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15 September 2024
I'm up before five this morning because I heard Ben bark and decided not to ignore it. just in case. Apparently, there was some critter in the backyard that required their attention. By their, I mean Ben and Charlie. It was probably a racoon. I sat outside and watched them for a few minutes. I intended to lay back in my recliner and go back to sleep, but after moving around I was a little more awake than when initially woke, even if I still have some foggy head going on. But there is hot coffee which I make almost automatically when I get up. Also, the recliner is still there and isn't off the table. The dogs are quiet. I think they are both sleeping again.
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” - Homer, The Odyssey
@Swede1952 My small dog was peeing in the back garden one night last week when a racoon rapidly waddled past us down the garden path towards the shed. Haven't seen one for a while.
I haven't actually seen, the racoon, that I think is around at night, or early in the morning. But my dogs get agitated, and I find my bird feeders on the ground and/or broken.
@Swede1952 Definitely sounds like their work.
I have very little doubt about it being a raccoon, though opossum is a possibility as well. Both species are present in this area. I’ve actually seen raccoons in my yard in the past but never a opossum.
@Swede1952 We have both but tearing up the bird feeder is a raccoon's M.O.
They are clever critters. Once a hummingbird feeder went missing, I’d given up looking for it until one day I happened to look up in an oak tree in the backyard and there it was.