Kitty Update

We returned home after being gone almost 3 weeks to find the food jar ripped off of the feeder and the food bin, tray and entire area picked clean of any morsel of cat food—Raccoons are back.

I had no way of knowing when the raccoons cleaned things out but there were no cats around that first evening home. The feeder still works fine. The mechanism itself is raccoon hardened now. I got lax about how securely I attached the big plastic jar of additional food to the top of the feeder. I thought we had o aggressive critters around.

Velcro was first to show on Monday followed by Buzz and later Marmalade on Tuesday. Marmalade spent the night sleeping outside the back door and has been out there all day today begging for food and attention. Meredith hasn’t shown her face yet—I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

I’ve set up the raccoon trap once again and will try once again to rid the area of the critters. Thus the Rocky IV story begins.

Now for something completely different—I just heard a local news story about a preacher who was just arrested because they found his dead wife in his freezer. Evidently he killed her4 years ago, buried her, moved her and buried her again and then out of fear the body would be found, dug it up again and put it in his freezer. The story didn’t say how the frozen body was found. This would be a perfect story for those CSI shows.

UPDATE--8:45 PM-- I just caught a big raccoon. If the cage holds him overnight I will bring him out to join Rockies I, II and III in the morning.