05-13-2009, 05:59 AM
I keep a Rubbermaid container of dry cat food near the backdoor for the yard cats. It's been there for years & I replenish it with the cheapest stuff I can find.
A few days ago it was missing. My yard is fenced & I hadn't seen evidence of dogs digging under or jumping over the fence, which made this all the more odd. I walked around the yard looking for it & checked the kitchen thinking that maybe I had brought it inside for some reason, but it was gone.
I found a plastic coffee can with a lid & used that for cat food storage. Life goes on.
Earlier this evening I heard the outside food bowl being scraped over concrete & grabbed the flashlight & went out to see what it was. A cat will never move a bowl when it eats but dogs do so I figured a dog had gotten in the yard.
I wasn't prepared to find a giant raccoon scraping the food container over the concrete trying to get the top off. This thing might've weighed 25-30 pounds; it was BIG! It stopped & hissed at me then scurried over the fence & disappeared into the privot thicket next door.
I think I can safely assume that this raccoon, or one of its brethren, made off with the Rubbermaid cat food container.
A few days ago it was missing. My yard is fenced & I hadn't seen evidence of dogs digging under or jumping over the fence, which made this all the more odd. I walked around the yard looking for it & checked the kitchen thinking that maybe I had brought it inside for some reason, but it was gone.
I found a plastic coffee can with a lid & used that for cat food storage. Life goes on.
Earlier this evening I heard the outside food bowl being scraped over concrete & grabbed the flashlight & went out to see what it was. A cat will never move a bowl when it eats but dogs do so I figured a dog had gotten in the yard.
I wasn't prepared to find a giant raccoon scraping the food container over the concrete trying to get the top off. This thing might've weighed 25-30 pounds; it was BIG! It stopped & hissed at me then scurried over the fence & disappeared into the privot thicket next door.
I think I can safely assume that this raccoon, or one of its brethren, made off with the Rubbermaid cat food container.