10-4 good buddy~~~~~
They are cute..... but can be very dangerous !!!
Don't know what ole Davy Crockett had to go thru to get that tail he wore on his hat....teehee!
Those are very good pictures!!!!
Perhaps the cute little eye mask help tell their story...
Sorry Kirk, and Carol and Kids, that they are giving you a hard time.... but I'm glad you have help on the way...
Ya'll take care....
Have a HAPPY * * * HAPPY * * T H A N K S G I V I N G!
God Bless You and the Whole Family !!!!
susiesunshine

Yep had those little critters in my garage last spring. They are very devious indeed!!!! I am glad they found a new home too!!!! You don't want them hanging out there thats for sure...glad they will be moving on...(-:

They sure are cute, but boy are they destructive! We have to keep our garbage cans in the garage, and make sure the garage door is shut right at dusk, otherwise they like to try to get inside for the night. Not too long ago one tried to get in our chimney. My DH had to climb on the roof with the hose and spray it to get it to go away. Then he had to put chickenwire on the chimney to keep her out. I heard she was pregnant and trying to get in other neighbors' chimneys too. Oh well, I still love living with nature:)

All summer we had them AND possums! Don't know why the 'coons stopped coming, but the possums are still giving us problems. I chased one with a 2x4 the other night! Didn't really try to make contact, but sure scared him, because he hasn't been back, Just his buddies came.

Those raccoons sure do make a mess and can be quite nasty. Good luck relocating them.
When I first moved to my house we were invaded by skunks! Oh my..that stunk!
L

Ya don't have to live in the country to have racoons. We had one in our backyard in Queens, NY way back when. Actually, my neighbor said I must be a (good) witch because she had never seen so many birds (we had cardinals, baltimore orioles during migration, blue jays) since I moved into the neighborhood and now there were racoons. LOL We even had possums and you could see them hanging from the trees. She had been living there for 30 odd years and said she had never seen so much wildlife.
I have a picture of the racoon sitting in my oak tree somewhere... this was way before digi cameras let alone personal pcs. It's kinda hard to imagine a time these things DIDN'T exist!! Where would we be without our 'puters?? My goodnes, GJ wouldn't even exist!
But skunks??? Happy to say I've never had that pleasure!
Great pics, Kirk. Hope you find a way to rid yourself of that problem.
Cait

My brother, who lived on Cape Cod, had raccoons come every night to his back yard for food. I have video of as many as 15 out there at one time! He put food out especially for them. They couldn't access his bird feeders, because he hung those from a wire that ran between trees. Because the raccoons had their own food supply, the didn't bother the food stored in the garage or barn either.

It was fascinating watching them hold their food to wash it and eat. There was also a skunk that lived under the deck. It never sprayed or bother us...although it still made me nervous being out there at night knowing it was there.

The one bad thing was...my brother had to put wire mesh over his fish pond to keep the raccoons from eating the fish.

I really miss that backyard now that my brother is gone, and I had to sell his house. It was awesome! He had a sunken living area that was glass on 2 walls overlooking the backyard/wildlife area on one side and the water garden and horse corral on another.

Here, we have at least one raccoon and heaven knows what else living under our shed. The raccoon would raid our birdhouses in the spring, until we put baffles on the fronts of them.

Raccoons can certainly be very destructive...but boy...they sure are cute!! I was sitting in my swing one early evening, when 2 baby raccoons came walking accross my patio. I was stunned! They took off toward the pines...never to be seen again. At least not while they were babies!

~Sandy~

they are so cute.
great pics
debby