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CITY CRITTERS: RACCOONS!

POSTED May 26, 2009 BY Bob Kronbauer
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It’s their city, we’re just living in it, and our call for City Critters: Raccoons has now come to a close. Below is a gallery of all the entries we received, we’re drawing names out of a hat for the winners of the giveaways provided by Keep Shoes and Addict Clothing, as well as a V.I.A. t-shirt pictured middle below. Thanks everybody! Stay tuned later this week for the next City Critter call…

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Photo by Adam Hicks:

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From Janine Prevost:
Hey, here is a photo sequence: Raccoon Eating Out of Nest, High in A Tree. He is a bad boy, laying in the nest to take at bath after eating its contents. I thought it was weird to see one so high up in an empty tree like that, but I guess racoons don’t folllow any rules. So cute!!!

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From Nikki Reimer (www.nikkireimer.com):
Caught these 4 guys at Stanley Park on Thanksgiving Weekend. Some crazy tourist was feeding them cat food, which they gobbled up, all smushed together in a nursery, for safety? That’s what I group of raccoons is called: a nursery. I googled it.

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6 Responses to “CITY CRITTERS: RACCOONS!”

  1. p spencer Says:
    May 26th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    i tried to get one in stanley park the other day..but he ducked out before i could shoot the pic.

    I can honestly say I’ve never seen one swimming like the one in the pic above. cool photo.

  2. Melodie Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    This… is delightful. Thanks.

    A family (or nursery–thanks Nikki Reimer!) of raccoons lives in a shed behind my building, and as I live in a “garden suite,” I see them all the damn time, coming over to tease my cat and try to steal my hot dogs.

    As someone noted in your post, raccoons think they are above the law. It’s the outfits, you know?

  3. sr Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    i caught 5 raccoons trying to jump my cat once… she looked terrified… another time there was one sitting on the back of my car, and he would not get off… I eventually drove away and he fell off…

  4. Lynne Says:
    June 10th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    I live in Coal Harbour on a very busy main street and was shocked a couple of weeks back when an enterprising raccoon took advantage of a nearby tree and my open livingroom window to take refuge from a rainstorm. You wouldn’t expect to have such a close encounter with a wild animal in the middle of one of the most densely populated urban areas in North America but wonders never cease. He seemed more annoyed that I asked (screamed!) for him to leave than actually afraid of me!

  5. Nikki R. Says:
    June 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    @Janine Prevost, love that sequence. I’ve been researching crows lately, and one book says that it’s quite common for raccoons to climb up into a crow’s nest, eat the eggs, and then take a nap in the nest! Buggers! I love them ‘cuz they’re scoundrels.

  6. Remi Chretien Says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    Witnessed a whole family of Raccoons strolling along the top of my fence last year, two big ones and two kittens. Cute as hell, I love having these neighbors, it’s one of the things that makes Vancouver great.

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