Update

I just wanted to update everyone regarding Jethro and his trapping of raccoons. The night after he trapped the first raccoon, I went out on the deck at just after dusk when it’s dark but not all the way and I saw two animals run from the deck to the woods. I strained my eyes to see what they were and there they were looking at me from the edge of the woods. They were going to wait for me to go back inside so they could come back and raid my bird feeders. I took a step down the stairs to get a better look when they turned and casually walked into the woods. They probably only went a few feet, just far enough to hide behind brush so I couldn’t see them. Jim wasn’t home at the time but when he got back I told him there were TWO raccoons out there. So he baited the trap.

A while later, I was upstairs reading before bed when Jim came rushing up to give me the play-by-play. He was freaking out because he said he went downstairs to look out the window of my scrapbooking room where he could see the trap from inside and lo and behold there was a great big possum out there sniffing around! Now, we’ve seen a variety of different wildlife at our house but never a possum. Jim concluded that we were drawing animals with the scent of our bait in the trap. So that was the end of the game. We decided not to set the trap because who knows what else we’d attract. Ya know, dar are coyotes in dem dar woods….