Ricky Raccoon:The Wildlife Saga Continues...

So after the surprise that we had a pheasant living on our property we were even more surprised to learn that we had another creature living on our property...well I should say IN our property really. About three weeks ago when my parents were visiting we noticed that a piece of "soffet" (-piece of siding like plastic under the roof overhang) had come loose. We figure that the wing had just gotten to it and so just popped it back into place, this happened a few time until one night as Mark was walking past the back door and saw two beady little eyes staring back at him from the soffett- We had a Raccoon living in our soffet/attic!! You would really think we live in the stick with all this wildlife.
So we called for help and along came a professional trapper to set up a trap with Marshmallows for bait. Well to make a long story short the Raccoon managed to steal the marshmallows from the trap miraculously without getting caught for about two weeks but then he succumbed to the Chicken wings and Chicken & Rice casserole we put in there on Tuesday night and he was trapped! So here are some pictures of poor Ricky Raccoon (sorry about the poor picture quality- we didn’t want to terrify him with camera flashes!) Enjoy.

Some of you may be wondering why we titled this bog “The Wildlife Saga continues…” Well when we got up this morning we noticed that the soffet had come loose AGAIN! Can you believe it, we have ANOTHER Raccoon living up there! Word must have gotten out that the spot was vacant! So we are back to the trapping stage…I guess I will be making Chicken & Rice casserole again for supper and bait. If anyone has any other tips for Raccoon extraction please let us know!