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First off, for those who haven’t noticed, I have started a sort-of photo blog on facebook. The link is http:\/\/nmu.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=2050907&l=71fa7&id=40602003<\/a> (Also try here…)<\/a> [Editor’s note: it looks like the photo of the raccoon in the trap was removed] (it’s public, so anyone can link to it and see!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest pictures were of the raccoon that I just caught in the live trap. I feel the need to expand this story, in all of its tragic twists and turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It all begins about three weeks ago. I’ve planted most of grandma’s flower pots and decided that I needed to start a potted garden. A quick trip to the flower shop and I’m the proud owner of yellow bell peppers and some red cabbage. I’ve never grown vegetables, so I tried planting four each in two long pots which set nicely on the bumper of the trailer. I regularly move the pots off the bumper when the wind picks up so they don’t get tipped over or anything. I forgot to move them back up and the next thing I know, all four of my cabbage have been eaten right down to the stem!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Young cabbage plants eaten to the stem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know what it was (i assumed rabbits), but I had two cabbage planted in a taller pot so I assumed small animals wouldn’t be able to climb up to get it. Later on, Gramps and I are filling the water tank when we see this big ol’ woodchuck just trot by. Neither of us had a gun at hand so he’s free and clear. I walk around the trailer to check the water gauge and i realize that one of the cabbage from the tall planter has been eaten up!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To cut to the chase: I now have a .22 hand gun (which has a difficult aim) inside the trailer and a livetrap in my patio-space. There wasn’t anything but veggies in the trap, but a damned raccoon got caught in there. Her partner was in the pine tree up above. I was going totally FPS style with the flashlight in one hand and the revolver in the other. I shot at him about four times and didn’t hit. I was aiming right down the barrel, so I’m sure somethings wrong with that sight. Hunting is pretty exciting though, especially at 1 am when you’re running around in your boxers. Thinking about it now, nothing could be more masculine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Live trap baited with carrots…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current Mood:<\/b> \ud83d\ude42lovedCurrent Location:<\/b> Wheatland, MI<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, for those who haven’t noticed, I have started a sort-of photo blog on facebook. The link is http:\/\/nmu.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=2050907&l=71fa7&id=40602003 (Also try here…) [Editor’s note: it looks like the photo of the raccoon in the trap was removed] (it’s public, so anyone can link to it and see!). The latest pictures were of the raccoon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,18,19],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-friends-family","category-moods","category-opinions","tag-farm","tag-guns","tag-racoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}