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Friday, March 28, 2008

Dudley Had A Visitor Today ...

# posted by JDP @ 10:50 AM

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I have possums and racoons come up on my porch every night and eat the cat food. I watch them on the monitor. They never hurt anything and I kind of like watching them, so I don't go out and startle them. The cats steer clear of the racoons but they rub up against the possums. Maybe they think they are cats.

# posted by

Anonymous : March 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM

Don't have any of them here in Utah. The pictures I've seen always look like a big mangy rat to me.

# posted by

BobG : March 28, 2008 at 1:23 PM

Hermit, we live near a large creek and get possums and racoons as well. Like yours, they come up on the porch looking for cat food. It was kind of unusual to see a possum out in the middle of the day, they usually don't venture out until after dark.

JDP

# posted by

JDP : March 28, 2008 at 2:02 PM

BobG, I agree, they look like a big long tailed rat. Can you believe people have been known to eat those nasty things.

JDP

# posted by

JDP : March 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM

We have both possums and raccoons. The possums rarely show their faces. The raccoons are usually roadkill, except for the one that decided to make himself comfy in my garage one summer afternoon.

# posted by

terri : March 28, 2008 at 6:31 PM

Terri, it was unusual to see a possum out in the day time. One day during a thunderstorm, a loud clap of thunder caused three baby raccoons to run out of a hollow tree and down this same fence. It was pretty amazing, they were so small.

JDP

# posted by

JDP : March 28, 2008 at 10:41 PM

Let me tell you about possums and raccoons...we had a crawl space under our home and they ate the cats (15 cats) food next door and came over to our house to spend the night/day. They tore out all our insulation...it was a big mess. Finally got it all boarded up and they can't get in now. We live in the city and they provided the traps for us. 6 possums and 6 raccoons..I was so glad that now we have peace under our house...
PS: Oh, the cats would have kittens and guess where they would have them? Under our house of course!

# posted by

Marian Ann Love : March 29, 2008 at 7:11 PM

Marian, I am glad you got the critters out from under your house. I bet they can be destructive.

JDP

# posted by

JDP : March 29, 2008 at 7:42 PM

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Name: JDP

Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States

I am 61 years of age, married with two children, a son age 31 and a daughter age 28. I was forced to retire in 2001 due to health problems. I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy a short time later. I worked for fifteen years in the Insurance Claims business. I then worked for about five years for the State Of Texas Department of Human Services. Being disabled and not working is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. My respiratory system is weak and I have to sleep and breath with the aid of a Bipap machine and an oxygen concentrator. This has all but stopped me from making overnight trips away from home due to the equipment being bulky and not easy to move and set up. I have for the most part had to give up the things I loved to do the most which were hunting and fishing. I also can't drive my 1983 Jeep CJ-5 any longer because it has a standard transmission. It is now in my son's hands. I hope he takes good care of it. Being disabled sucks. I am taking it one day at a time. My children are a blessing though they can be trying at times. We have an american eskimo dog named Foxy we got from a rescue organization and a stray cat my daughter named White Kitty.

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