Fun Raccoon Facts

We learned some interesting facts about raccoons this last weekend.

• Dogs don't like raccoons sleeping in their dog-boxes.
• Raccoons don't like to play with dogs while cornered in a dog-box.
• Dogs don't like to play with raccoons while raccoons are cornered in a dog-box.
• They bare their teeth and growl: both.
  
• Raccoons like peanut-butter sandwiches.
• You can use a peanut-butter sandwich to lead a raccoon to a live trap.
• You can use a peanut-butter sandwich to lead a raccoon to a live trap until you grab it by the head and try to shove it in.
• Raccoons don't like to be grabbed by the head.
• Dogs like peanut-butter sandwiches.
• Dogs won't go into a raccoon infested dog-box for a peanut-butter sandwich.
  
• A shovel doesn't work well to try to pull a raccoon out of a dog-box.
• A garden rake works well to pull a raccoon out of a dog-box.
• Dogs like to play with raccoons when they are not in their dog-box.

I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.

A side note: We are not typically cruel to animals, but when a predator comes around that might threaten our chicken, turkey and guinea flock, we need to do what we can to protect them. Except maybe for the guineas. I could probably let a few of those go.