Sunday AM up early at 5AM so I can watch EPL Man U vs. Liverpool, live 5:30 AM.
Let the dogs and the cat out. Dogs do business then perimeter check, nothing unusual. Cat is usually checking in one or two directions comes back in 30-90 minutes.
Get in chair, game will start in a few minutes, check bitog, email, etc. 5 minutes later, I hear cat jumping the gate to the protected patio (decorative but substantial bambo fencing on standard posts and rails), but he sounds kind of clumsy. Cat comes to sliding door by family room (typical) -I had glass open, just HD screen with criiter guard, so I let cat in, kinda irritated I had to get up (dogs are laying by me)......freaking cat looks like he lost a cat fight real bad, his first loss (he usually kicks butt and is large). He's panting HARD. Hair hanging out all over, kinda bloody but not dripping blood that I can see. Well, no vets open yet, he can man up and heal. He's limping and weak, but he lays down.
Dern cat, I missed a goal (the only goal!). Odd that I did not hear the usual cat fight.
Some time passes, maybe 15 minutes. I hear one of the animals at the back door again. Wait - cat there, dogs here..............WTH? Walk to door and huge raccoon is trying to slide door. Rather than run to gun room, I yell like a flipping Tasmanian devil and the dogs are in full attack mode, 'coon backs away, maybe 6 feet. I open door and dogs are apepoop. (mistake, I should have got .22 lever or .45ACP Carbine) . Coon does NOT run! This surprises even the dogs, so female dog decides she's not so brave anymore. Black male dog has plenty of fight left in him, but I don't want the vet bills, so I call him off and he obeyed commands perfectly.
Now what??? This raccoon is NOT leaving the patio. She started kitteh snack and she wants to finish it - and I look on other side of fence and there are 7 or so large teen coons. Patio chair in hand I march forward poking at said coon with chair leg. I guess by now, all the noise woke the wife up. That woman can sleep. Coon now sees two humans two dogs and decides kat ain't for breakfast today.
Wife makes assessment that cat needs treatment. $700+ dollars worth, cat looks pretty sad. Puncture wounds throughout. One bite wound on face. Huge tear on his [censored] with drainage tube. Feet really mangled up. He'll live - antibiotics, painkillers...... no holes in dogs.
I'm ready next time - I was waiting last night and this AM, no raccoons showed up.
Pictures of cat:
Drain tube and collection vial held by cool red sweater unit (soft cone of shame)
Small face wound (hard cone of shame)
Let the dogs and the cat out. Dogs do business then perimeter check, nothing unusual. Cat is usually checking in one or two directions comes back in 30-90 minutes.
Get in chair, game will start in a few minutes, check bitog, email, etc. 5 minutes later, I hear cat jumping the gate to the protected patio (decorative but substantial bambo fencing on standard posts and rails), but he sounds kind of clumsy. Cat comes to sliding door by family room (typical) -I had glass open, just HD screen with criiter guard, so I let cat in, kinda irritated I had to get up (dogs are laying by me)......freaking cat looks like he lost a cat fight real bad, his first loss (he usually kicks butt and is large). He's panting HARD. Hair hanging out all over, kinda bloody but not dripping blood that I can see. Well, no vets open yet, he can man up and heal. He's limping and weak, but he lays down.
Dern cat, I missed a goal (the only goal!). Odd that I did not hear the usual cat fight.
Some time passes, maybe 15 minutes. I hear one of the animals at the back door again. Wait - cat there, dogs here..............WTH? Walk to door and huge raccoon is trying to slide door. Rather than run to gun room, I yell like a flipping Tasmanian devil and the dogs are in full attack mode, 'coon backs away, maybe 6 feet. I open door and dogs are apepoop. (mistake, I should have got .22 lever or .45ACP Carbine) . Coon does NOT run! This surprises even the dogs, so female dog decides she's not so brave anymore. Black male dog has plenty of fight left in him, but I don't want the vet bills, so I call him off and he obeyed commands perfectly.
Now what??? This raccoon is NOT leaving the patio. She started kitteh snack and she wants to finish it - and I look on other side of fence and there are 7 or so large teen coons. Patio chair in hand I march forward poking at said coon with chair leg. I guess by now, all the noise woke the wife up. That woman can sleep. Coon now sees two humans two dogs and decides kat ain't for breakfast today.
Wife makes assessment that cat needs treatment. $700+ dollars worth, cat looks pretty sad. Puncture wounds throughout. One bite wound on face. Huge tear on his [censored] with drainage tube. Feet really mangled up. He'll live - antibiotics, painkillers...... no holes in dogs.
I'm ready next time - I was waiting last night and this AM, no raccoons showed up.
Pictures of cat:
Drain tube and collection vial held by cool red sweater unit (soft cone of shame)
Small face wound (hard cone of shame)
