Wednesday - August 23, 2006

Ahhh, The Smell of Pacifism - Updated

via the Geek

Cat-killing raccoons on prowl in west Olympia

OLYMPIA - Raccoons are cute, until they kill one of your cats.

That is what a west Olympia neighborhood is learning this summer.

Raccoons have killed about 10 cats in a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail at Harrison Avenue West and Foote Street Southwest.

Problem wildlife coordinator Sean Carrell of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife called the situation “bizarre, weird.”

OK, so we have this neighborhood that has a little varmint problem.  I know the readers of this blog know what the next step is.  Heck, any 12 year old with an once of sense knows what the next step is.

But this is Washington state.

“I’ve never heard a report of 10 cats being killed. It’s something we’re going to have to monitor,” he said. He added that they may have to bring in trappers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Typical liberal response: “let’s do a study.” Oy

The problem got so bad that residents Kari Hall and Tamara Keeton even started a Raccoon Watch after having an emotional neighborhood meeting attended by about 40 people.

“It was a place for people to mourn and cry,” Hall said.

What??  A neighborhood meeting to mourn and cry?  Good grief.

At the meeting, they encouraged people to stop feeding the raccoons. They also decided to keep their pets and pet food inside. And they decided to carry pepper spray to drive off raccoons that attack again.

Keeton and Pam Corwin have decided to have “cat coops” built so their pets can go outside and have some room to roam, with protection.

[snip]

“I’m afraid of them,” she said of the raccoons. “I carry an iron pipe with me” when I go out at night, she added.

[and]

“We were right there trying to get him off the cat,” she said. “The cat was screaming, and the raccoon was ferocious. My husband and a neighbor grabbed a shovel and a bat, and they were waving them until it took off. It was scary.”

Oh for heaven’s sake.  GET A .22 YOU MORONS!!!!!

The neighbors hired trapper Tom Brown, a nuisance wildlife control operator from Rochester.

Normally, Brown said, he can fix a problem in a few weeks, but he has set traps there for six weeks and caught only one.

Brown said he’s going to back off for a while until the food supply dries up.

He said his goal is to make them feel uncomfortable. Until that happens, they aren’t likely to leave.

I think I’m going to puke.  He wants them to feel uncomfortable????

“It’s like a freeway in the back yard,” she said. “It’s like clockwork. They come between 9 and 9:30 every night.”

“You’ve got to watch which ones are bad,” Hall said. “It’s not all of them. We just have to arm ourselves with pepper spray.”

Yeah, that will help, you neutered form of a man.  Six weeks.  This neighborhood has been terrorized by possibly rabid raccoons who have shown a bloodthirst for killing, apparently more concerned for the feelings of the critters than for the safety of their own pets and kids.  They are unwilling to do what needs to be done to rid them of the plague, even though they know exactly where they will be and when.

In the words of Kim DuToit: “I’m off to the range”

***Update***
Oh boy.  I did not realize they had a comments section on this story.  Here’s a gem:

I am one of the pet owners described in this story. I am also a lifelong conservative Republican and a proud WWII vet and I’d like to damn to hell each and everyone one of you southern hicks who are spouting off here. How dare you bring your moronic political rants into my neighborhood, with all your assumptions about Washingtonians and our way of life.

Olympia is a city. We are not some backwood hollow, where we can just come out guns ablazing.

You people need to take care of your own problems (and you certainly have a lot of them) and leave us to sort out our own.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/23/2006 at 07:22 AM   
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