A Masked Bandit

I slept on the recliner last night to see if it would help my shoulder. It’s been waking me up throbbing at 3:30 AM. The Dr suggested that sleeping flat might be the cause. The recliner seems to have worked, but as with everything there was a complication to the night’s sleep.


The recliner is in the sunroom and my super MOD III cat feeder (still going strong) is just outside the glass door there. At about 10:30 I hear a racket out there and look up to see one of the cats dashing away from the feeder. I grabbed a flashlight and looked out to see a raccoon nonchalantly trying to figure out how to get at the stored food. Now a raccoon can do some serious damage so I opened the door and chased him away.


Since I was awake again I watched the end of the World Series game and then began to doze off when again - noise out side and Brie sitting there watching the raccoon at the feeder. I went over to the door and shined the light at the creature. He came right up to the glass, with me shining directly into his face, and sniffs the glass. Then he goes back to the feeder to try to break into it. Once again I chased him off.


Today it rained all day, but I made the area more difficult for the coon to negotiate. Tomorrow I need to protect the food supply so he cant get it.

When we got back from our vacation we found that there were 3 new kittens using the feeder. That’s bad news because we don’t need more cats, but kittens sure are cute to watch.