Caught a late night prowler in the yard

[PanamaExpat]

So about 2:30 in the morning the dog started going nuts out in the yard. Got out of bed and looked...nothing. Almost got back to sleep and she started up again.... and again...nothing. This continued on until about 5 AM and she started going crazy in the front yard. This time when I looked out the window I caught my late night prowler hanging on the driveway gate. Here are some photos of him. Sorry the first couple are fuzzy as the moment I took the camera out of the air conditioned house into the tropical rain the lens fogged up. Wife raised the upstairs window and asked if I had gone nuts being out in the yard in my boxers at 5AM taking photos in the rain. Afterwards I put the dog in the house and went back to bed.

This one is the first two toed sloth I have encountered in my yard. In the past I have only found the three toed ones in the area.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

They are fugly arent they!!

 

[hank857]

we had the same thing happen some years ago, dog went nuts in the night. Got up, he had tree'd a ring tail cat in the tree of the back yard! Cousin to the racoon, normally not seen but he stayed in the tree until next day when we got the dog penned in the front yard.

 

[Surrey]

God damn. The sloth at the zoo is so cute, that sucka is fugly!

 

[doorgunner]

Good photojournalistick pics for rainy-middle-of-the-nite-wife-screaming-pics

Ugly.....................no problem

hanging on the gate...no problem

do they bite......(not the wife)........problem!

 

[Mac]

Poor guy just wanted to come in and get dry and some loving! My usual critter is coon or a possem. One night both dogs went nuts in the house chasing a bat that had come down the chimmey. That was a fun half hour.
Dave

 

[MastuhWaffles]

He was trying to break in and steal everything.
And if you ever feel dumb, remember that sloths sometime grab their own arms, thinking it's a branch and fall to their death.

 

[tmcalavy]

Holy cow...I didn't know my ex mother in law was in Panama now!
Last critter encounter I had was late at night...heard something on the porch, got the flashlight and some shoes on (nothin else), plus the 38 and found a wild, wicked, teeth-gnashin' possum getting into the cat food cache. Put the 38 to good use, but was damn near still deaf when I went to work next morning...Huh? Get the what? It was a brown shorts moments to be sure...he was damn big.

 

[stegomon]

hmmm looks like my wife

 

[Surrey]

I have frequent encounters with a racoon I can't seem to get rid off...

The little bastard even came in through the cat door one night when I wasn't around!

I've shot him repeatedly with a pellet gun (cant discharge a real gun inside city limits) which barely phases him, my friend poked it in the face with a piece of lumber, still keeps coming around....

 

[tmcalavy]

Trap that pesky raccoon and deposit him/her in your best friends trash can the night before they put the trash out...but have a camera to catch the action...makes a good harmless prank as long as you don't suffocate the critter.

 

[colby450xc]

He was trying to break in and steal everything.
And if you ever feel dumb, remember that sloths sometime grab their own arms, thinking it's a branch and fall to their death.

That is hilarious.

 

[PanamaExpat]

I am not too sure about the grabbing their own arms thing. I do know they can swim very well and move about the trees with a minimum of effort.

For those of you with the possum encounters... When I lived in north Georgia and we would have those wonderful ice storms that would break all the trees in the yard we would wake up in the morning and there on the front porch would be my three dogs all curled up asleep and in the middle of them would be this possum also curled up sleeping with the dogs. Then when you would open the front door he would do that possum grin and hiss. Close the door and there he would stay until the dogs all got up for some reason.

 

[cvar]

Very cute sloth. I hear they make good pets?

 

[PanamaExpat]

Why would yo want a sloth for a pet? Their fur is loaded with algae... they smell... they don't have much in the way of personality.