Re: NAZI COONS INVADE GERMANY!
- From: "My Last Sigh" <mylastsigh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:30:41 -0800
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"Lord Valve" <detritus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hmmm...sounds like these good ol' boys could use a
> few hunnert Redbone hounds. Sic 'em, Yonder!
>
> LV
>
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> The Times
> October 28, 2005
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Nazi racoons invade the wineland
> By Roger Boyes
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Vineyard owners across Germany are hiring bounty
> hunters to kill furry animals with a taste for grapes
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> HUNTERS are being hired to prevent a plague of raccoons
> with Nazi-era ancestry from munching their way through
> the German wine harvest.
>
> "Raccoons wiped out almost the entire harvest in a matter
> of days," Werner Kothe, who runs a small vineyard in
> Brandenburg, said. The small, bushy tailed animals invaded
> his attic, cellar and storage sheds.
>
> The area most at risk is around Kassel, where raccoons are
> in easy striking distance of some of the best white wine
> harvests in Germany.
>
> Kassel has been regarded as the raccoon capital of Europe
> ever since Baron Sittich Von Berlerpsch released two of
> the animals into the wild in February 1934. The move was
> encouraged by Hermann Goering, the Nazi leader who, apart
> from being the head of Hitler's air force, was the chief
> forester of the Third Reich. The raccoons, known as
> wash-bears in Germany, were seen by Goering as an enrichment
> to German woodland.
>
> The first raccoons were brought from North America in the
> 19th century. Their population grew by leaps and bounds
> when an Allied bomb hit a raccoon farm in 1945, releasing
> more into the wild. Since then they have thrived around
> Kassel, which claims to have a hundred for every square
> kilometre. The town has appointed a raccoon control
> inspector, and in outlying villages local residents are
> urged to tie chicken wire to their dustbins.
>
> Raccoons eat almost anything and are very dextrous,
> capable of opening dustbins in search of food or turning
> on water taps. They are also known to raid birds' nests.
> Their favourite haunt remains a cool cellar - hence the
> lure of vats full of grapes or apples being prepared to
> make wine.
>
> A decision to hire bounty hunters was taken last year,
> resulting in a cull of 3,471 animals. This year the bounty,
> and the number of hunters, is to be increased.
>
> Farmers regard the creatures as pests while biologists
> regard them as an interesting addition to the German
> landscape. As a result, some are being trapped and
> others are being tagged by scientists in the same
> stretch of woodland.
>
> The reproduction rate is high. "They could soon be a
> presence across the country," Ulf Hohmann, a wildlife
> biologist, said. Some studies estimate that there are
> already a million raccoons in Germany and that the
> European raccoon population stretches from the Netherlands
> to the Urals.
>
> MISCHIEF-MAKERS IN A MASK
>
> The opposable thumbs of raccoons allow them to make
> mischief, including unlocking doors and getting into
> rubbish bins.
>
> They can swim across rivers and lakes but only
> venture into deep water if threatened
>
> Adult raccoons may be up to three feet long. Their
> tails can grow to 15 inches
>
> The name is derived from an Algonquin Indian word
> meaning "he scratches with his hands."
>
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