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Sep. 29th, 2003 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botias
I think the raccoons are washing their finds and generally having a good time in the water bucket. Last night they pretty much covered my new car with muddy raccoon prints. This evening I beaned one of them in the face with a wet dishrag. The two incidents are not unrelated. How to have the water bucket available to the cats but not local wildlife's wild life?
If you had asked me a week ago I would have said there were 2 feral cats around here. A grey tabby with chrome and a ratty old orange tom with a big raw patch on its neck. Turns out these are just the toms. And there were actually two ratty orange toms, both with neck wounds and one with a wasted leg. Feral cats are definitely feral and not wild. The raccoons look sleek and healthy while the cats all look like abandoned children, put through much suffering by the unfortunate combination of being able to just barely survive and the strong mindless inclination to go to the bother. A tiny female and two half grown kittens have suddenly appeared and the kittens especially don't wander far anymore, bringing the total to 6.
If you had asked me a week ago I would have said there were 2 feral cats around here. A grey tabby with chrome and a ratty old orange tom with a big raw patch on its neck. Turns out these are just the toms. And there were actually two ratty orange toms, both with neck wounds and one with a wasted leg. Feral cats are definitely feral and not wild. The raccoons look sleek and healthy while the cats all look like abandoned children, put through much suffering by the unfortunate combination of being able to just barely survive and the strong mindless inclination to go to the bother. A tiny female and two half grown kittens have suddenly appeared and the kittens especially don't wander far anymore, bringing the total to 6.
