Dang, never knew racoons were so BIG!!

[Free4Life11]

I live in a university apartment building, and the way it's set up, I have to go out my patio door to the main door to do my laundry. Well I was coming bac tonight and saw three big animals right by my patio door...they were as big as dogs! I had no idea they were so big...probably 2-3 feet tall. Looked HUGE to me. I made a lot of noise and they ran right into the storm drain....lol maybe they are like the mutant ninja turtles!! Crazy.

 

[megan4777]

Your racoons were eating steroids!!!
I live in the country (always have and my mom thought a skunk was a stray cat at our house last year and she pet it even though she's also lived in the country for 30 yrs!!)...and I've never seen a racoon as large as you're saying. DH and I saw a fox a day ago that was only like 3 feet tall.
I would take a sharp stick when you need to leave your apartment (make a lot of noise, too) and have the person in charge put a note up that says NOT to feed the animals.
Be safe and hire a maid to do your laundry (we can dream).

 

[simba928]

LOL.
When I read the title, I thought of my friend (an occasional DISer). She had a raccoon in her backyard and she was telling me about it. She goes "THAT THING WAS BIGGER THAN MY HEAD!!!!!" I just laughed at her. Then she told me that she meant to say it was bigger than her dog. She has a Japanese Chin and the dog is smaller than a cat. That really wasn't any better than the head comment.
Another time I was walking home from school and there was a raccoon at the end of my driveway. I thought it was a cat at first so I kept walking and I was going to bend down to see if it would come to me. I get about half way down and realize it was a raccoon. I turned around and ran up the street and called my grandma. I told her there was a raccoon at the end of the driveway and don't come outside. So what does she do? Out the door she comes and says "I don't see a raccoon" So she went down the stairs to see if she could find it. Ummmm, what if the raccoon was under the porch (alot of animals like to go under there, especially in the summer)

 

[Sparx]

I have a funny racoon story.
We did this career day thing at the local community college once. Well I walked into the bio lab and started talking to the prof. He had a racoon in a cage. It was very large and very still. I thought it was stuffed. I started to walk out and the thing rolls over on its back and bears its teeth at me.
Now you know in cartoons where cats jump up and hang from the celing?
who knew I could do that.

 

[DawnCt1]

When I was 12, my uncle in Maine used to have a pet raccoon. He found him as a kit and raised him. He would get up early every morning and make him bacon and eggs. He was huge. He loved to ride in his truck and he would take him down town on a leash. He was litter trained. I remember when I was sitting on the couch and "Bandit" wanted to see my face. He reached over and turned my head with his paw by placing it on my cheek! We thought he was the coolest thing. Bandit would play with their big lab.....until Bandit got tired and then he would just growl and the dog would slink away. I would bet that he weighed close to 50 pounds. Of course he was very well fed. I should add that they don't make the best of pets. Just interesting pets. When he got older my uncle had to let him go. He got mean. He would still come back to the house however and visit. He just couldn't live with the humans anymore. To think, we didn't even think about rabies. They are the biggest carriers of rabies, right up there with bats!

 

[DisneyMomOK]

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[mom2boys]

We have one of those rubbermaid storage chests on our side porch. It is the size of a large toy chest. I figured that was a safe place to store our cat's foods - it has a lid. Well I had noticed several times that the sides had busted out. I figured my kids were overstuffing it & forcing the lid down. Until one fateful night. DS say Mom something's in the toy box. Sure enough I looked out the kitchen door & there is a large racoon staring me in the face. He could get into the toy box without any trouble. He would bust out the sides to escape. He had the nerve to stand on the porch and stare at me as if I were the intruder. He was actually cute.

 

[Tina]

Here's my funny racoon story. When I was in my teens we had a pool in our backyard. One night my brother and I were out in the pool after dark (it was really hot and humid that night). The whole yard was dark except for the light shining out the back door of the house. We were just hanging over the edge of the pool when my neighbor's cat, Smokey, a very large Maine Coon came strolling through the yard. I started calling out to him but he just ignored me - which I thought was odd since he was such a friendly cat. He just kept strutting slowing across the backyard. It wasn't until he strutted into the light beaming out the back door that we saw it was not Smokey!! It was a HUGE racoon! He didn't seem to care much about us. He just strutted right on through to the neighboring yard. Over the years I saw him now and then. One afternoon I actually saw him strutting down the sidewalk in the middle of the day on a busy street.

 

[nwdisgal]

I live in a university apartment building, and the way it's set up, I have to go out my patio door to the main door to do my laundry. Well I was coming bac tonight and saw three big animals right by my patio door...they were as big as dogs! I had no idea they were so big...probably 2-3 feet tall. Looked HUGE to me. I made a lot of noise and they ran right into the storm drain....lol maybe they are like the mutant ninja turtles!! Crazy.

Yes they are! I had one in my garage once and he looked the size of a bear cub. I was gone in the other direction before the scream could come out .