i've seen a racoon come in our house a couple of times now to eat the catfood. i got a picture the once!
last night, balu & i went out for some yummy italian food and, when we got home, i had laundry to do but was too tired to actually DO it, so instead layed on the floor in front of the sliding glass door with my feet up on the couch. a few minutes later, elliot walked over to do the door, looked out, and ran away looking a bit concerned. two seconds later, a racoon head popped in.
he came in, used his little hands to swipe some of the catfood, and took it back to the doorway to eat it. he was all of three feet from me and completely unconcerned. cute little guy - the way they use their hands is really amusing. i'll try to get a better pic one of these nights. :)
Nice shot Stacy. I see them almost every night before I get home on the street right before I get to my house, It would seem that having a Mac D , Windys and Sonnys close by the woods seems to draw them in for leftovers. They just like your catfood. I not sure my dog would let them get close to his dish but they are crafty animals.
PS I happy for you that your jobs working out. That alway a good thing! Tom
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
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