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This is my pumpkin patch. Having grandchildren brought back my love of gardening, so I thought, why not do pumpkins?
Looking at you from behind the fence is someone who earned the same name because - well - there she was. Every morning our raccoon neighbors show up to the back door for cookies, which we hand to them like they were trick or treating. They are so very polite and it never fails to give us a smile. I then take them peanuts, cheese doodles, and cookies for breakfast. We have a little bit of everything back here as it's a nature preserve, but the raccoons are by far the friendliest.
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Looking at you from behind the fence is someone who earned the same name because - well - there she was. Every morning our raccoon neighbors show up to the back door for cookies, which we hand to them like they were trick or treating. They are so very polite and it never fails to give us a smile. I then take them peanuts, cheese doodles, and cookies for breakfast. We have a little bit of everything back here as it's a nature preserve, but the raccoons are by far the friendliest.
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Oh yes... and they work it so good too. We actually give them names, and sometimes I can recognize them. Teeny and Tiny, for instance, are brother and sister and always begin in the tree near the feeder. Teeny always gets a moonpie. Lefty comes out from the left side of the fence and is still shy. Cookie comes from the center/right, and she'll almost sit in my lap.
Grumpy, on the other paw, tries to run everyone else off, though she's civil to me. I noticed this morning she has ninnies, so she probably has kits or is about to.
I love them all...
Vix
Grumpy, on the other paw, tries to run everyone else off, though she's civil to me. I noticed this morning she has ninnies, so she probably has kits or is about to.
I love them all...
Vix
We use to feed them on our back porch until too many fights and too much damage. Now we feed them off the lower back porch but only a few times a month and always variable in when so there's no set schedule. This way they kinda know to check but they don't hang around 24-7 like they did before. Also got them a watering spot that they enjoy.... as do the deer and the fox and the possums and the skunks and even those evil armadillos. :-| We got the deer a mineral block this year and it's already gone. We'll get another for the summer.
Cool. We try to do the food according to seasons and critters. Like, in the spring (mating season) they're pretty busy elsewhere so we don't put out much at all. In the heat of the summer it's more about water than food but we do both. In the fall it's time to feed the winter critters (squirrels and other simi-hibernators) so they can get their stores filled. Hummers in spring and fall. Bird food when it's bad weather. We prefer to think of what we do as a 'bonus help' to their natural lives... not to be something they constantly depend on but can lean on when they wish/need. Besides... with all the sweet raccoons and such comes things like bears... of which we had one wandering up the UPPER deck of our back porch not long ago when mom was home alone. Scary.
Raccoons are cool. My mate and I used to feed them when they came around, and yes, they were very friendly.
Our philosophy was that if we fed the raccoons and kept them happy, they would stay out of our vegetable garden, and it worked. They were fun to have around.
Our philosophy was that if we fed the raccoons and kept them happy, they would stay out of our vegetable garden, and it worked. They were fun to have around.
We had a kit join our feral cats, they were making their way into the world and found an easy weigh station with dry food and water our TNRs shared with them. The little one would line up for chow chow with the cats and it was a pleasure watching them eat with those little hands.
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