Re: Back to nature / Nora

Nora is hilarious and she loves those little Dum Dum suckers, she'll knock
you down for one.  She looks like a Buddha coon.
I'll never forget one afternoon Jesse and I spent chasing her out back of
the house when she snatched one of the hens 'n' chicks plants out of a pot
on the back patio and took off w/ it.


On 10/4/07, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
>
> Nope.  Twice a year she is "not to be messed with" because she's moody as
> h*ll.  You drop the food off and run because she does not want people
> messing with her.  Other than that..she's good as gold.  I put Frontline on
> her in the summer months to keep the wee-beasties off.  She is quite fat and
> happy.  We built her a raccoon "condo".  She has an upstairs and downstairs
> with an old dead tree branch that lets her climb up there.  She has one of
> those "horse toys" dangling from the tree and she runs and hangs on it and
> chews on it.  The toy looks like a miniature version of those big rubber
> balls with a handle on top that kids sit on and bounce around with.  Keeps
> her from being bored.  This is her second one - she chewed the first toy up
> after 3 years.  She's a mess.
>
>
> james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Amazing. Did you have Nora neutered?
>
> On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>
> > Yeh..we have one right now that we've had since she was 3 weeks old
> > (bottle fed - I snuck her to work with me). She is 7 years old now.
> > When she was little, we had her in a cage in the house and she grew up
> > with the dogs. She was constantly opening up the dog's mouths,
> > digging into ears, tearing my potted plants apart. Very curious. I
> > have a friend at work who comes out to my place to spin fiber with me,
> > and she always brings Nora (the racoon) an apple or treat and she is
> > amazed by her soft little paws and how she pats us on the cheeks in
> > thanks for her nummies.
> >
> > WOW - it just dawned on me...I've known you all longer than 7
> > years!!! I got Nora after we moved to Oklahoma. That means I've
> > known folks on this list for almost 10 years now. Amazing!
> >
> >
> > james singer wrote:
> > They are smart--and curious. Many years ago, I went to a party at the
> > home of the publisher of the Hilton Head "Island Packet." One of the
> > young ladies--perhaps the publisher's daughter, perhaps not--had a baby
> > raccoon. For some reason, the animal got up on my shoulder almost as
> > soon as I got there. It spent most of the evening examining my ears,
> > first one, then the other, then back to the first again. I have no idea
> > why. The woman I was with, who was the Washington correspondent for the
> > Packet, thought it was trying to discover if it could see all the way
> > through.
> >
> > On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> >
> >> HOW FUNNY. Racoons are SMART critters. They will watch and follow.
> >> I had a friend who had a cat door that went into her garage, and then
> >> a door that went from the garage into the house. One morning (2:00
> >> a.m.) she heard all this noise in her laundry room. A racoon had
> >> followed her cat indoors and was eating the cat's food and the cat was
> >> upset. She had to call animal control to get the racoon out because
> >> it was quite happy in there and was not in ANY hurry to leave. LOL.
> >>
> >>
> >> james singer wrote:
> >> So last night, we watched a movie. Our TV [we only have one] is in
> >> the
> >> sun porch/Florida room. About halfway through the movie, Bashie came
> >> to
> >> the back door, stood on her hind legs and mewed for entrance, I let
> >> her
> >> in. A few minutes later, Squinty did the same thing and I let her in.
> >> Then a few minutes later there was a young raccoon at the door,
> >> standing on its hind legs, and looking in at us. I did not let it in,
> >> but I thought about it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >> Hardiness Zone 10
> >> Heat Zone 10
> >> Sunset Zone 25
> >> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>
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> >> Jesse R. Bell
> >>
> >> "All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.1 N, 82.4 W
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> > Heat Zone 10
> > Sunset Zone 25
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> > Jesse R. Bell
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> > "All that we are is a result of what we have thought." - Buddha
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
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> Heat Zone 10
> Sunset Zone 25
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> Jesse R. Bell
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> "All that we are is a result of what we have thought."  -  Buddha
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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