The raccoon party bus!

How awesome is this?

A photo of raccoons lining up for a bus on the MUNI #18 46 Ave line at the California Place of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco-by Plomo Media. So this is what raccoon rush hour looks like......LOL. I love it!!

photo by Plomo media

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The final stop before release.

Well, we did it. Laurie and I got the rest of my crew over to Mary's yesterday. We spent the day transporting the last 8 in 3 trips then cleaning and enhancing the cage and just having fun watching them play and enjoy their new big pen! Mary's neighbor happened to be ripping out bushes and cutting down trees so we scavenged lots of great shrubs, trees and grapevines to put in the cage for them to climb on and play with. It looks awesome....like they are out in the wild already!!!

Here's my boy Buster getting ready to go. No problems catching that mamma's boy. Seeker went with him...had to get him out because Mr. Protective was coming after us again when we were trying to catch some of the others.

Teddy, Growler & Tugger went next...no problems getting them to come to mom and putting them in a carrier. Stormy, Thunder & Huffer were the difficult ones, but with everyone else gone they all just hid in one den box. So we just screwed a board over the entrance so they couldn't get out and brought them over in that! Much less effort on our part, and less stress for them!

Here they are peeking out of the hole trying to figure out what the hell is going on!

And now...a look at the day in pictures...our new extended family of 15 playing and having fun together while they get used to their new home before their great adventure out into the wild!!

Raccoon Invasion!

Ok, I'm not sure where this is or what the story behind it is, but how amazing is this! There are about 34 coonies in this picture and god only knows how many that aren't even showing in the pic! And even more incredible.....they all seem to be getting along! (at least for the moment! haha). There must be food involved.....and so much of it that they don't have to fight over it.

I think I would start having chest pain if I went out back to my feeding station and saw that! I'd be thinking about how many would be having babies and how many I would end up with if something went wrong!

Raccoon City

The summer with this wild cast of characters was raccoon city around here! The kids grew into big healthy raccoons.

On a warm sunny day in September the door to their cage was opened and the wilderness became their new place to play. Blondie, Brownie, Belle, Whitey, Ringer, Lexi, Gaper, Nel Mezzo, Hoover and Paleface were free and loving every minute of it!

They spent a crazy first night out in the woods and the following morning when I went out to check on them, I found them all huddled up together at the back of my property in a hollow log along the ponds edge. How cute is this! (you can't see them all in this picture, but all 10 were curled up in there.)

And so their life in the wild begins..........