Raccoons

Hi; we have always had alot of raccoons in our little town, probably
because it has woodland on three sides.  Sometimes they get into garbage -
they are very good at opening garbage cans, and climbing into open
commercial dumpsters - but I have never heard anyone complain about damage
to their ornamental gardens, and not very much to their vegetable gardens.
Nesting in fireplace chimneys also happens, but the roof damage reported on
Shadegardens is the first I have heard of.  The openings to our sewers (the
drainage grates curbside in the streets) have a space large enough for a
raccoon to fit through, and I  have seen many of them going in there at
night, so maybe that usually keeps them from being desperate enough to
assail a human home.  My parents feed the raccoons, which doesn't seem to
have led to a higher population, perhaps because starvation is seldom an
issue with raccoons, and they remain subject to the diseases, predators,
etc. that imperil the lives of their less fortunate brethren.


Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Niles, MI  USA, Z 5/6
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