A little before dusk I went next door to visit the neighbour for a drink on their "patio". Not long after single mom Rocky wandered over with her rambunctious little kitties making a racket as they played climbing in and out of the big cedar tree and chasing Bebe the neighbours cat around if he got too close for comfort. They grow up so fast. You have to enjoy these moments.........!!😃
I was just scrolling through posts and saw yours on Critters, great photos BTW. I'm glad we don't have skunks or coyotes on Vancouver Island, lots of raccoon though. They come at night and get into the bird feeders, occasionally even taking the feeders away with them. I assume they want to dig the seeds out of them at their leisure or maybe just to play with. I don't seem to get out and take pics of them, they tend to scamper up trees and disappear. Got a few good pics of baby owls once though, had to use a flashlight to illuminate them.
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Yes thats my roof or more correctly my landlord the owners roof. Maintenance is at a bare minimum. We do what we can....but that's after a winter season of rain. We do clear it off each spring, the summer's sun burns the rest of it off and the whole process starts all over come fall. We are part of the solution to make Vancouver a green city!😃🌿☘🌱
This one doesn't show up very often but gets a fair amount of attention when it does.
Lol....clever use my own pics to illustrate your point! Max was too quick up a tree and in the house for Bitey to even have a chance. Marcus likes to hang with the skunks and Minty holds her own against Rock's kits but concedes her food when presented with more than one. The squirrels stay up in the trees or they can be the catch of the day.
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@darlicious wrote:David Suzuki and The Nature of Things had an excellent documentary about raccoons in Toronto a few years ago....very insightful.
So, just out of curiosity, did that documentary include any info about the hazards of raccoon latrines, and anything about the likelihood of them killing cats? 🤔
As for Max & Bitey, good on Max, but kittehs are often on coyotes' menus...... fortunately, Bitey must've not been THAT hungry, and Max must've been too difficult to be made into a meal. 👍
What Max and kits look like to Bitey !!...
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Of course I don't want them inside.....that was quite a few years ago like 2013 when Rocky had 5 kits to feed and in 2017 when we had such dry spring she couldn't feed the kits on a normal diet of grubs and worms and such because the ground was so hard packed. But you had to bring up Bitey didn't you? The reason it took so long for the conservation officers so long to find him was he was crashing out in our backyard! Max kept him in line though.....
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I suppose I could worry about rabies but raccoons are habituated to city life and have very defined territories that they stick to rarely crossing boundaries into anothers. So I much prefer Rocky the raccoon that we do know than one we don't know..... David Suzuki and The Nature of Things had an excellent documentary about raccoons in Toronto a few years ago....very insightful.
Luckily these guys were thwarted before they were able to fully move into our house and are still living next door. Bear repellent is very effective deterrent for lots of critters.
It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh its nothing....
Rocky the raccoon has been a very successful mother over the years even with her handicap. She has wandered in the house looking for cat food. We caught her climbing over my tv in the bedroom in the middle of the night and she broke the lid of my crock pot climbing up a shelf in the kitchen to steal a bag of bagels after she came thru the cat door.
