<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Are one of the main vectors of rabies. I agree a call to Animal Control is in order or, if they won't help--and they may not-- call a critter remover. Everyplace has someone who gets rid of raccoons, skunks, etc. Your Vet may have a number or Animal Control or a Shelter.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Animal Control is often under the auspices of the Cops, and usually they do dogs and cats and won't mess with wild animals, at least not around here.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Once when I had small children, a small yard and a tied up Basset (yes I walked him, too) we had a sick skunk on the sidewalk outside our townhome. We lived directly across the street from an elementary school and there was no question that the skunk was seriously ill, seizuring and falling and staggering. I called the cops and they said, basically, you have to be kidding. We aren't touching it.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">That time I was outraged. Usually I like Cops but this enraged me, that these schoolchildren were going to be coming home and walking past this probably rabid skunk.I raised hell. I screamed and yelled and threatened and finally they came out. They thought I was funny until they saw the raccoon seizuring and flopping around. Then they got worried. They sent everyone inside and shot it. Despite my admonition not to shoot it in the head, of course they did. Idiots. Then they wrapped it in plastic and took it away. It never blew it's scent, even when it died. I still think it was rabid.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Luckily our hound was inside during all this. Watching out the back window. He never said a word until the gun went off.</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">MomPerson to Nigel, Conley, Llewis and Cooper and I don't like Raccoons, either.</font></font></div>
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