general, most people on the East Side of Pa might know where Pittsburgh is and people on the West side of the state might know where Philly and Harrisburg are at, but after that, you'd be pushing your luck.

Even when I lived in central upstate NY, people in the state seemed to have a better comprehension of where cities and towns were in the entire state vs just one side vs the other side in the state.

I could be wrong, but I honestly think part of the issue in Pa is everyone who live in the East portion of the state generally goes to NJ Beaches for Vacation (or NY or NC LOL) and people in western portion of the state either go Ohio or NY for vacation. It doesn't seem like people who live in Pa ever travel to either side of the state for whatever reason.

My entire family lived in Eastern Pa off the boat in 1900's as coal miners, I graduated college from State college, worked both in Pittsburgh and Philly, so I consider myself somewhat familiar with the state, and only my own experiences. That said, knew NOTHING about Cedar Point (Ohio) or the lake Erie region until I moved to Western Pa, so I was just as bad. Took my one boy to the finger lake region in NY from NC, and for as much as I thought I knew where everything was at in Pa, it was the first time I ever drove through the Wellsboro area.

What's funny is I had to look because I would have bet NC's population is greater than PA's, but I was wrong.

 

[Hay Dude]

Is anyone like “whatever happened with the coon”?

 

[Sigarms]

Read post #161, hopefully it answers your question

 

[WinterDeere]

I could be wrong, but I honestly think part of the issue in Pa is everyone who live in the East portion of the state generally goes to NJ Beaches for Vacation (or NY or NC LOL) and people in western portion of the state either go Ohio or NY for vacation. It doesn't seem like people who live in Pa ever travel to either side of the state for whatever reason.

Yep... at least half true. Most of the population is in the eastern end of the state, and very few of them every see any reason to head west for vacation, work, or anything else. Central PA is beautiful, but there is very little in the way of good jobs, money, or entertainment. A day trip to Hershey Park or sending their kids to Penn State University might be the only time many in the east have ever ventured into the middle of the state.

But to avoid going too far off topic, PA has a stable population of racoons, varying 0.5 to 1.6 coons per acre according to state statistics. And then there's this:

Video of raccoon on a leash in Philadelphia goes viral

In Fishtown, one man has become a full-blown Instagram attraction because he has a raccoon for a pet. Add to that, he famously walks it around on a leash.

6abc.com

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
When I was in 1st grade, a classmate's older brother brought their pet raccon in for show&tell, and walked it through the classroom on a leash. Of course at that age, it seemed like the coon was the size of a yearling black bear.

 

[Sigarms]

What I find interesting is that I automatically don't kill things on site just because they are on my property, but I'd like to think I'm smart enough to understand that you don't make wildlife pets.

At least in NC, you do need to apply for a license to "hold" wildlife.