"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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DSK wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
.... (father, mother, grandfather) would have been responsible for
keeping me from doing something idiotic.


Too bad they're not around to keep you from doing idiotic things now;
like feeding wild animals in your back yard.

DSK


Ha! Some friend of my father's found two tiny raccoon kits while out in
the woods. Their mother was dead. He brought the kits to my father, who
bottle-raised them and built a substantial indoor-outdoor pen for them at
his store. They were pets for a number of years, and then spent their
retirement being spoiled at a petting zoo. The pair were terrific pets. I
used to take them on leashes to the beach, where they'd cavort on the
sandbars and in the little water channels that would form between them at
low tide. They were both house-broken, by the way. Never bit anyone.

One of our near-neighbors has an indoor pet fox. Great little pet.

From the Maryland DNR

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/feedingwildlife.asp