Country Living

Living in the country is sometimes quite eventful. We have several dogs and cats. That being said, we also have lots of varmints that come up to the house at night looking for dog or cat food that hasn't been eaten. These are brave souls because they usually get scared off when the dogs and cats catch their scents. But yesterday morning about 6:30 the dogs in our backyard started barking and barking and barking. I knew that they had something in the tree. Yep, I was right. This poor raccoon has been up in our tree in the back yard for more than 24 hours now. I finally let the dogs in the house long enough for him to get down. Andy and the girls tried talking to him in "raccoon talk" to tell him that it was okay to get down. It took him about a hour to finally relax enough to realize that the dogs were gone and that he could get down. It was quite an event around here. I had the big dogs in the house. They were stinky! Pew! Then our puppies heard the dogs in the house and they can go through the fence in the back yard so they came to the back door. So, I thought, well I will feed the puppies in the front yard so to get them out of the back yard. Well, as soon as I opened the door, our cats came in the house. Bad idea, the big dogs HATE cats. So, I had to fight the cats and get them back outside before the big dogs got a hold of them. Needless to say, I am all scratched up this morning. But, all is well. The coon is gone, the dogs are all outside and fed, and the cats are inside and safe! Whew! What a morning! All because of a hungry and curious coon! Ahhh....country life!