Not so rural living

[brain55]

We live in a sub-division in Northern California probably 200 yards from an open field and a quarter mile from many orchards. Definitely not what I would consider rural, our lot is a whopping 8000 square feet.

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago we got tired of the cats waking us up to go out in the middle of the night so I bought a cat door. One of the type that slides into the opening of a sliding glass door. Over the last two weeks only one of our three cats had figured out how to use it. Last night at about 3:30 am I heard the one cat go out and a couple of minutes later I heard scratching at the door so I looked over to see which one of the other 2 cats were trying to come in. I saw a bushy tail and 2 silhouettes and thought it was odd that both of the other cats would be trying to come in at the same time. So I got up to help them with the flap since they still hadn't got the hang of it.

To my surprise it was a family of four beautiful raccoons. I am very happy that I woke up. I can only imagine the outcome of 4 raccoons in the house in the middle of the night. So much for the cat door.

Brian

 

[Mousefield]

Those raccoons are everywhere. Good thing they didn't get into the house or there could be a big mess to clean up. Just so you know raccoons will kill cats as well.

 

[jinman]

Sounds like you live just "Over the Hedge."

Be glad it wasn't skunks...

 

[bullbreaker]

Brian
Maybe you could offer a "coonskin hat" for free to anyone that buys a Bota rebuilt tractor from you.
Boone

 

[brain55]

Brian
Maybe you could offer a "coonskin hat" for free to anyone that buys a Bota rebuilt tractor from you.
Boone

I'm sure here in California there is some kind of law against killing and skinning raccoons. Heck, I might have even broken the law by not letting them in my house.

Brian

 

[mmurphy]

I'm sure here in California there is some kind of law against killing and skinning raccoons. Heck, I might have even broken the law by not letting them in my house.

Brian

Nancy Pelosi may have you arrested!!!

 

[NSBound]

They have cat doors with magnetic releases, so the door only opens for the cat with the thing on its collar, nothing else. Maybe worth checking into!

 

[redberankubota]

Raccoons are NASTY .... they have killed many of our chickens and it`s not pretty. They typically don`t even eat them , they just kill them for fun I guess...they got four little ones through 1in. welded wire that was only on one of the four sides, on a 2ft.X4ft. cage I built a couple years ago , by working in tandem.:smiley_aafz:

I can`t even fathom what might have happened had they got into your home:shocked:

 

[brain55]

They have cat doors with magnetic releases, so the door only opens for the cat with the thing on its collar, nothing else. Maybe worth checking into!

That is what I would have preferred to get in the first place, but our cats won't wear collars. They almost immediately pull them off.

Brian

 

[MtHam]

Having been through the coons in the house thing, we use the magnetic collar type cat door for our three cats with success. Having lost several collars, I switched to "wire tye" collars, adjusted so they can't come off, and it works well.