Your little girls might have good time watching their mother as kid..By now they have realized after all these showups they are just kids like us at heart.

Its nice to see u talk. It reflects ur innocence..How u keep it after growing up sooo Big. Most loss it while growing up.

this sounds terrible
forget animal rights-just get an airgun and shoot them

Mallika, you write well. Please read the following article:

http://www.gidesigns.net/articles/How-To-Stop-Racoons-from.htm

I am afraid they will take over your home soon. You will find them partying in your garden and in your attic. They love to breed in beautiful, cozy homes. Their little babies are very cute!

They do not like the smell of ammonia and the taste of hot red chili. However, do not feed them hot curry. The rascals may get used to it and never leave you home. They do not like loud bhangra music. So play some loud bollywood music to them.

If you're a non-vegetarian, they'll make excellent curry!

Mallika,

What a great opportunity to practice spiritual connection with creation. Because you/we are removed from the natural world and Her wildlife you/we don't know how to respond to these invisible neighbors when they show themselves to us.

From a spiritual angle: Why did these racoons choose to present themeselves to you at this time? Is this "power animal" bringing you a message? (There are a lot of books and cards on power animals.) From an earth angle: What are the solutions to living in balance with Nature?

There is an organizaton called Wilderness Awareness School (www.wildernessawareness.org)that can answer your questions about living with Nature. They teach tracking, bird language, plant medicine, etc. and survival skills such as making cordage, purifying water, and making fire with bow and hand drill. This school had an impact in my life by helping me ground my spirituality and by teaching me to be comfortable in the wilderness.

I have a daughter who considers her three raccoons as "pets." She has a green belt on one side of her so at least they have some open space.

I was at a meeting recently promoting a concert for my friend Dana Lyons who sings fun and upbeat environmental songs for kids--of all ages. I'm hoping to have a concert in conjunction with World Peace Day and a tree planting event here in my valley (one of the ten most fertile valleys in the USA). One mother at the meeting didn't want trees planted along the river because someone was molested there once. An older woman didn't want large trees planted because they would block the view of the river. I spoke up for the wildlife trying to live there: raccoon, otter, beaver, great blue heron, hawk. Wildlife that needs trees.

We are not separate from the natural world even if we act like it at times.

Trish~~

Hi Mallika,

I had to laugh with you, but I can also understand the panic under the laughter. I am a bit like this too, not having grown up with animals around. I've grown very fond of wild animals, but the domestic ones still put me in awkward situations :)

Once a few years ago, a bunch of young horses with absolutely no manners scared me soundly as they came galloping like a storm, surrounded me and my two then small kids, pushed us down in the grass and started to chew on my son's hair, lol... I refused to let the kids go near those horses after that, until I realized how silly it was, and had to give in to my daughter's insistence. She loves animals so much that she can't understand me at all! She not only loves them, she has been studying book after book for as long as she remembers, so she is an expert by now. And so I let her help me out of the mind block I was in, by showing me and explaining how exactly one relates to a horse :) :D Really, it's an art, you have to know what they like and what they don't like, and why. If they can't see your hand for example, they might get scared of your friendly touch, and bite you! Besides, horses are different just like people, and have their personal kinks. But my daughter has no fear whatsoever, and so she has abundant attention to put on how to connect and relate with animals.

She being the expert, I went to her and told her your story, and asked for advice. She said it was hard for her to come with advice, as she can't imagine being afraid of the four racoons... but she thought for a while and said that if you are afraid, then what you did was probably the best thing to do. What she would do, she said, was put the kids in a safe place, and then go out carefully to not scare the racoons, and stand still to see if they want to come close, and learn to know you. She thinks it would be easy to befriend them.

What I would do is sit down and talk with the racoons "inside me", and ask them to avoid your garden in the daytime, as you have small children, and are scared of them. Animals are very friendly, but they can't always understand us- I bet those racoons had no idea how they scared you (or even that you call that place "my garden"). But if you "talk" with them inside like that, and ask them kindly and respectfully to find some other place, I'm sure they will respond. It usually works for me, though it hasn't worked last week when I asked a bunch of frowning bulls to move away from my path...they responded that I could as well move away myself, so I did just that :D:)

Good luck with this issue, I hope it works out in the best way for you!

Mallika,
I tried to tell you!
Todd

That is so cool! What a blessing to find such amazing critters in your own back yard. They came to visit YOU, you know. If you leave them some treats, fruits and veggies dry dog food ect. they will stay out of the Koi pond. I remember there was always critters around when I was growing up. How nice for your babies to get to see them playing in the yard. As long as you don't trap or mess withum much, there pretty friendly.
Watching them through the window it so much fun!

