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[Sam]

OK guys, this is what happened.

I moved my wife's Grand Cherokee Jeep out of the garage and into the driveway to make room for 850 pounds of Louisiana crawfish for our LSU crawfish boil which I was keeping in my garage.

I forgot to roll up the passenger side windowws after moving the Jeep.

That night our friendly racoon, that visits our trash cans on a nightly basis, jumped into her Jeep and lookd for something to eat.

I knew something was amiss when I saw the package of crackers on the Jeep's hood the next morning. The racoon also bite into some gum.

When my wife entered the Jeep to go to the grocery store, she noticed the foot marks on the inside of the passenger side front window and the cracker crumbs on the floor mat. She asked me what had happened and I told her a racoon had gotten into her car and taken her crackers but left them on the Jeep's hood.

She said she could not blame the racoon as the crackers were stale.

Question: Anyone else out there have any amimals visit their cars in the evenings? Just wondering.

[K_Mac]

Sounds like you were lucky. The little varmints can be very destructive. My daughter had to buy heavy duty trash cans to keep them from making a mess of the yard. I would not want them in my vehicles. Sounds like the one that visited you was fairly polite; I would not count on all of them to be so well behaved.

My father-in-law has a family that he feeds regularly. They will eat dog food on his front porch, even during the day. I don't trust the things though...

[BrianinMD]

Not a raccoon, but a family member left their car windows down one night and a stray tom cat decided to sleep in it. Which was fine until the second stray tom cat showed up. The mess and smell that was left over from the fight took awhile to go away.

[Lund Explorer]

Never in my vehicle, but i had one make a visit into my boat. Ate an entire 100 pack of Power Worms that were sitting on the deck.


On a brighter note - At least that coon didn't chow down on your crawdads!

[deaknh03]

Never in my vehicle, but i had one make a visit into my boat. Ate an entire 100 pack of Power Worms that were sitting on the deck.


On a brighter note - At least that coon didn't chow down on your crawdads!

Those freakin power worms will catch anything!

[Shad_Master]

A few years ago the heater fan on my car started making a noise and I though it might be a bearing or the motor was just going out. As the temperatures got colder it started making more noise and so I decided to take it. Dropped off the car and got a ride to work. As I walked into the office, my message light was blinking, it was my mechanic and his question was 1) Do you have a dog? and 2) Do you leave near an open field?

When I answered yes to both questions, he told me that the fan housing was completely packed with dog food. Apparently the field mice that live behind us were getting into the dog food and storing it up for winter. He poured about 2 pounds of dog food out in the trash can, I bought one of those plastic bins to store the dog food - problem solved.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Me know. Have a buddy that had a four ft rat snake get on his engine. It got caught in the belt while he was driving down the road. Splattered the snake all over the hood and knocked the belt off the pulleys.

[grimlin]

Sounds like you were lucky. The little varmints can be very destructive. My daughter had to buy heavy duty trash cans to keep them from making a mess of the yard. I would not want them in my vehicles. Sounds like the one that visited you was fairly polite; I would not count on all of them to be so well behaved.

My father-in-law has a family that he feeds regularly. They will eat dog food on his front porch, even during the day. I don't trust the things though...

Yup Lucky to say the least! They are in our plant at work and they are ripping out all kind of drywall,wooden flooring and occasionally Day shift will find trash cans tipped over and garbage scattered all over the plant. They also hide up in the beams and crane railings. We got traps set up all over the plant trying to catch them.


I rarely ever leave my windows up unattended.If I do it's barely cracked open in the summer. However I have cats go up under my car and into my engine and tore some wires out. costs me 75$ every time they do it.

[OHIO]

A few years ago the heater fan on my car started making a noise and I though it might be a bearing or the motor was just going out. As the temperatures got colder it started making more noise and so I decided to take it. Dropped off the car and got a ride to work. As I walked into the office, my message light was blinking, it was my mechanic and his question was 1) Do you have a dog? and 2) Do you leave near an open field?

When I answered yes to both questions, he told me that the fan housing was completely packed with dog food. Apparently the field mice that live behind us were getting into the dog food and storing it up for winter. He poured about 2 pounds of dog food out in the trash can, I bought one of those plastic bins to store the dog food - problem solved.

Similar story except no mice.
We have a dog door on our garage and raccoons are always coming in and eating my dogs food.

One night about a year ago I heard a loud bang in the garage.
I thought someone was breaking in, so I went out the front door and around to the garage.
My adrenaline was pumpin and I was ready to start swingin at whoever I saw.
I felt like the biggest idiot when I saw the raccoon in their chowin down on some dog food.

[GLADES]

I had a stray momma cat have a litter of kitten's in my boat. She slipped in under the boat cover.
Cute little buggers. After a couple of weeks they moved on.

[northern basser]

Just the other day I was pulling up to a house with my work van and a bird flew from the back(inside the vehicle) of the van, then landed on the dash in front of the passenger seat. It scared the crap out of me, but I think the bird was pretty freaked out too.

[Sam]

I spoke to Wdycrankbait about the story and he and I agreed that the most horrible thing that ever got into his car was Grace.

Grace is my next door neighbor who lives with her parents and sells Amway.

I set Woody and Grace up on a date.

Hope Woody will elecidate to us about having Grace in his car.

[deaknh03]

Not a car story, but still annoying. A couple years ago my wife and I heard scratching noises in our bedroom ceiling, and scurrying about, especially late at night. We have vaulted ceilings, and only a perimeter crawl space as access. After a couple of nights, I got the sack to open the crawl space and have a look. I open the mini door, peek my head around the corner, and I am looking at a huge raccoon, needless to say I back my skid stained self out of there quick like. Next day I call pest control, they come out, and tell us we have a mama and babies living up there, and mama is the scurrying we hear, the babies are the scratching. He traps the mama the first night, then cuts a couple of holes in our ceiling to find the nesting babies, and pulls out 4 babies, and literally they were right over our headboard. here is a picture the pest control guy had me take as he was pulling the babies out of the ceiling.
http://www.jpwildlif...s-control.shtml its the second picture, at the bottom of the page.

[WdyCrankbait]

Thanks Sam! I thought that was our secret!!!

[Bassn Blvd]

My wife, every now and again, finds one of my rubber worms in her bed sheets or underwear drawer.