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Don't know which I'm longing for more--rain or raccoons.
With rain, the plants in my yard might have a prayer of surviving, and I'd finally get to wear something besides tank top and running shorts.
With raccoons, they'd be in the trap the humane wildlife removal guy brought, and he'd be coming to take them off into the woods. Instead, they're lurking out there in somebody's backyard, waiting for a chance to come through the cat door into my kitchen and open the bags of cat food. I know, because they did that while I was at the beach. Only then, I had Mop with me, so no terrorizing happened. Now I need to go to Chicago, and Mop is opposed to plane trips. She's also opposed to litterboxes. That means I need to hire the kids next door to come in twice a day, blocking and unblocking the cat door, instead of having the experienced and reliable catsitter come every other day.
So I've paid the wildlife guy for a week of trapping that produced no raccoons (I saw one in a cage, one afternoon, but evidently he stepped over the trip bar, because he got out), and now I'm paying for additional cat care. Very expensive, these animals.
We did get some possums, which I wanted to release, but the wildlife guy persuaded me that they do bring diseases and parasites. On the plus side, no more starlings in my eaves--he did fix that problem.
With rain, the plants in my yard might have a prayer of surviving, and I'd finally get to wear something besides tank top and running shorts.
With raccoons, they'd be in the trap the humane wildlife removal guy brought, and he'd be coming to take them off into the woods. Instead, they're lurking out there in somebody's backyard, waiting for a chance to come through the cat door into my kitchen and open the bags of cat food. I know, because they did that while I was at the beach. Only then, I had Mop with me, so no terrorizing happened. Now I need to go to Chicago, and Mop is opposed to plane trips. She's also opposed to litterboxes. That means I need to hire the kids next door to come in twice a day, blocking and unblocking the cat door, instead of having the experienced and reliable catsitter come every other day.
So I've paid the wildlife guy for a week of trapping that produced no raccoons (I saw one in a cage, one afternoon, but evidently he stepped over the trip bar, because he got out), and now I'm paying for additional cat care. Very expensive, these animals.
We did get some possums, which I wanted to release, but the wildlife guy persuaded me that they do bring diseases and parasites. On the plus side, no more starlings in my eaves--he did fix that problem.