Results tagged “raccoons” from South Bay Pets

Here's a story about a real masked bandit.

Seems a courthouse in Atlanta had found evidence of an intruder -- a half-eaten apple, some footprints.

The break-in last week at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building was duly reported.

The intruder made no effort to cover his tracks across a stack of federal memos in the 14th-floor office. When the judge started calling his staff and others to exampine the scene, the evidence was conclusive: The perpetrator was a raccoon.

In the days to come, other signs turned up -- stolen chocolate chip cookies on the 10th floor, a missing sandwich on the ninth floor, a packet of dried soup snatched from the 23rd (!) floor.

A "wanted" poster went up along with a "raccoon crossing" sign on the judge's door, according to the Associated Press story posted on LA Unleashed.

The suspect was finally nabbed by using a tuna-baited trap above the ceiling tiles in federal bankruptcy Judge Paul W. Bonapfel's office.

The raccoon was named "Russell" by office workers -- in honor of the building's namesake.

"We're going to see if we can get him turned loose on a farm somewhere," said Robert Perkins, the building's manager. "We're going to take him a long way from this building."

It was a good life while it lasted.

Toenails scampering across the roof before dawn can mean only one thing. Raccoons. We've have them before and it is, after all, nesting season for these cute but pesky -- and sometimes destructive -- night marauders.

Having two border collies doesn't help. Frustrated, they bark and follow the creature's route from room to room, hoping to herd it into place but so far with little success.

Josh, the other poster on this blog, has offered to "rent" out his baying coon hound, Rocket, at $20 a night. Yeah, that'll buy us a peaceful night's sleep. 

Any advice out there?

For a funny read, check out this raccoon and dog story.