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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peppermint" data-source="post: 1987298536" data-attributes="member: 28189"><p>Wow.  Don't they attack/bite?  We don't have those here, so forgive the ignorance, but they do look very cool.  When I was a kid, I had a Canadian penpal.  One year for Christmas she sent me a kind of shaker thing (I think it was supposed to look authentically indigenous-y - whether it actually was I don't know).  Imagine a hammer-shaped thing, with a thin tree branch as the handle, and the head some kind of hollow container wrapped in silver birch tree bark, containing dried peas or something.  The point being, it had an ACTUAL raccoon's tail attached to the handle.  I was very fond of it at the time.  Which I'm slightly ashamed of now.  In mitigation, it was 45 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>