On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:32:33 -0600, 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. The ones
> on the ground scampered all of about 6 feet away, waiting for me to
> leave so they could continue to eat the grapes, still green but very
> plentiful this year. [...]

In many places, coons are the chief reservoir of rabies -- and
going out in daylight is likely to mean they have it; they're normally
nocturnal.

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