{"id":7932,"date":"2011-08-07T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2011-08-07T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T01:05:48","slug":"varmint-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/07\/varmint-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"Varmint Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While spending the night in the Tapias&#8217; backyard studio, I was shocked awake by what turned out to be two very unhappy raccoons fighting next to and in the Tapias&#8217; pool. There was so much vicious screeching and splashing that when I first awoke I had no idea what was going on. It didn&#8217;t last very long and they both walked away in different directions leaving wet paw prints behind.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of just one distressed raccoon. Imagine two of these, in the dead of night, right outside an open window you might be sleeping under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wYWNzd29ybGRzLmNvbS9ibG9ncy93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAxMS8wOC9yYWNjb29uLWluLWRpc3RyZXNzLm1wMw\"});<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While spending the night in the Tapias&#8217; backyard studio, I was shocked awake by what turned out to be two very unhappy raccoons fighting next to and in the Tapias&#8217; pool. There was so much vicious screeching and splashing that when I first awoke I had no idea what was going on. It didn&#8217;t last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/07\/varmint-distress\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-23W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2066,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/28\/movie-night-at-the-tapias\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":0},"title":"Movie Night At The Tapias","date":"September 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight's feature was Iron Man 2.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/MovieNight01-09-29-10-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":802,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/17\/dinner-and-a-sleepover-at-the-tapias\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":1},"title":"Dinner and a Sleepover at the Tapias","date":"July 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Drove down to Chula Vista to have dinner with Tapias and spend the night to avoid a loud party in our neighborhood\u00a0with drunken underage high school students\u00a0that will undoubtedly end with the police showing up.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/15\/pool-and-nacho-birthday-party-at-the-tapias\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":2},"title":"Pool and Nacho Birthday Party at the Tapias","date":"August 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent the afternoon into the night at the Tapias' house for a pool\/nacho\/birthday party with Tommy, Alex, Jos\u00e9, Rosi and Lebhouise and Jay's family and friends.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1530,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/03\/dinner-with-courtney-and-the-tapias\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":3},"title":"Dinner With Courtney And The Tapias","date":"September 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to Fuddruckers for dinner on Courtney's last night here in San Diego.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Fudd01-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1771,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/14\/video-chatting-with-the-tapias\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":4},"title":"Video-Chatting With The Tapias","date":"September 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a nice, long, laugh-filled video-chat with Sylvia and Rodrigo on their first night home from their San Elijo camping trip.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Friends&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12014,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/15\/tapias-house-sitting-day-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":7932,"position":5},"title":"Tapias House Sitting Day One","date":"March 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"After being picked up the night before, spending the night and then dropping them off at the airport long before even the sun got up, I began my house-sitting for the Tapias by getting shots of not only their fur-kids, Lilo and Stitch, but also of a hummingbird that began\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fauna&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TapiasDay1-01-03-14-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7934,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}