Hi!
One thing that may help your food bill, and is strongly suggested anyway since they are wild animals is to stagger feedings. In other words skip a day or two or three, you don't want those babies to become dependant on your handouts
Hi Furballsmom,
Yet there are also cats and raccoons that live happily together. I observed on cam for months the feral cats and raccoons and they ate side by side with one another. I think raccoon attacks are rare. Now a kitten yes but a gull grown cat can outrun a raccoon from my personal observationRaccoons are omnivores and can be dangerous to cats, particularly kittens... I first pinged on this in Show Low, when I caught a large coon lurking near the carport where my two recently-adopted kittens were playing at dusk. I looked it up on the Internet, and sure enough, coons will kill and eat cats if they're hungry enough, and coons are fierce fighters too... there were some ugly pics posted of half-devoured kittens and torn-up cats, just to drive the lesson home. As soon as I discovered this unsettling information, I started locking all the cats down well before dark each day... I even built a sliding wooden hatch to cover the cat door, since a large coon is easily strong enough to break right through the cheesy locks on most cat doors, or break through the door itself. Just sayin'...
I watched the family of raccoons here eating the food while the kids played with the cats. It's wise to always be cautious though. I live in the suburbs so there is always food around somewhere. I have seen more cat attack cat then cat being attacked by other wildlifeTrue, some cats & coons get along, just throwin' out a warning for those who aren't aware of the potential danger from coons, particularly large & hungry coons who'll gladly eat kittens for a meal. There are also documented attacks on adult cats who got too close to a hungry coon, or interfered with a coon enough to make it angry. Don't get me wrong, I like coons, they're very intelligent and they are indeed fierce fighters, but not really the best choice as playmates for cats.
While raccoons are cute and the ones here have got along well with my cats I won't be upset if they were relocated elsewhere as they made a major 5,000 damage to our property.I read somewhere that raccoons are distantly related to wolverines & bears, which would certainly explain their fierceness when riled. They can be mean critters, though most of the time they just do their own thing.
That's an expensive bird feeder!
Haha. Wish it was just the bird feeder. They gnawed at the wood under our porch and steps, tore bricks out of the ground, and dug a ton of holes in our yard.That's an expensive bird feeder!
I never heard of zombie disease. My raccoons do come out in the daylight sometimes just to eat. They don't bother me or the cats.
Officials are still trying to find the den. I hate this. Rocky was such a sweet raccoon as he was someone's pet and I'm more than confident these are his descendants but we can't have them running around attacking pets and children. I have never been in a position where I was totally surrounded by 6 raccoons in broad daylight. They don't even have babies at this time so there has to be some kind of disease they are suffering from. I'm just hoping they aren't getting to acclimated to humans.
