The Shadowlit Realms
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What goes thump in the nightIt was a bit past 12 midnight and I was waiting for my computer to finish its virus scan, because it does automatic scans a few times a week, but sometimes I get annoyed with them and cancel them before it finishes, so I hadn't had a complete scan all last week so I thought I should wait for it finish up before closing down for the night.
There was pretty much nothing else going on and I was just hanging out waiting on it, when I heard this noise outside, it was some kind of animal, so I flipped on the back porch lights, and all I could see was a dark shape just around the corner of the house, but I couldn't really tell what it was. I thought it must just be the cats fighting, but the sound didn't sound like cats. I have heard plenty of cats fight before, and something about this seemed off, or it was a particularly viscous cat fight.
Since I was just killing time anyway, I decided to check out what was going on, I went in my room and got my maglite flash light, and then headed out, and just as I was coming outside I saw a racoon dart under the shed. Ok, it was the raccoons I thought, but then what caused it to be so agitated?
I am use to the regular visits of the raccoons, but they have before caused problems among some of the other animals. One of my rabbits got it by a raccoon, so now the hutches have pad locks on the doors and then there was the dove that got taken, I am pretty sure by a coon.
Well I thought maybe the raccoons got into a fight with one of the cats, which could be bad news, but in the past the cats and the raccoons have never been phased by each other. One time, one of the cats was lying on top of one of the patio chairs, and a racoon walked right past it, and they both seemed oblivious to each other. The cats probably know not to mess with the raccoons and the raccoons, don't seem to try and provoke them.
I am looking around, but I don't see any sign of the cats anywhere, nor any evidence of a fight, there were no fur scattered about nor any sign of blood. So I was left quite puzzled, and thought well maybe the raccoons just got into a tiff with each other.
When suddenly I spied the culprit and began to put the pieces together, and it dawned upon me, what most likely must have happened. Yes, the raccoon had a fierce battle with one of those inflatable lounge chairs, that are meant to float in pools.
One other night, when I was sitting here I had heard strange noise outside, and well the raccoons like to walk along the edge around the pool and sometimes they even get into the water to play. So one of the raccoon was up on the rim of the pool and the chair was floating in the water, and because of the wind kept drifting toward the raccoon, and he was totally freaked out by it, and came like hissing and backing away from it.
When the raccoons come around they usually come to eat whatever food is left within the cat food dishes, and at nights here it can get pretty windy, and when I went out I found the chair lying on the ground just in front of where the cats are fed. So what I think happened, the racoon was coming over for a snack and the wind blew the chair over fight in front of him and totally freaked him out because it was like some weird giant green dragon to the racoon.
8:51 AM - 7/20/2009 - post comment
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