Say Hello to My Little Friends
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
October 17, 2018 6:36pm CST
To get the full effect you have to say the title of this post the way Al Puccino did in Scarface - the atrocious remake of a pretty good gangster movie.
My little friends come up out of the woods next door to score some cat food. You can see Stripes up on the porch railing. He looks none to amused at the uninvited guests.
Some years we have opposums come up. Some years it's raccoons. These two look rather young. Considering they're penchant for freeloading off our old cats, they must be the raccoon equivalent of millenials. 
As long as our visitors stay under 20 pounds and have fur, I'm perfectly willing to let add an extra scoop of cat food to the bowl.
As long as our visitors stay under 20 pounds and have fur, I'm perfectly willing to let add an extra scoop of cat food to the bowl.16 people like this
17 responses
@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
18 Oct 18
In the summer we would get them as well we have not lately though. Where I use to liverhey use to get into our garbage cans outside that had lids on them.
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
18 Oct 18
@DWDavis That’s good. I remember one time at a apartment where I lived with my ex-husbandand kids my son took the trash out to the garbage dumpster and when he raised the lid there was a raccoon and it hissed at him. We had to call the landlord and the landlord got a hold of someone to take care of it we did not need the kids being g bitten by it.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
18 Oct 18
@Tina30219 A raccoon bite can quickly become a disaster as raccoons are a rabies vector animal and can carry the disease without actually catching the disease. Any raccoon bite has to be treated as if rabid.
@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
18 Oct 18
A couple young ones, probably siblings. Raccoons are territorial and around here are regarded as unwanted varmints. All the ones I've seen recently are really big. They don't get along so well with the cats. On the other hand, the local skunk gets along just fine with the cats
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@koopharper (7599)
• Canada
18 Oct 18
@DWDavis As long as they don't bother us, I don't mind. I don't have chickens or any other animals for them to create a problem.
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@LeaPea2417 (40052)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Oct 18
@DWDavis My parents told me that not too long ago, they had to call Animal Control because a mama raccoon had made a nest in their attic and had babies in it. That freaked me out.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
21 Oct 18
@LeaPea2417 Twenty some years ago, when we first moved into our house, we called Animal Control about a raccoon coming up on our deck and stealing our cats food. Their answer was, "You live outside city limits. Just shoot it."
Needless to say, I did not shoot the raccoon. We just gave it a name and put out extra food.
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@snowy22315 (209108)
• United States
18 Oct 18
Well, the problem is sometimes they are rabid. I didn't know you had cats.
@allknowing (153529)
• India
18 Oct 18
You too
I have stray cats waiting for their feed every single day. I have put up a post on that. Love it.
I have stray cats waiting for their feed every single day. I have put up a post on that. Love it.1 person likes this
@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Oct 18
Aw they are so cute and Stripes doesn't seem to mind them too much!
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@rebelann (117264)
• El Paso, Texas
19 Oct 18
I think the kritters are cute but I am curious, will racoons harm cats?
@wolfgirl569 (135944)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Oct 18
Stripes is not happy it seems. But the visitors are cute.
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@sallypup (69214)
• Centralia, Washington
19 Oct 18
I don't think you will have an issue but..... be aware, as I am sure you are, that critter is a wild one. He is not a vegetarian. One of those cute bandits wiped out a hen house for me a few years ago and it wasn't a cute sight. I love raccoons and find them beautiful but also am very wary.
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@teamfreak16 (43655)
• Denver, Colorado
31 Oct 18
My ex-girlfriend and I used to leave the back door open at night in the summer so the cat could come and go as he pleased. One night I went to get some water and saw a racoon on the deck, only without my glasses, I thought it was a big ugly cat. A couple nights later, I actually caught one of the raccoons in the kitchen, eating all the cat food. We started closing the door after that.
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@FourWalls (86830)
• United States
18 Oct 18
I like to watch them eat (the raccoons, that is: cats look at the price tag of the food, and if you paid a lot for it they won't touch it).
