WILDLIFE

The raccoon found itself in a sticky situation in Fort Erie just north of the Peace Bridge after it was trapped at the top of a hydro transformer pole with a peanut butter jar wedged on its head.

(Thanks to Ken Fineberg)

Comments

[Steve]

And I'm rethinking the use of glue traps in our farm basement after I had to rescue a two foot long black snake from one this week.
The poor thing was twisted up like a pretzel. She kept trying to take a piece out of me while I was getting the glue off (try cooking oil) but she was too pooped to pop.

[El Greco]

The raccoon crisis gets hundreds of calls like this every week.

[max]

Unanswered is why Canadians put empty peanut butter jars on the top of their transformers.

[Hammond Rye]

Max, they use it as raccoon bait.

[EyeGore]

I bet a squirrel had something to do with it.

[padraig]

Until I read this I didn't realize that raccoons went to college.

[Johnny Canuck]

We put them up there so the raccoon's won't get their heads stuck in them. They're so smart those little buggers, I think they used to be lumberjacks at one time.