Category: Wildlife – Trapping

Well, I may not be able to outsmart a raccoon, but that doesn’t mean I’m a total trapping failure. Last Saturday I awoke to find that the door on the trap was closed, but through the bathroom window I couldn’t identify the occupant. I got dressed and walked through the back yard and around the… Continue reading This possum isn’t playing

Alert Gazette readers will recall that I was feeling pretty triumphant after the capture of not one, but two marauding raccoons who had been brutalizing our lawn. I’ll admit that I was sure the human race could be proud of the way I was representing it in the mammalian biped-vs-quadruped battle. Alas, pride goeth before… Continue reading Scoreboard: Raccoons – 2, Me – 2

Note: For reasons to be revealed later, you didn’t see this post. In fact, once you’re finished here, please extract your memory and destroy it, Mission Impossible-style. Thanks for your cooperation. Note 2: I conceived the title for this post when I briefly woke in the middle of the night, one of the few times… Continue reading Armadillo by Morning