Racoon

I am in Texas and also see so much road kill but I have also seen many beautiful (and not so beautiful) live wild animals. I have seen racoon, opossum, armadillo, deer, javalina, wild hogs, skunks (yucky) both dead and alive. In my back yard I see squirrel almost daily and some times opossum.
By the way, when I hear that someone is from Missouri I don't think farmers, I think beautiful state and of course Branson.

I live in Washington and we live in a huge city and the racoons will just be out walking around. It's nuts. There was one that walked right infront of my slider so we got our son out of bed to see wild life. Lol They are weird and scary I think.

All the time. I can walk out my back door in the fall and see mom and her babies climbing trees and such. They come up to the house and kill my outside cats to be honest.

We have a reasturant locally that you sit on the deck in the summer and feed your scraps to the racoons. They're tame and come right up to the deck and eat. It's really a great attraction.

I don't know what you mean by the missconception that because you live in the midwest you're automatically live on a farm. Years ago I was in Philidelphia and (dressed differently) a person asked where I was from and when I said Nebraska, you could see their whole face just cave in.

She actually asked me if we were still fighting the Indians. I was shocked, then she went on that being in the big city sure must be different than back home because they had running water and electricity. What?!?!

I couldn't believe this. Doesn't anyone know anything? So I concocked a story that I was visiting an Aunt because the family didn't know what to do with me. My parents had been killed by Indians in a raid of our still and in all the bloodshed the still blew up the farm place.

I left her there in shocked horror....Man!

i used to live in Michigan,on the family farm no less. We used to see racoons all the time. Also deer,turkey,badgers,foxes and opossums. I think most animals in their natural habitat are beautiful. My husband just interviewed for a job in Missouri if he falls into place we will be moving there soon.

Many years ago my sister who has three boys and I decided to take our kids camping at a state park near where my parents lived. So we had a total of 6 kids and we borrowed my dad's van which was fixed up for camping and fishing and we brought a tent too for the kids! Before you go to bed....when you are camping you need to take all your garbage and throw it or put it up out of reach. The kids had tons of toys they brought with so they were laying around our camp site. Well we forgot the first rule and left our garbage sitting in a garbage bag on the picnic table! We awoke in the middle of the night to four racoons eating our garbage....one was playing with a beach ball and one was standing on a skate board! It was the cutest thing....but they can be very dangerous! We didn't have a camera but surely wished we did~!

I used to work in a State park in the mountains over by the California coast, and we had raccoons galore! There was one that I even named...Spook...because he would sneak up on me every night at the headquarters and scare the daylights out of me. He was huge, and he was also hunch backed and he would get stuck in the garbage can every time. I would hear the can rattling, and when I walked out all I would see were his back toes hanging on for dear life. I would have to lay the can down and pull the lid off so he could get his roly poly butt out of there. Of course, then I would have to share my apple with him as a treat. LOL

hello carolbee

wow! i know how that you feel about seeing the racoon. they are beautiful animals. a few years back, i was outside sitting on my Mom and Dad's back porch, it was late in the afternoon, on a nice summer day, and all of a sudden from up over the hill, as we call it, my folks' property is three acres and the back yard goes down into an embankment and if you slipped at the edge of it, no telling how far you would slid down it. but anyways, i was sitting there on the porch and all of a sudden a racoon came up and headed slowly towards me.:0 oh my god! was he or she ever beautiful! i sat really still, the racoon came within feet of me and i spoke to it and the racoon took off running back over the hill as fast as he or she could. beautiful thou.

have a wonderful day!

Hi Carol,
We live in the Northwest and have lots of racoons. Although they are cute and amazing to watch, be very careful as they can be vicious. A very large racoon attacked our large dog last year and did a lot of damage. Be careful.

When I lived in St. Louis I saw raccoons all the time. Running across the road or across my yard. Now that I like out in the middle of nowhere I do not see them anywhere. Now I see opossums, and turkeys, armadillos, and a BUNCH of deer.

yes, many times. I also live in missouri and we have our share of roadkill for certain - but it is also not uncommon for us to see raccoons... whole families of them, on our property trying to devise a way to get at the chickens. we've trapped many of the cute vermin.

I am astonished that my post as originally written was rejected by mylot. you can not use the acceptable shortened form of raccoon!