Re: Almost lost a cat...

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I can't believe that you weren't sufficiently interested in the class/
> order/ family/ genus/ species of fauna which was up in a *TREE* loudly
> _barking_ at a cat.  It is a rare rare dog that you will find in a tree.
> Even desperate 'coon dogs which make every effort to get up a tree after
> a 'coon rarely get there satisfactorily.  And I can't think of a time a
> dog climbed a tree after a cat -- but conceivably one might get stuck up
> there if it did.  And be barking about it.  That barking wouldn't be at
> the cat, it would be about the plight.

Raccoons can be quite obnoxious and vocal when threatened,  I was trying to
chase one out of the barn with a lunge whip one night and he was standing on
his hind legs hissing and barking at me, not about to move.   I'd be worried
more about what it was for the sake of knowing whether or not it was rabid.