![]() ![]() ![]() Had the raccoon been living there just since then? Well-yes, apparently so-but to be more exact it was living underneath my neighbor's shed, which sits on dirt and backs up against our shared fence. I swear it couldn't have been more than three weeks since I had been back there putting something away (wheel-barrow, ladder, etc). Scat everywhere! On the shed roof, in its rain-gutter, and littering the concrete space between the fence. The next morning when I looked on the far side of shed I was horrified by what I found. Seeing one sunning itself so blatantly was definitely unusual, and could be a sign of a malady. Here in the city you almost never spot raccoons in the daytime, or at least we never have. I didn't have time to grab my camera but afterward we did discuss things like distemper and rabies. I called my wife over and we both watched the critter watching us until it finally moved out of sight behind the roof of our shed, which parallels the fence, all the while balancing on the pickets like a gymnast. It was late in the day, maybe two hours before sunset. You see, about a month ago I noticed a large raccoon sitting atop the cedar fence in my back yard. For this year's Halloween article I was going to post some traditional cover art featuring ghouls, ghosts and goblins, but after a recent encounter of the critter kind I decided to switch to beasts instead. ![]()
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