tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post1882516001737277912..comments2023-10-31T12:16:03.276-04:00Comments on Harlequin: How to get a raccoon out of your fireplace....Harlequinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-55350583536215209652011-06-16T02:59:39.691-04:002011-06-16T02:59:39.691-04:00Christopher-- i like your descriptions of our fell...Christopher-- i like your descriptions of our fellow food chain inhabitants.... the opossum rendering was well done! in my area of the country, we have the badger.... which is also a bit of a vicious and tactical creature... apparently, if a badger can't eat it or fu*# it, he pees on it, so no other creature can get any enjoyment of it either ... <br />all things considered, i wouldn't want to be on the bottom of the food chain!<br />thanks for the visit and your nicely quirky comments.Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-45748895417435390282011-06-15T06:59:38.060-04:002011-06-15T06:59:38.060-04:00Raccoons in the chimney...I don't think of the...Raccoons in the chimney...I don't think of them as cute and fuzzy. I respect raccoons for a superior native intelligence and a hand eye coordination that overlaps with primates. They have their own agenda of course but are omnivores that rival ourselves, and so they tend to adapt to the conditions we place on our cities and towns. Only coyotes do better and opossums where epidemic doesn't destroy them. Depending on your attitude it is fortunate or unfortunate that disease also took the raccoons in my area. There are not many left, but squirrels abound. They too are clever opinionated critters.<br /><br />I object to opossums, who succeed through prolific progeny, not through native intelligence. That offends me. They are too dumb to really merit survival and they wouldn't if they weren't so able to reproduce quickly. The problem for me is opossums mimic smarter creatures and so they feel duplicitous to me, or more like they are unfinished half baked creatures-as evidenced by their unfinished snaggly dentition, more like broken rocks than actual teeth and their giant rat tails, half formed in them and finished in a more acceptable way in rodents.<br /><br />I fear for our position at the top of the food chain sometimes :Dchristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-89873507906271657962011-06-14T01:06:21.044-04:002011-06-14T01:06:21.044-04:00t/--thanks for the visit; tell me more about this ...t/--thanks for the visit; tell me more about this cocoon and the back molar.... it sounds like the kind of problem i could get into....my first thought is something that might dissolve it, while saving the molar.... hmmm. now you've got me thinking...<br />WM-- i think you're right about the wild life in detroit.... ALL of it!! thanks for this neat comment<br />Picses.. perfect comment! ha! <br />Intelliwench-- our instructor is canadian and has transposed the regionalisms into our instruction.... it seems that " ASL" is not as "A" as it appears.... lots of regional varieties. thanks for the visit.<br />Mr.C-- well, now i'll have to find out what the music was.... i take your point, though... anything that can drive away such a resourceful creature would likely drive out other resourceful creatures.... i'm getting a nice visual of you in a tree with the raccoon. :)Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-69975249298031794332011-06-13T19:43:58.572-04:002011-06-13T19:43:58.572-04:00Any idea what music was played? Raccoons are such...Any idea what music was played? Raccoons are such adaptable and tenacious creatures I'm afraid that whatever music would drive them away would also drive me away. I can see us both sitting in the same tree waiting for the noise to end.Mr. Charlestonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17497415823443875308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-36413783459233555202011-06-12T12:18:59.483-04:002011-06-12T12:18:59.483-04:00I wonder if this might work for squirrels in the a...I wonder if this might work for squirrels in the attic? <br /><br />intellikid is taking ASL next semester - I hope she loves it, too! But that brings me to wonder why you aren't learning CSL? ;-) No, really - there are enough idiomatic idiosyncracies between American and Canadian English, I would think there ought to be a CSL...intelliwenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01872666573909696493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-45400901566863820672011-06-12T08:55:00.026-04:002011-06-12T08:55:00.026-04:00what?what?Garthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15637097897454660933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-55771826847818524662011-06-12T06:18:29.845-04:002011-06-12T06:18:29.845-04:00Me thinks the wild life in Detroit has grown accus...Me thinks the wild life in Detroit has grown accustomed to the overly loud music and mayhem and they are here for the long haul.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111037399323673543.post-47546001548095717042011-06-12T04:03:07.631-04:002011-06-12T04:03:07.631-04:00dear harlequin,
this is very helpful information....dear harlequin,<br /><br />this is very helpful information.<br /><br />thank you.<br /><br />do you have any advice for dislodging a cocoon from a back molar?<br /><br />with thanks in advance,<br /><br /><3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com