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No Sir ...That Is No Kitty Cat! It Is a Bandit Under The Home!

Recently while having an inspection performed on an older home , it became necessary to cut an access panel in the floor in order to examine the crawl space under the floors. Little did we know we would discov er a bandit under the home!

Once the contractor got a hole opened up, he turned on a flashlight and I noticed some small kitty prints in the dirt under the home and said something to the gentleman about them.

The man looked at me with a funny look on his face and said " No sir those are not kitty tracks....there is something much bigger under this house!

I said politely "no you are wrong ."

He then laughed and told me to look closer so I bent down in the hole. It then was ovious that he was looking at a set of tracks that I couldn't see earlier..... And this little bandit was definitely a little bigger than a kitty!

Posted by Trey Thurmond, College Station , Texas Homes on 11/06/2009 11:17 PM

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17 Comments on No Sir ...That Is No Kitty Cat! It Is a Bandit Under The Home!

NOV

Howdy there Trey

We sure do get to find different kinds of little ole critters under homes at times. The other night I went out to my Jeep and seen a movement under it, low and behold there was a Polcat. So I told it, you sure need to be on your way.

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Hey Trey,

We have-em too every now and then. You never know what you're going to see when you go outside after dark.

NOV

We regularly see racoons around our home and neighborhood. We have on occassion opened the drapes to find the vistors looking in sometimes even with their babies.

Trey,

I wouldn't want to share a crawl space with a raccoon! Or crawl in one they've used, they're not house broken.

Bill

Not having critters like that up here in the Rockies - I feel sorry for those inspectors in the south crawling under homes

Trey:

Finding a raccoon under a home is not the worse thing. At least they are cute. Home inspections can turn out some very interesting, if not scary, discoveries.

Trey living here at Canyon Lake the little "bandits" like to hang around the park area and always get into the trash cans looking for "goodies" to eat.

We have racoons around here, too. we're having to close our cats in at night so the racoons don't come in the kitty door. Even more fun to have under a house: javelinas- bigger, meaner, and stinky.

We are plagued by several families of Opossom who enjoy eating from our outdoor cat's dinner bowl. Luckily none of them have moved-in yet.

Hi Trey... hopefully y'all were careful. Racoons are huge carriers of rabies.

Trey, it seems raccoons and possums and other critters are around all over the place these days.

The poor thing was probably scared to death.

Trey, I have to say it is better to be looking at the tail end of a racoon rather than the back end of a skunk! Ask my husband...ooooweee stinky! He had to trap one and they do get mad when provoked!

Howdy there Trey

Just wanted to stop back by to read the new comment, you blog post had gotten.

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NOV

Trey: I haven't seen the parade of raccoons that I normally catch about dusk. They run into the garage to gobble up the cat food we leave for our favorite semi-feral Gray Kitty. I think they may been hit by cars, or moved on to scavange other areas.