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That doesn’t mean I have to like them though, does it? Because I’m really not a “critter” person, don’t like lots of them & wish they would leave my house alone! We worked in the yard a while late Saturday afternoon and again Sunday afternoon before night church. Both days we had an unwelcome guest come up on our back porch, right in broad daylight and with us standing there! The very idea, this thing has some nerve. 😆 Don has told me before that we’ve had raccoons come around at night to the porch, eating out of our cat dishes but this is the first time we’ve seen them in the daytime. The neighbor thinks it might be a mama with babies up under their house, icky! At least it’s not under my house. We think it might be desperate for food for some reason, babies or not, is why it’s coming around during the day.
Snapped a few pictures one of the days…ugh, not sure why though because they just aren’t cute!
I was quite surprised it just walked up on my porch with us close by! That cooler to the left, Don has caught them inside it at night, with only their rear sticking out! Guess I need to go move it but there’s nothing in it now, there was cat food in it when the raccoon got in it last year!
The thing walked right up to the cat and the cat hissed at it pretty good and ran it off………you can just barely see the edge of the cat at the bottom of the shot.
The cat just didn’t run him far enough off, it just ran a few feet off into the carport!
Don finally chased it a bit further away but he said they can get rather feisty so he didn’t want to fool with it much. I suppose it’ll be back later this afternoon. The neighbors said they called someone that would come trap it and take it away but don’t think they’ve heard back from him yet. I’m seeing Stacy this weekend…so for sure if they let us, we’re borrowing the trap they’ve used for this very thing before!
I’ve had a suet feeder in a tree not too far from my back porch, full suet cake in it and it’s been there a while. Last week I noticed that the feeder had been opened and the cake was on the ground; noticed this morning that it was totally gone! Don said raccoons were very agile and that it had probably gotten to it, opened it and gotten the suet out to eat! Won’t be refilling that for a while……am also trying to make sure we don’t leave cat food out in the dishes either!
Do you have unwelcome guests come around your house/yard? I’m hoping to get rid of this one soon!
May 7th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Awww! I like raccoons. But then again, they don’t come to visit at my house. They DO come to visit our tent when we camp, and we just lay there and laugh at their vain attempts to get our food. Or, they’re still vain to date. I’m sure we’ll lose food someday.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Wow, that’s one brave coon! The ones we had here never came out in broad daylight, so the babies/hunger theory must be right on target. Ours were coming during the cover of night. They would eat the entire ear of corn on the squirrel feeder, or do just what yours are doing – get the whole suet cake out of the suet feeder and eat it. We kept moving the suet feeder further and further out on smaller branches, and one morning, we found the suet feeder on the ground, broken. Must have moved it to a not very sturdy branch and it fell off while the racoon was trying to get it.
This cage we bought is fairly big, and its been sitting outside, so I don’t know if you’d want to bring it back in your ‘burb. Better bring an old towel or quilt to lay down, or get it when Don comes in his truck. Here’s a picture of it, with a really large coon in it! — link here
Ugh, they’re sort of cute in a way, much cuter than possums, but ugh, I don’t like them much either 🙂
May 7th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
That’s a bold racoon you have there to come out in broad daylight! I’ve always thought that they’re kinda cute, we had a mama and 3 babies in our tree one night. But, in broad daylight they don’t look so cute, do they?
May 7th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I think they are cute 😀 But yes, pesky. I had one a couple years back, but it only came out at night to ravage our garbage cans! I’ll tell you, it’s better than the skunks! We’ve also had possums and ground hogs. Right now just the squirrels and bunnies!
Sherry
May 7th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
We had a family of raccoons that lived on our side deck the months we were away with Iz. They thought we didn’t belong when we got home. They are funny little creatures.
May 7th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I don’t have any critters at my house. I’m having fun looking and hearing about yours though!
🙂 LOL!
May 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I miss my racoon! I had 2 racoon pets growning up. I gave one away to my uncle, but I kept my favorite until I had to go to college. 🙁
May 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Wow! That’s amazing that it came that close to you guys. I’m not used to them being so open and “friendly.”
BTW – My husband begging me to leave a reply and he wanted me to let you know that “you are cool!” So there you go…an ego boost for the evening 🙂
Have a wonderful week!
May 7th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
That is bold little thing! But I have to say, I think raccoons are adorable…(sorry Gail!)
Now if it was a possum, that would be different altogether…those things are disgusting.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
She’s so cute! Of course, she is at your house, not mine. I did have a wild turkey that kept coming up on our deck at 6am every day for the first few months we lived in this house. He would “gobble” and peck at the dining room window until I opened the blinds. He always left quickly when the dog and I came out the door to walk. Incidentally, a turkey ran into the side of my van about 9 or 10 months after that about a mile from here and did $1300 damage to my car and killed himself in the process. My mom teased and said that it was “my turkey” who was distraught that we didn’t invite it to live with us when we first moved here.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
That’s funny…I was at my “surrogate” parents’ house Wednesday washing clothes and Bruce suddenly said, “Look! I caught a coon.” He had two traps in the backyard and one of they had a coon in it. That thing had such a pitiful face on it…like a puppy. I didn’t get tricked but almost! 🙂 BTW, if that’s a song…I do NOT know it!
May 8th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Hmmm, we just saw one in our backyard the other night. Not a fan of these rascals. I need to make sure my husband does not let our dog loose outside at night!
May 8th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Tag-you’re it.
May 8th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Oh, she’s adorable! We’re big critter fans around here, though.