Love

Baba, You have seen so much wildlife! How de-lightful! Tell me more! What does "cappucins" mean? My mind is imagining all sorts of critters but is not landing on a specific.

Trish~~

"Guest room," "gardener," "courtyard"

Kinda reminds me of the millionaires who tear up more forestry for their luxurious homes, and then have the black bears put to death for trespassing . . .

I guess the bears are not too keen on urban dwelling!

Just giving you a hard time Mallika; but definitely DO NOT let the girls around those lil critters because they can be pretty, umm, well, animalistic.

Be safe.

Peace

Hi Malika,

I would bet you were not bored that night, boredom the Bane of the Gods.

The universe was perhaps providing something to get your mind off of whatever had been dominating it that night, redirecting your intentions, shifting your attention, perhaps leading to some realization and insight. Sometimes the creatures of nature provide for divine intervention.

Well first one chose fear over love. They knew you feared them. They could smell the fear pheromones. Fear is a sign of weakness. Nature tends to destroy that filled with fear because the fearful entity sees itself as something separate and therefore would tend to act in violation of the body as a whole. The fearless are not a threat; that which is full of fear behaves in an irrational destructive manner and is a threat. The fearful are like a pathogen in the body with their separatist nature.

Sometimes we like to deny our own animal nature in our loftiness and supremacy.

We forget that we must Poop and Pee just like all the other animals. Sure we like to hide that fact enclosing ourselves in a bathroom, hidden, attempting to hide the truth of our animal nature from the world.

We are both animal and spirit all the emanation of One consciousness.

The raccoons are a part of our own consciousness yet when one sees them as separate, it gives rise to fear.

They don't understand the concept of property ownership that is a manmade fiction in conflict with nature. Technically man encroached upon their domain building it’s permanent structures and creating artificial boundaries that only exist in the minds of men.

They had found a very nice pond with fish, the natural thing to do would be to eat them.

That you would want to keep the fish to look upon is very unnatural. That you got upset at them for doing what was natural must have been very confusing to them and they for sure thought you were some clueless rabid creatures.

Not to mention that you had probably not marked your territory according to natural law, in natural law there is no such thing as ownership. We can expect that the reason they got upset and growled at you was that you had no right to get upset at them.

There is such a thing as territorial space but one must engage in the proper protocols to establish that, which means you need to look them in the eyes, fearless, and stomp your feet and growl and approach them slowly giving them time to evade you and leave. One is also required to mark their territory.

You also might want to mark your territory but that could attract males if you are in heat. So you might want to have your husband mark your territory. Then you have a right to throw a fit if they trespass.

Generally animals will seek to avoid conflict unless they see you as a threat to their children.

They were probably quite amused that something bigger and more intelligent then they ware would be afraid of them, in their eyes you were a lesser animal.

I say this all in fun, simply playing with perspective.

All is good.

I think some light darkening drapes/shades may be on your shopping list...!

How scary...Put one of your dad's meditation tapes on lol!

Mallika
any more visits from raccoons?
did they bring their friends this time?
any nosies in the attic?
any in the chimney?

Christmas is coming soon
no Santa sliding this year
through your chimney
but papa and mama raccoons
and their little cute one
looking like a baby raccoon
what presents have you
bought for them? Not yet?

Mallika
any more visits from raccoons?
did they bring their friends this time?
any nosies in the attic?
any in the chimney?

Christmas is coming soon
no Santa sliding this year
through your chimney
but papa and mama raccoons
and their little cute one
looking like a baby raccoon
what presents have you
bought for them? Not yet?

Sorry for the duplicate postings...
but here's the corrected version -

Mallika
any more visits from raccoons?
did they bring their friends this time?
any nosies in the attic?
any in the chimney?

Christmas is coming soon
no Santa sliding this year
through your chimney
but papa and mama raccoons
and their little cute one
looking like a baby baboon
what presents have you
bought for them? Not yet?

I find the following advice to ward off raccoons of great interest. The advice seems to be to the female human species, and is detailed in post #15 by Richard Thomas (signs for 'infinity' and 'phuk', presumably registered trademarks of some kind!)

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One is also required to
mark their territory.

