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'The Pied Piper of Raccoons' charms nearly animals by playing his flute
The Daily Mail ^ | 18:09 EDT, 26 September 2018 | Dailymail.com Reporter

Posted on 09/26/2018 4:27:35 PM PDT by Candor7

An upstate New York man has mastered the art of raccoon calling. Video posted online on September 20 by Newsflare shows the man standing on the side of a road in Brasher State Forest in St. Lawrence County playing a beautiful tune on his Native American flute. The man's skills aren't just music to viewers' ears. The raccoons seem to like it too and come out of hiding in the woods to surround the man. According to the filmmaker, at least 20 raccoons enjoyed the afternoon show before slinking back into the woods. The man, who is being dubbed the 'Pied Piper of Raccoons', lives at the reservation and usually plays his flute for the birds and other animals.

(video at link)

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: dralakami; flute; nativeamerica; rockyracoon
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Full Title: 'The Pied Piper of Raccoons' mysteriously charms nearly two dozen animals by playing his flute in a New York forest.

Native American power flute. If you like racoons, just take a boom box into the forest!

(I know that horses love the Scottish Highland Bagpipes and come galloping.)

1 posted on 09/26/2018 4:27:35 PM PDT by Candor7
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To: Candor7

Looks like strategically placed treats.


2 posted on 09/26/2018 4:33:12 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Candor7
Was catfood involved? 😁
3 posted on 09/26/2018 4:33:16 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: TexasGator
"Looks like strategically placed treats."

They are obviously eating something. Has he been putting out the treats and playing a tune and conditioning them to associate the tunes with the treats?

4 posted on 09/26/2018 4:35:17 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: TexasGator

Flute as dinner bell. Pavlovian response.


5 posted on 09/26/2018 4:38:13 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Ping to native American raccoon pied piper.( vidoe at article link)


6 posted on 09/26/2018 4:42:47 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TexasGator

They sort of formed a semi-circle and seemed to be picking up food.

I think they associate the flute playing with being fed.


7 posted on 09/26/2018 4:43:13 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Candor7

“Nearly” Animals.
MS-13?


8 posted on 09/26/2018 4:43:54 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Candor7

I knew a priest in college. He was very old. Each day he would go out and sit on a bench in the middle of campus. As he walked very slowly to his bench, he would whistle. As he did, the squirrels would come from everywhere. He would sit down, put down his cane and pull out a bag of peanuts from his coat pocket. As each squirrel came up his cane, he would literally hand the squirrel a peanut. The squirrel would take it from the old priest’s hand and run away with the peanut.

So you tell me. Did the squirrels come to hear the old priest whistle?


9 posted on 09/26/2018 4:47:17 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Candor7

He spread corn out on the ground. They hear that flute and go eat. It is the dinner bell.


10 posted on 09/26/2018 4:51:41 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: poinq

Did the squirrels come to hear the old priest whistle?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Of course not. Squirrels are not musical like raccoons!


11 posted on 09/26/2018 4:57:22 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TexasGator

“Rocky Raccoon”

Now somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota
There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon
And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young Rocky in the eye Rocky didn’t like that
He said “I’m gonna get that boy”
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon’s Bible
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival

His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy

Now she and her man, who called himself Dan
Were in the next room at the hoedown
Rocky burst in, and grinning a grin
He said, “Danny boy, this is a showdown”

But Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot
And Rocky collapsed in the corner, ah

D’da d’da d’da da da da
D’da d’da d’da da da da
D’da d’da d’da da d’da d’da d’da d’da
Do do do do do do

D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
Do do do do do do

Now, the doctor came in, stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said, “Rocky, you met your match”
And Rocky said, “Doc, it’s only a scratch
And I’ll be better, I’ll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able”

And now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon’s Bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Rocky’s revival, ah
Oh yeah, yeah

D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do do
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
Do do do do do do

D’do d’do d’do do do do, come on, Rocky boy
D’do d’do d’do do do do, come on, Rocky boy
D’do d’do d’do do do d’do d’do d’do d’do
The story of Rocky there


12 posted on 09/26/2018 5:00:07 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: dforest

If he spread corn, he should have put down a few pans of corn liquor....I wonder how drunken raccoons behave.


13 posted on 09/26/2018 5:13:35 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I was going to say I can do that with a handful of cat food, which they can smell from far away and find totally irresistible, while cats just think “meh.”

If you throw cat food into a camp fire the darn coons would try to fish it out.


14 posted on 09/26/2018 5:15:10 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: TexasGator

BS he has trained them with probably cat food, they come a runnin’. I do remember a clip I saw maybe 20 years ago. Chinese man who could go out and call to the birds with his arms outstretched and they would come by many dozens and land on him. No food involved.


15 posted on 09/26/2018 5:15:45 PM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: piasa
And go to the water bowl to wash their hands. 😁
16 posted on 09/26/2018 5:20:06 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: MomwithHope

I fed my cats one eve and went back out. Back yard was FULL of coons and cubs....all growling. Couldn’t shut the door soon enough!


17 posted on 09/26/2018 5:22:58 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I also noticed how fat those raccoons were. Not natural.


18 posted on 09/26/2018 5:30:20 PM PDT by MomwithHope
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To: MomwithHope

Chinese man who could go out and call to the birds with his arms outstretched and they would come by many dozens and land on him. No food involved.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yep. I know a Tibetan man who could do that: Gyalwang Karmapa.


19 posted on 09/26/2018 5:35:19 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: MomwithHope; Ezekiel

20 posted on 09/26/2018 5:41:33 PM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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