Posts Tagged ‘raccoons’
The cutest thing in the berries!
After dog walking tonight, I wandered down to the berry hedge to see what was up. And to check on tomatoes and peppers of course.
I walked around to the east side and yes, still plenty of berries not being eaten up by bugs yet.
Got to the end and looked up. There is something furry sitting there. Is that a possum? A raccoon? It’s awful small…. a baby something.
Went back around to the west (the side that faces the house) and had a better look without sun glaring in my eyes. I thought it was a cat, but all our cats are at the house having their dinner kibble.
It’s a baby raccoon. No, didn’t think about running back to the house for my camera. I just couldn’t believe that a raccoon of any size would be sleeping in the berries. He was perched way up high, and sound asleep. Oh, he’d shift every so often, but you could still tell he was sound asleep. Wish I’d thought of my camera!
Where is his Momma? I look down and there are lots of trails beaten into the grass and mulch and stuff. Evidently this guy went to sleep and Momma left him. Perhaps all the berries are NOT being eaten by bugs, but by raccoons! Heck, the raccoons are probably eating any bugs in the berries, too.
Poor little guy. Left in the berry hedge. But now I know why my dogs are way interested in the berries these days.
And maybe that burrow under the berry hedge has a Momma Raccoon, not a family of armadillos! I thought raccoons lived in trees, but you never know… and raccoons sticking close would explain why I’m missing an 8 week old kitten and one of my adult cats has chunks of flesh missing from his back.
(otoh, Sadie HAS been interested in eating berries lately… she has to stop to pull berries off the wild blackberries and when I took her to our berry hedge she was eating those, too. But only right off the vine… pick one for her and she turns her nose up at it, goofy dog)
Other news: I’m back to work on Monday. There will be a whole lot less late night posts from me. But I got called back to work like I was on lay off… and I’d thought I was fired. I’ve had a nice vacation, nearly 6 months of it and all thru the good part of the year. Was getting serious about finding another job, but nothing is really out there that I can do. So the job call back is a good thing.
hugs,
Vyx
