a Thanksgiving for the wee beasts...

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randi

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this is just soooo special and dear, I had to share it with you.

A girlfriend called me to wish us a happy T'day and catch-up. she has two ferral cats hanging around that she feeds.

she put out a dish of food for them. a little bit later, she looked out the window to see if they had finished their food. there, eating at the dish, were the two kitties and next to them, a raccoon and a red fox, all eating together peacefully and content.

what a heart song!

 
Wow. That's incredible. Around here, the foxes eat the kitties. (my raccoons

have me hooked now that the chipmunks have gone to bed. I find myself putting out 2 bowls for them every night. It's amazing what they will eat!)

Nice story. Hope she had a camera.

 
Awwwww! It sounds like a Hallmark moment. I don't dare leave bowls...

of unattended food out around here anymore. I live in an area people call skunk hollow. There aren't that many (skunks) around here anymore, but after I heard that my neighbour had to tear down and rebuild his porch after one died under it........yuh. Don't want to encourage them back smileys/surprise.gif

 
uh oh, I told my friend she didn't have to worry about the fox and the cats..

being together. I thought foxes were into rodents. evidently, this one was more interested in cat food than eating cats, whew!

I miss my raccoons. at our old house, they would come to the slidding glass door in the back and I would bring them out a dish of cat food. they were just so dear!

I did find out that one of my neighbor's was feeding "Baby" after I moved. when she had pups, she come for food and then just pass out and sleep on my doorstep. she was just a little thing.

 
she didn't get a picture of them, all but the raccoon were camera shy "-))

I don't think I'd want to encourage skunks either Ruth. geeze, the entire deck, it must have really been bad :-0

 
Just a word of warning...

the foxes here really do go after the cats. It was not unusual to hear the yelp of a fox and find him at the base of a tree crying for the taste of the wee kitty that had (thankfully) made it up. They could sit there for hours. They went after the smaller ones, but eventually must have starved or moved on to more nutritious territory.

I really got my exercise a few years ago when the foxes were still around as they could leap our 5 foot fence and lie in wait for my little guy. (unsuccessfully)

 
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