http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/07/20/city-raccoons/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:53:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/07/20/city-raccoons/comment-page-1/#comment-2201 J Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:15:45 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=554#comment-2201 That's a funny story. I grew up in Brentwood Boro and my family had a couple close encounters with raccoons. My dad was a contracter and as such had rented a garage about a block from our house to store most of his tools and materials. One summer he discovered that a coon had made a den up in the ceiling of his garage. I forget if it had babies or not (this was more than 15 years ago), but he had to call animal control to get it removed. A few summers later my mom was awoken one night by the sound of something falling down the chimney leading to the fireplace in her bedroom. Fortunately the fireplace was nonfunctional and the chimney closed off. She had a person come and take a look down the chimney and they said there was a distinct tunnel through all the dirt and debris that had collected in it and that a raccoon and likely fallen down the chimney and later climbed out. We had screens installed on the tops of our chimneys after that. That’s a funny story. I grew up in Brentwood Boro and my family had a couple close encounters with raccoons. My dad was a contracter and as such had rented a garage about a block from our house to store most of his tools and materials. One summer he discovered that a coon had made a den up in the ceiling of his garage. I forget if it had babies or not (this was more than 15 years ago), but he had to call animal control to get it removed. A few summers later my mom was awoken one night by the sound of something falling down the chimney leading to the fireplace in her bedroom. Fortunately the fireplace was nonfunctional and the chimney closed off. She had a person come and take a look down the chimney and they said there was a distinct tunnel through all the dirt and debris that had collected in it and that a raccoon and likely fallen down the chimney and later climbed out. We had screens installed on the tops of our chimneys after that.

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