i went back to my shop yesterday morning, and saw these racoon tracks all over the shop. it stepped in oil, then i could see where it walked, it stopped at all the nuts and bolts i had on the floor, and this pile of tools.
So how does one go about training racoons to work on his car? I think thats a good idea. They work on it while your asleep..... I could imagine a fella can get a lot of work done that way. FWIW don't try to teach a dog to work on your car. They only know how to wash the tires...
I just wonder if the lil sumbitch can tell a 13MM from a 1/2" wrench-By looking at the nut.....I STILL CANT!
Had raccoon tracks on the hood of my roadster last year at Louisville. Seemed he thought that campground was his turf, not mine. I suppose I should be happy he didn't crawl into the tent......
A friend of mine used to have a pet Racoon that he raised from a baby. When you would go to bed you would have to hide all your jewelry and change or it would be gone in the morning. Every now and then he would find a pile of shinny stuff hid in a corner or under something, he would find stuff that he didnt even know he was missing!!
I used to raise racoons. Leave a bowl of pennys and shiny objects outside your shop and you wont have a problem any more with theft. They hoard shiny stuff... funny critters
[ QUOTE ] lol, that is pretty funny. must be a big shop if you don't notice the racoon-sized holes in the wall [/ QUOTE ] They don't need ahole, just leave the doo runlocked, they'll get in. My old man got all over my ass for losing tools when I was young, it was a damn racoon actually opening the shed door and taking the stuff...
I had a pet one that used to help us work on cars by stealing the lugnuts, not to memtion drinking our cans of beer. Cool little critter! He followed me to the bus stop one morning and I didn't know, some guy drove past and almost wrecked. He also snuck into my car, I was riding through town and looked in my mirror to see his head poked over the back seat like Kilroy.
Man, I've always heard they were super intelligent..... What do they do with the shiny stuff, just play with it? When I still lived in the whittier hills, I woke up one night because of this hellacious racket coming from my neighbor's garage, (door always open) The absolute BIGGEST goddamn racoon I'd seen in my life was trying to drag away a turkey pan...
i really cant imagine how exactly that thing could see in there, theres no lights, and all the doors were shut, but it still managed to find the shiny things. it looks like it was wandering, then would go straight for a pile, then wander and straight for another one. amazing
At my parent's house they have a lot of them. There was once a small flood through the yard, and it flushed a group of babies out. They came up to the house looking for their mommy, so I tried to lead them back down to their den... they took to me like I was their daddy or something... it was so funny, they just kept following me and barking. Right now, my dad knows someone with a big plot of land, and he lets them loose there, to train hunting dogs. Only with their type of hunting, they don't kill them.. it's all for the hunt, nothing more. Dad's caught a couple of them to give to this fella, I think it works out fine, they get open woods and plenty of food, and dad gets them out of his trash cans..
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