Thread: Robert

Originally Posted by syslight

oh no, it is a skunk!

well actually i was wrong it is only a raccoon skull

So GW, is that the final decision, Robert is a racoon?

If he isn't a bobcat, will his name remain Robert?

Or will he be renamed Rocky?

If Robert was a parrot, it must be renamed POLLY ! even if it won't be eatin' crackers any more.

Oh I soooo much like the MP (by the way John Cleese used this same part of the Parrot sketch during Chapman's burial)

Thought Rocky was a squirrel!!!!

His name is Robert. That is what it says on his pedestal. Thus far he has complained very little about being called Robert so if it's alraight with him, it's okay with me too.

Originally Posted by icedog

So GW, is that the final decision, Robert is a racoon?

yeah, that was the final conclusion (oh thank god someone finally got it , thank you Syslight)

congratulations friend, you dragged a dead coon out of the pond (where he probably drown after being hit by a car on his way to eat one of your ducks)
cut his head off, and put it on a pedestal (after smelling it for some time)

A fine end and one that any varmint would be proud of.

I thought the tiger thing was quite amusing but really expected someone to get it sooner that that.
(radioactive chipmunk? )

Hope you are happy to know what Robert is.

Might find a local trapper in the area (or simply ask and I'll show you some pics of a kill style, dog safe type trap), or set out a big pile of table scraps and wait up with a rifle and a spotlight. (in the hands of a competent assistant, preferably a pretty one)
I know a rifle is overkill, but so was my first post.
Or if you dislike coons as much as me then there is the heavy stake, 60lb fish line,cow bell , #4 treble hook, and a hunk of chicken and the shotgun.
The ONLY way to wingshoot coons. (man do they flop around)
Don't worry, he won't suffer long !!
(assuming you can get him in 5 shots while he is tied to a stake)

Not a real big fan of coons.

Nice to meet you IceDog, my name is G.W.

Whatever........











.... (Lou would have wanted me to have it)

I didn't drag him out of the pond. I pretty much ignored it until someone/something else did the dragging. Now knowing Robert is a coon my original scenario makes even more sense. I know we have a few coyotes on the property (80 acres of forest) and I think a hungry coyote would bit mr. Racoon in his little face. Had Basil gotten out he'd have made short work of them both but I wouldn't want that to happen.

I am still surprised by the choppers on that little skull.

We'll be doing another one real soon. I'll be cooking his head tomorrow or the next day.

yeah well Dog-V-Coon isn't normally the slam dunk you might think