On the side of our house is a small cemented porch that we never use. Part of my tackle projects is to clean up the area so that we can begin to use it. One of the steps after sweeping it off was to move the planting table to the patio.
The table usually sits right by the front door and is where we feed the cats. So, since I moved their eating table, I moved their food with it. Usually we just put out enough every day for them to eat. I decided to transfer all of their cat food into a waterproof container and leave it underneath the table.
The next morning after doing this, my husband asks where the cat food is. I go outside to show him when the container is missing. I’m dumbfounded as to whom would steal cat food. I chalk it up to neighborhood kids and decide I will just buy some more. That afternoon I’m convinced that I’ve done something with the container and being searching the yard. My husband joins in the search and finds the container near the fence. The lid has claw marks on it. Apparently it wasn’t the neighborhood kids after all.
We figure it must have been a raccoon. Raccoons apparently love cat food. I guess one or a couple took the container to the fence but couldn’t make it any further. Some of the food was eaten.
From now on I will keep the cat food indoors.
by Elizabeth, on June 24 2007 @ 7:13 pm
Raccoon, stray cat, stray dog, skunk…could have been anything. We can’t put our trash can out the night before pickup or it gets strewn all over the yard.
by housewife, on June 24 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Yeah usually the trash is toast if we put it out the night before. Most days it runs before 8am. Except the days that we remember to put it out and then it runs much later.