[Magdalen] speaking of critters...

[Jay Weigel]

In Wisconsin they used to sell a gadget called a "raccoon strap" that went
on the top of garbage cans. We just keep a concrete block on ours.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Louise Laughton <llaug2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> May Sarton wrote about raccoons that became enraged at her placement of a
> woodpile that blocked their access to goodies at her house and woke her in
> the night with the noise they made throwing the logs around. Our
> neighborhood in Syracuse was once jumping up and down with raccoons (they
> never met a garbage can they couldn’t open), but then they disappeared.
> Wildlife people said they died from distemper, not from rabies.