My dad says that they have a bit of a raccoon problem - this one raccoon keeps eating all their cat food. Dad knows when it’s there, because Tessa totally spazzes at the big glass door at it. He said the bugger climbs up the sundeck roof’s post onto the roof, and over the house to climb down a tree. He also said he was chasing it all over the other day, because the sundeck roof is semi-opaque and he could see it sitting up there, lol!

I asked him where the heck their cats were during all this, I mean one’s a scaredy-cat and the other’s old, and they both spend more than half their time asleep on the deck. He said, oh, they were laying in the corner, watching. Both cats know plenty better than to tangle with a raccoon - I remember one time when he was a lot younger (he was a punk), Tuffy saw a young raccoon shuffling along the fenceline on the other side of the yard and thought it was another cat invading his territory. He went tearing across the yard to beat up the cat, and when he got about 10 feet away it hissed and he realized what it really was - he made a sharp turn and run under the camper to hide and watch. That’s a blessing.

But dad’s still pretty annoyed that it keeps eating all the cat food!