MEMORIAL DAY RACON ENCOUNTER
On Friday night of Memorial day weekend Mary finally got her chance to pet a raccoon who we quickly named "Kitty".
Kitty was very small, about the size of a softball. He was sitting on our window sill outside. It looked like his mom had accidentally left him there. He was acting sick but after we gave him a bowl of water he quickly sprung back to life and wolfed down a few black oil sunflower seeds. After playing with him for four hours we closed the window and in the morning he was gone.
We've since seen a mama with three babies and we think Kitty is one of them. He appears to be doing fine, one of the late batches of racon babies this year.
Lessons learned:
1. Raccoons are NOT soft, not even the babies
2. When you add water to a dry raccoon, they get bitey
