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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2008Mooch's bodyguard
It's spring, the time of year when Canadian raccoons emerge starving from hibernation and look for food. It's also still chilly, but despite that I've put a chair on the veranda so I can guard our resident stray Mooch's food early in the morning. I sit a couple of feet from him in a big winter jacket, guarding the front steps from intruders. Three days ago it was a ravenous raccoon, and yesterday a hungry cat, but they both took off when I stood up. Meanwhile Mooch munched on, oblivious to his one-man protection agency's efforts on his behalf.However, as they say in the hair commercials on TV, he's worth it. > It's spring, the time of year when Canadian raccoons emerge starving from > hibernation and look for food. It's also still chilly, but despite that [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > protection agency's efforts on his behalf.However, as they say in the hair > commercials on TV, he's worth it. You might be interested in this cat feeding station: <http://www.thewildones.net/raccoons.htm> The concept is simple: cats can leap and coons can't - put the food on a surface at least a yard or meter from any place coons can climb to. I adapted the concept to make a coon and possum proof cat flap by putting a shelf on the outside (and inside) wall about a meter's diagnal leap from the top back step and installing the flap through the wall. All but one of my cats have no trouble with it (the one that does is extremely old and frail).  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@mst.edu) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). > You might be interested in this cat feeding station: > <http://www.thewildones.net/raccoons.htm> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > frail). > T.E.D. A good suggestion, T.E.D. unfortunately in Mooch's case it won't work for two reasons. First, Mooch always takes his meals on the veranda, which in the summer we'll furnish with garden furniture, and there'll be no room for a device which cats can reach but raccoons can't. Second, some of his potential food-bandits are cats which can leap across or up to the food, so we're back to square one. I'm afraid that I'll have to continue my daily vigil as Mooch's bodyguard! > A good suggestion, T.E.D. unfortunately in Mooch's case it won't work for > two reasons. First, Mooch always takes his meals on the veranda, which in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > so we're back to square one. I'm afraid that I'll have to continue my > daily vigil as Mooch's bodyguard! My patio table (glass top, legs that cross and fold up) comes close to being coon resistant. To keep other cats out of the food, it's necessary only to provide a support (an upturned box, perhaps) that is just large enough for one cat and a food bowl - it's highly unlikely that a strange cat would try to displace the resident in that situation. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@mst.edu) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). > It's spring, the time of year when Canadian raccoons emerge starving > from hibernation and look for food. It's also still chilly, but [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > his behalf.However, as they say in the hair commercials on TV, he's > worth it. Cats want you to know your place. ;) SignatureTheresa, Stinky and Dante drtmuirATearthlink.net Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh > "Bobcat" <bob_c...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > ...Mooch munched on, oblivious to his one-man protection agency's efforts on > > his behalf. However, as they say in the hair commercials on TV, he's > > worth it. > Cats want you to know your place. ;) > Theresa, Stinky and Dante Indeed. Usually when I reach down with his food and water bowls, Mooch's face is only inches away from my hand. But occasionally he shies away a couple of feet as if to say "You're here to feed me, chum, not to touch me!" |
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