That is a lot of Racooons.

[therrin]

I guess this story is for ningwers really.

So I think we should start with a bit of background to make it make more sense. I now have a parking garage in my building. It's old school, narrow door, hand lift and close etc. It's also directly across from the trash dumpsters in a fairly narrow street and I drive a Saturn (A.K.A. the turning radius of a

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[jedifreac]

Nah, the raccoons roam even as far into suburbia as the area where I live. There was a mom and three babies in our tree one day. They were cute.

There's also the resident HUMONGOUS raccoon in the UCLA student ghetto/north village. That thing is HUGE.

[newtoniancat]

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=ce96415f-c1a2-4790-808e-abde7a22e764

Not a good idea to let raccoons roam anywhere where small children may be.

[hagdirt]

Racoons, possums, squirrels, rats, coyotes, even deer. Just like some plants are weeds - taking advantage of human disruption to thrive in new places - some animals are weeds, too. And that's not including the ferals - cats, pigeons, even dogs.

That being said, I once came across a flyer warning about coyotes in the Fairfax district. Like, in between the Grove and the Beverly Center. I fully expect to be eaten in my own home by a coyote one day.

[aaronjv]

I fully expect to be eaten in my own home by a coyote one day.
Spike will either defend you (ha), make a ruckus, or satiate the scavenger before it reaches us.

Really, I'd be more worried about the tarantulas in the palms outside our window nesting between your molars while you sleep.

[aaronjv]

The way I read this, you leave your car door open the whole time it is in the garage.

[castle_kevorah]

Southern California can surprise us with lots of diverse wildlife at times. I've seen entire families of raccoons in Pasadena and Palos Verdes, ENORMOUS possums in Pasadena and Wilmington, skunks in Palos Verdes, two small raptor birds ripping apart a pigeon in downtown L.A., a coyote up by Forest Lawn Cemetery, and a garter snake on the sidewalk in Fullerton. (The snake might've been an escaped pet, though.)

What's super-nifty is that in our area in Larchmont Village/Hancock Park, I've often seen a small flock of what appear to be tiny green parrots roosting in the big trees in our neighborhood. I wonder if they're the descendants of somebody's escaped pets, or a particularly hardy flock that migrated up from Mexico.