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spinbaby

(15,201 posts) Wed Oct 12, 2022, 05:52 PM Oct 2022

There's this raccoon

One of our local trash pandas learned to use the cat door to help himself to the buffet.

We responded by picking up the cat food at night.

The raccoon learned when I served cat breakfast—around 5:30–and came in to help himself to breakfast the minute I left the kitchen to take a shower.

We then locked the cat door—a last resort because the two feral cats who came with the house tend to panic if they’re not free to come and go.

The raccoon sat outside the locked cat door looking pitiful and hungry.

So I made him a sandwich.

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There's this raccoon (Original Post) spinbaby Oct 2022 OP

You are a person after my own heart. MOMFUDSKI Oct 2022 #1

I always let the raccoons ( sometimes 5 at once) come through the cat door and wipe clean sinkingfeeling Oct 2022 #2

I don't really want them in the house spinbaby Oct 2022 #4

Oh, my cat door let my feral cats onto an enclosed back porch. sinkingfeeling Oct 2022 #5

Of course! What else can one do with a pitiful, begging, bandit??? niyad Oct 2022 #3

Awww... 💕 Duppers Oct 2022 #6

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)

1. You are a person after my own heart.

Reply to spinbaby (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2022, 06:05 PM

Oct 2022

I would do the same. Darling story. Thanks.

sinkingfeeling

(53,012 posts)

2. I always let the raccoons ( sometimes 5 at once) come through the cat door and wipe clean

Reply to spinbaby (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2022, 06:24 PM

Oct 2022

the cat bowls.

spinbaby

(15,201 posts)

4. I don't really want them in the house

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 03:35 PM

Oct 2022

They have muddy little feet and I worry they might expand their grocery shopping beyond the cat food and into the kitchen cabinets. Locking the cat door hasn’t worked well—I had one of our feral cats screaming at me at 2:00 A.M. when he discovered he was locked in. Not sure what the next step is.