You also might want
to mark your territory
but that could attract males
IF YOU ARE IN HEAT
(the capitals are mine)

So you might want to have
YOUR HUSBAND MARK YOUR TERRITORY
Then you have a right to
throw a fit if they (RACCOONS) trespass.

There is another possibility.

Raccoons’ are normally solitary and don't hang out together although there are some exceptions.

The level of trauma for the experience seems unusual; this could be a case of mind mapping or masking and screen memories. It does sound a bit surreal a raccoon picking up your daughters toy, chewing it and looking at you through the window. What kind of statement is that? Maybe it was just a dream?

Or what you encountered was something so unfamiliar and disturbing your minds mapped whatever it was to something familiar. Or it was translated into something that you could understand and handle.

What was really there? What did you really have an encounter with?

One time when I guess I was about 8, I was with my father in the car returning from early morning fishing expedition at a local state park, we had to go home early I remember so it was still nine or ten in the morning.

We turned on this road leading away from the lake, and we were stopped, our path obstructed by these huge crows that was what my Dad said at the time. About five or six of them and there were big, their heads level with the hood of the car. Eventually they got out of the way and we moved on I don’t really remember if my Dad honked the horn or got out or what I remember him being upset by them. These birds were a little over three feet tall.

So I grew up thinking crows were these big thee foot tall birds. Later in life I was surprised to find out that crows don’t get that big about 20 inches max. So what were they?

Another time when young we were camping in the Mountains I think in Virginia, and out camp was raided by black bears. That was the story. I only remember the trauma and excitement. Later in life when this was being discussed no one that was there could actually remember seeing the black bears just that there was a presence of black bears.

When you talk that way... each time you got me
Each time you got me and I cannot go away.

So, as a prey I have to come.

In the backyard, here I am. In the corner. Dressed with black in the dark.

Enter into meditation, now.

Close your eyes. The wild is asking for your presence. A wish to go traveling. Animal-lady, what are you waiting for? No, no planes!

See that dress? Open your mind and take it! Yes.
That one... Put your four feet inside.

No... stop to ask!

Take a breath... feel the air all around.

The front feet you feel them? Feel the muscle-power on the back ones? I am not looking. Mutate all your body and put the head.

Feel the respiration... you need to scream!?!? Let it go... auuuuuuuuuu! It's the way it is now!

Your energy is jumping on every muscles and you are grumbling as you are now a very bad wolf in forest-town. I said you are the baddest... wild... guided by instincts... instincts.

Make the first steps out of the bed... the claws gripping the floor. Your vision is lower... walking-no-doubts into the house toward the back door... no need to open any lights. Go to the door get out and wait.

I see you.

I want to drink some water into the dark... You scary shiny eyes would you invite me to take a glass?

Your way of walking pushes my fears on you and jump back to me. Why are you trapping me that way?

I am playing the victim, you said?

No... I do not want that! No... No... I do not want to hurt you! Attack me if you want... I will not defend myself... No... I cannot do that!

Why do you want to put me out of myself?

Hey Mallika,
The squirrels cut power in two Midwestern
cities. Check the Yahoo news.
And some being (animal) appeared in Florida
and they aren't sure if it's an advanced squirrel
or an orangutan (Yahoo news).
Todd

Animals and plants speak...as well as the stars and seas. Are we listening? Water, air, earth and fire speak? Let's attune to core fire focused in Love not Lust of ego.

Trish~~

Dear Mallika,

Please excuse me for the following repost. I am posting it here for your kind attention and prompt action.

Thanks.

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Dear Intentblog Founders/Administrators,

This morning after I joined your website I went through some comments of your members and was highly disturbed. I did not expect you will allow your members to pour out filth here and defeat the very purpose for which the Intenblog was established.

I have copied some comments that I am pasting below, in case you missed them. It's up to you if you want to kick off these kinds of people from your site.

Please read the following exchanges among your members on the open thread:

A little green penis and a bong highlight the day.

136. Posted by Keith on November 20, 2007 04:15 PM
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The comment (#136, Keith) that marks the "highlights of the day" wins the Best Comment of the Week Award.

:D

138. Posted by hgquinn on November 20, 2007 04:18 PM
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And a little later, the following:

A little yellowish-green penis and a water-pipe...same difference!

142. Posted by Keith on November 20, 2007 04:29 PM

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Anybody will be dumbfounded if you do not discipline your members. I never thought that such people from gutters of the society will have a free pass to pour out their filth at the Intenblog.

Happy Thanksgiving!

18. Posted by khandro on November 21, 2007 09:41 AM