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A Hunting We will Go

5/3/2012

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A Hunting We will Go Written May 3, 2012 5:52pm

Well, add a new thing I need to do now....  The other night the chickens out front were squawking and I got up to see what was going on.  Ray had already left for work so I couldn't holler at him to come and help.

Out front was a fairly big oppossum.   Stupid oppossum, didn't it know it was supposed to run away?  Quickly run away?  Not wait for me to go inside, find a gun, go out and look again.....stupid oppossum still eating eggs,  go back in and find the rifle?   Not my favorite thing to do.  I knew if he wasn't going to run away when I was outside, he wouldn't be chased off by my duck who was sitting on eggs right next to it.

So last week, we had a raccoon somewhere outside.  The dogs were whining and wanting to go outside so I grabbed the gun and the flashlight.  Didn't see anything so I put the dogs back inside.  I walked around back and saw something in the woods jump down and take off running.  It's really hard to hold a huge spotlight and fire a rifle at the same time.  LOL!

Friday & Saturday Rheanna had a friend spend the night.  Friday night they stayed up until after 4:00....silly girls and  Saturday they went to bed at a fairly decent time.  Sometime after Ray went to work, I heard an awful sound on the back deck.  Yeah, same routine, grab a light, grab a gun, throw on the crocs and run out back.  Fired off several shots but didn't hit the raccoon.  I went in to google the sound I heard and it wasn't too long the girls came out.  Rheanna's poor friend was so freaked out.  Ooops, I really didn't think they would hear it.  Rheanna usually doesn't even wake up when there are critters outside.

I'm fairly good at shooting at a target, I really don't and have no desire to hunt so obviously I haven't got the raccoons yet.  We set a live trap and put snap traps inside so we didn't catch any of our animals.  I heard one making a loud racket but by the time we got outside it was gone.  There was a little fur in the snap trap but it had gotten loose.  Luckily I haven't seen or more importantly heard them.  ;o)  

Just another fun time at the Wachter house!
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