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TexasTowelie

(116,811 posts) Wed Oct 30, 2019, 03:56 AM Oct 2019

Masked marauders: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State

JONESBORO, Ark. — An Arkansas State University alumnus says he was surprised to spot a few curious critters running around the campus library.

Codie Clark, a math tutor, says he spotted at least two raccoons Sunday on the third floor of the university's Dean B. Ellis Library while waiting for a student to arrive for a tutoring session. Clark says other students then cornered one raccoon.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications Bill Smith told KAIT-TV that the school's facility management personnel humanely trapped the animals after being notified by library staff.

Clark says an animal rescuer released the racoons back into the wild that night.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2019/oct/30/masked-marauders-multiple-raccoons-take-over-library-arkansas-state/801894/

A raccoon walks between stacks of books Sunday at the Arkansas State University's Dean B. Ellis Library in Jonesboro, Ark. Clark, a math tutor and ASU alumnus, said he spotted at least two raccoons on the the third floor of the library while waiting for a student to arrive for a tutoring session. Photo by Codie Clark via AP

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Masked marauders: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP

So, they weren't razorbacks but racoons all along. n/t 5X Oct 2019 #1

Rabies while you read. How lovely. LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #2

Oh stop. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #3

They can carry rabies and not show signs. LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #7

Welllll...I still like them. 😊 BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #9

Maybe there wasn't anything on tv? BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2019 #4

"Reading brings us unknown friends" - Honore Balzac mfcorey1 Oct 2019 #5

Q. What have these raccoons done..... SergeStorms Oct 2019 #6

I have a very brave raccoon that cleans up the cat food bowls sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #8

5X

(3,988 posts)

1. So, they weren't razorbacks but racoons all along. n/t

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 04:28 AM

Oct 2019

LuvNewcastle

(17,027 posts)

2. Rabies while you read. How lovely.

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Wed Oct 30, 2019, 05:38 AM

Oct 2019

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

3. Oh stop.

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 06:40 AM

Oct 2019

Not all raccoons are rabid. Obviously these weren’t.

LuvNewcastle

(17,027 posts)

7. They can carry rabies and not show signs.

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 07:41 AM

Oct 2019

They can be vicious, too. If you ever get too close to one and get bitten, your doctor will have to send you for rabies shots. I don't want those things anywhere around me any more than I would want to be in a room with rattlesnakes.