Raccoon
Who would have thought that at 5 a.m. this morning Nick and I would wake up to the sound of a huge crash in the kitchen? When we sat up and found our most likely suspects (the cats) staring back at us, we immediately bolted out of bed to see what it was.
Turns out a raccoon had entered through the cat door and was wrecking havoc in our kitchen and living room. When we finally caught up with him he was perched on top of our bookshelf in the living room.
We safely installed the cats in the bedroom (Bentley was very bushy tailed) and grabbed a trekking pole for defense. Then we opened the sliding door and proceeded to have a staring contest with it. Neither of us was going to budge…
It wasn’t until Nick went to put some clothes on and I looked distracted with the camera that it tried to make a run for it. The picture above was caught just as it was rounding the edge of the door to make its escape.
Comments:
Good thing you didn’t have a heart attack! Great photo!
Wow! It just baffles me that animals can’t figure out how to get back out the way they came in!
You can hope it doesn’t happen every day! We’ve had a raccoon fight outside the bedroom window every night this week at 3:00 am. Between that and construction crews starting up at 6:59 it’s been a long week…
Reminds me of the time your Dad and I found a live bat that had taken up residency on our front porch. The similarity begins and perhaps ends with the animal carrying the day. Disrupting our lives and getting away scott free. As a kid it was more entertaining than disrupting come to think about it.
Uncle Jim
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