Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Gloria P > wrote:
>
>> I just got home from an errand and opened the sliding glass door to the
>> patio to cool off the house (75 deg. inside, 71 outside) only to see SIX
>> raccoons in or around the grape vine on the overhead trellis.

>
> You need a large dog...


No thanks. I'm not a dog person. They are too needy and If I want to
expend all that energy and emotion, I want it to be a human being. ;-)

Three years ago I called Animal Control because there had been a big old
raccoon in the back corner of the yard for 24 hours, twitching once in a
while. Turns out it had distemper, communicable to dogs.

gloria p