So I made 5 new furry friends tonight :) They are adorable! There has been a family of raccoons around the area and tonight I saw them in our back yard. It is a good sized mother and she has 4 babies and one of the 4 is the runt of the litter and has a limp. So anyway because I love animals and wanted to get a good look at them, I threw an old peach and chopped up an old hot dog for them and about 5 minutes later two of the young ones came out and gobbled up the hot dog pieces. Then later the other 3 came out looking for some so I gave them two more hot dogs and they happily gobbled those up. So then they hung around for a while and momma was watching me expectantly to give her something. But I was worried because the babies were trying to eat an old piece of steel wool I left out there after I cleaned out the bird cage with it, so it had like bird poo and some remains of food that was left in it from cleaning the sink and dishes. Well anyway I was sitting at my computer and I could hear a scratching sound and I looked outside and there was a couple of the young raccoons pawing at the screen door. When I opened the inside door they only shied a little bit but they were watching me and a couple of the little ones were sniffing at me from behind the screen door. Oh they are so cute! And I keep hearing them returning XD
I think they got in a bit of a tussle with the neighbor's dog, hopefully the dog was ok, it is only a little Pomeranian I think and the momma is a bit bigger then the little dog o.o