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Re: the growl

Posted by **backbeat** on Jul 15, 2013 at 5:57:24 PM:
In Reply to: the growl posted by **pycb** on Jul 15, 2013 at 12:20:03 PM:

*well I found out what's taken up residence under my deck.............
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*A couple of weeks ago I had gone out to sit on my deck at night & heard a growl. Willingly adding a chromosome I simply went girlish & ran in the house.
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*Last night I went out the backdoor onto the deck around 11 & startled something off the deck. Which immediately started to growl.
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*Deciding I had added enough chromosomes between the last time this happened & my stint in Florida with the alligator, I was going to confront whatever it was.
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*So.....
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*I went into the garage & grabbed a baseball bat determined that I was going to scare off or take out whatever was growling at me.
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*Of course this depended a lot on what "it" turned out to be.
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*Fearlessly I turned on the back light & began pounding the baseball bat on the deck. On the fence. On the space between the deck & the fence.
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*I think there was some grunting involved.
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*No reply to my challenge.
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*So I sat back down.
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*GROWL!
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*Directly below me!
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*I stood up - bat in hand & muttered "Come On".
*I had to repeat that as it came out at least an octave higher then it should have.
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*"COME ON!!!"
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*"It" chose to remain silent.
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*Sat back down again - bat at the ready.
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*Then I heard it.
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*Mewling...
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*Like the kind of sound my daughter's 3 legged cat (Tripod) makes when it wants attention.
*This was coming from about 5 feet from where I was sitting. To my right for those of you taking notes.
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*I glanced over & saw what looked like a head. Which promptly retreated back under the deck.
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*I walked around (bat raised).
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*The head came back up again & mewled.
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*I tensed ready to swing the bat.
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*Another mewl & it revealed itself.
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*A baby raccoon.
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*I lowered the bat. I'm not about to bash in the head of a little, defenseless (and though I hated to admit it) cute baby raccoon.
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*So I "nudged" it with the bat hoping to scare it & make it run away. Instead it mewled again & started walking toward me.
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*It wanted to be friends - I think.
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*That was when I heard "the growl" again. Much louder . Much more meaningful.
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*It was a warning.
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*An "I'm going to spring at you in about two seconds & rip your throat open" kinda growl.
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*Figuring one can never have enough chromosomes & not really in the mood to tangle with a pissed off mama raccoon in the dark............
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*I fled!
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interesting - i've never had a raccoon growl at me and we have lots of them - right now we have a family of 6 babies that come down one tree, go way up the next and play for an hour and then come down and rummage - even had one that used to come in the back door to eat the cat food!! kept the door closed for a few weeks 'til he/she got the route out of their system.

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