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Jul. 16th, 2009 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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runsamuck some coffee - he woke up having trouble breathing and that always helps - and Gareth also got up, saying he couldn't sleep. He spent the day at a friends and they both got sunburned - I did n't think to send sunscreen with him, and his arms and the tops of his feet just got fried. I got him settled in the living room and John his coffee, and was trying to figure out whether I should go back to bed or just stay up, when Gareth came in and said he heard noises on the patio.
The last couple of days we've found the cat food box - a sturdy plywood thing with a snap lock on a chain that my dad made, decades ago - dragged clear across the patio into the fountain (which does not contain any water at present), and the corners of the lid shredded as if something had been chewing on them. We told Gareth to turn on the light, and saw movement on the rock fountain. I looked closer and saw not one, but about five masked furry shapes, one large and four small. One by one they clambered back up the rocks and along the fence to the hawthorne hedge.
Raccoon damage
Huntington Beach CA
Canon EOS 1000D
16 July 2009
Well. We'd suspected a raccoon, but not an entire family of them! I know they live around here but this is the first time I've actually seen any. I guess we'll have to bring the box inside.
runsamuck some coffee - he woke up having trouble breathing and that always helps - and Gareth also got up, saying he couldn't sleep. He spent the day at a friends and they both got sunburned - I did n't think to send sunscreen with him, and his arms and the tops of his feet just got fried. I got him settled in the living room and John his coffee, and was trying to figure out whether I should go back to bed or just stay up, when Gareth came in and said he heard noises on the patio. The last couple of days we've found the cat food box - a sturdy plywood thing with a snap lock on a chain that my dad made, decades ago - dragged clear across the patio into the fountain (which does not contain any water at present), and the corners of the lid shredded as if something had been chewing on them. We told Gareth to turn on the light, and saw movement on the rock fountain. I looked closer and saw not one, but about five masked furry shapes, one large and four small. One by one they clambered back up the rocks and along the fence to the hawthorne hedge.
Raccoon damage
Huntington Beach CA
Canon EOS 1000D
16 July 2009
Well. We'd suspected a raccoon, but not an entire family of them! I know they live around here but this is the first time I've actually seen any. I guess we'll have to bring the box inside.
