Strangling a Baby

Bridget woke me up this morning with her Frantic Voice™ indicating that I needed to come to the window and listen to the noise outside. From my perspective, at 6:30AM, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir could be outside and I wouldn’t care. However, I heard a distinct noise that sounded like someone stangling an infant in our backyard.

I tossed on some clothes as fast as I could and ran downstairs. Mojo was running from window to window trying to see the trap that we had set on Monday night. As I opened the front door he looked at me from the rear door as if to say, “Please, please, please open the back door!”

I darted outside and rounded the corner to hear the noise amplified by ten fold. As I got to the fence I could see the furry guy cowering in the trap. He stopped his chattering and lowered his body to the ground in fear. I felt sorry for him, but I looked to my left and saw that he had tipped the trash can over. My sympathy melted ever so slightly. He was still cute though.

I went over to our neighbor’s house and rang the bell. I knew that Sharon would be leaving for work soon and she would be awake. She came to the door in her housecoat and said, “Is everything alright?”

I asked her is Bob was awake and she indicated that he would be down and that I shouldn’t be so shaky as I actually wanted to catch something. Bob came over and we moved the cage to the garage and he told me he would take care of the critter once he got cleaned up and was ready to go out for the day. I’m happy he was able to do it and I’m grateful as I had no time since I had to get ready for work.

You’ll need to read Bridget’s post about this issue to get the full story, but we caught ourselves a thief. One down and inumerable more to go. We’ll continue to use the trap for the next two weeks, but yes, today I have captured a raccoon. Pictures below.

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3 Responses to Strangling a Baby

  1. Richard says:

    is he a baby, a small one or a well fed 30 pounder?

  2. AxsDeny says:

    Nah, was a medium size one. Couldn’t have been more than 15 pounds. Apparently people have spotted a larger one recently and at least 2 ground hogs. I’ll keep trapping until I run out of time with the trap loan. We’ll see what else I get ahold of. I’m more worried about bothering the neighbor that early in the morning to get rid of it. Since I have to be at work I can’t spend the time taking it where it needs to be. I wouldn’t mind doing it, but I can’t call off work to do so.

  3. Richard says:

    yeah, understandable. Congratulations on your first successful traping.. expedition? foray? Well good job anyway.

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