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I heard they taste like chicken

Raccoons are evil. I left my garage open for a few minutes the other day and then someone drove up to drop one of my kids off and stopped at the foot of the garage. He pointed and out of the garage came a big fat raccoon. It walked not ten feet from me and right by the car absolutely fearless and arrogant. I've had them get on their hind legs and growl like a grizzly bear at me.

Here are a couple of pictures.

Track of what is probably a large coyote:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...SC01846_tb.jpg

This is the mouse house we slept in:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...SC01850_tb.jpg

Ahhhh... you must have smelt him too when he got home. Holy crap that guy has active sweat glands. I told him that I think he has hyperhydrosis. It got to the point that I couldn't hike downwind from him! :mrgreen:

That paw print was pretty impressive, larger than 5 inches as seen by the ruler on the leatherman. I have a 90lb lab that doesn't have paws that big.

I had a few choice words for the mice that night.

That's a bear paw print if I've ever seen one. Most likely a grizzly.

And I see we get a glimpse of your sissy sticks there too.

It doesn't much look like a bear track according to this website. Here is what they say a bear track looks like:
front paw
http://www.bear-tracker.com/blackf.gif
back paw
http://www.bear-tracker.com/blackh.gif

Compare it to a coyote track:
http://www.bear-tracker.com/coyf.gif