Lilaena De'Ville
Aug 3rd, 2006, 01:32:22 AM
My house was almost broken into last night. While I was in it, alone with my kitties.
I had the back sliding door open, with the screen closed and a fan going, to circulate some cool air inside the house. I could see two of my cats, but the third one was somewhere out of sight. Then I heard something - like claws on the sliding screen door. I thought, and rightly so I think, that my third cat Sammy was testing his tiny claws on the screen, and thought nothing more of it.
Then a few moments later I glance over at the screen... and it is OPENING. It was about a third of the way open.
Sammy is a little black kitten, and it was dark out, so I freaked out that somehow he was opening the screen and ran over and closed it. I couldn't see him anywhere, but it was dark outside (as I said) and he's black, so I thought maybe he'd gotten outside and I couldn't see him.
I flip on the backyard floodlight...
...and there's an enormous raccoon waddling away from my back deck. He's stopping and looking at me, and then starts to come back, and so I clapped my hands a bit to scare him off.
I almost had a big, disease ridden raccoon in my kitchen. The scary part is that up until about ten minutes before this happened I was in my office with the door closed. I never would have known what was going on until he was already inside eating my kittens. and killing my big cat. ^_^;
It was pretty freaky!
I had the back sliding door open, with the screen closed and a fan going, to circulate some cool air inside the house. I could see two of my cats, but the third one was somewhere out of sight. Then I heard something - like claws on the sliding screen door. I thought, and rightly so I think, that my third cat Sammy was testing his tiny claws on the screen, and thought nothing more of it.
Then a few moments later I glance over at the screen... and it is OPENING. It was about a third of the way open.
Sammy is a little black kitten, and it was dark out, so I freaked out that somehow he was opening the screen and ran over and closed it. I couldn't see him anywhere, but it was dark outside (as I said) and he's black, so I thought maybe he'd gotten outside and I couldn't see him.
I flip on the backyard floodlight...
...and there's an enormous raccoon waddling away from my back deck. He's stopping and looking at me, and then starts to come back, and so I clapped my hands a bit to scare him off.
I almost had a big, disease ridden raccoon in my kitchen. The scary part is that up until about ten minutes before this happened I was in my office with the door closed. I never would have known what was going on until he was already inside eating my kittens. and killing my big cat. ^_^;
It was pretty freaky!