Kid 1, running down the stairs last night.
Me: What’s going on?
Kid 1: I ordered food and the driver can’t get out of the car because he’s surrounded by bobcats! :dashes out the front door::
Me: Did she just say bobcats?
Gordon gets up and heads to the door.
I present to you the pack of scary bobcats that terrified the food delivery driver. Here is one of the vicious beasts devouring the cat food.
Have you ever seen something more horrible?
Oh no, black and white squirrel, don’t come over, you’ll get eaten!
Look at the carnage. Look at it.
There were about 5 or 6 cute little foxes. They were utterly adorable, but now we for sure have to figure out some way to feed the cats off the ground. We tried doing the barrel shaped food dispenser on top of the cat shelter before, but the raccoons unscrewed it and stole all of the food.
And that concludes your dose of horrible gore for today. 🙂
PS. Oh, hey, Jeaniene, I see your cute ducklings bathing in your cat water dish and raise you adorable foxes. Your move.
This sounds like a nice side-story for Cornelius! Anyway, the fox is super-cute, and looks like that house is the party house in the neighborhood!.
Oh noes! The black and white squirrel returns!
When my daughter was younger she worked as the Engineer on site. You had to drive to another town to get a flight out of the area. Cows I found out are idiots. The road leading to the airport had cows on the side of the road and when you where about to reach them decided it was a great idea to walk out onto the road in front of your car. You had to be really careful.
OMG!!!!! I <3 foxes. I actually have a fox tattoo on my right shoulder. That's too cute. Yes, feeding outdoor kitties poses a problem. When we lived in WV, we ended up feeding coons and opossums in addition to our outdoor kitty. 🙁 I wish you luck in figuring out the feeding. 🙂
Oh, man, I needed this dose of cuteness this morning!! Thank you!
Here are my vicious beasts in back yard.
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Yeah, cat food outside at night means everything with a nose and a taste for meat of any kind will be around to eat. Cats will learn to eat in daylight, so feed only while it’s daylight outside, pick it up when day ends. It would be easier to do if the food were contained somehow, such as spread on a cookie sheet, rather than on the steps the way it is. We, too, live within less than ten minutes of a freeway, and yet we have all kinds of animals that come around and eat under our bird feeders every night. We’ve had families of black and white squirrels, raccoons, and possums raised from what spills from the birds eating. Deer come and trample everything and irritate me. The actual squirrels are daylight animals. I think the key to getting all that wildlife is that it does get “country dark” without street lights. That’s why I put motion detectors on my outside lights. I wanted to watch the deer walk across the concrete walk along the front of the house at night. Drove the dog nuts for a while until he caught on.
I really have a difficult time with the driver thinking the foxes were cats, though. Has he ever seen a cat? I’m not saying foxes are welcome here, but we’ve had a few. Now and again, I hear the coyotes yipping out there. I resent them because they do take domestic animals as food. But when I see a fox, I just stop and look. I carry a strong flashlight and that tends to make skunks and raccoons and even rabbits scurry off, but possums just stand there and look at me. I keep the light on the possum and walk past it to my destination. I have watched skunks trundle along in the horse field, never bothering the horses or bothered by them. (They will, however, spray if they happen to raise their tails as they go under the electric fence. For some reason, they take that personally.) I think the animals tend to leave each other alone, for the most part. I do laugh when the chipmunks gather up seeds under the bird feeders and then run straight out of there, through all the birds eating off the ground, scattering them like bowling pins.
I am also amused that your daughter ran out to save the delivery driver from bobcats. The driver refused to get out of the car, but she dashed out to get that food! I can only imagine his horror at seeing her ignore those dangerous bobcats to take delivery of her food. Too funny. Thanks for the laughs during these days. We all needed that.
Hahaha, yikes, those scary bobcats and funny looking squirrels!
We went camping at Morro Bay with the puppies. We had their food in a XMAS popcorn can with the lid on tight. The raccoons couldn’t open it but rolled the can away and we found in the the ravine the next day.
For some reason I have been particularly fond of stink squirrels. There is a fart of them that travel through our property each night, the smell wafts in the bedroom windows. So far the doggie has been smart enough or lazy enough to not get sprayed.
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Wondered where the wildlife was escaping to from the wildfires. ????
Love the foxes! And thank you so much for the Report
I wonder if they make an outdoor microchip feeder for small animals like they do for livestock?
Your life is infinitely varied
Thank you for sharing
but to run outside through the “bobcats” for delivery …
and yet again
The foxes wouldn’t scare me nor the striped kitty. The pig scares me.
Dealing with the squirrels and raccoons that steal the food for the stray cat we feed… sympathies.
Funny… BOBCATS! Not A Chance, lol.
To keep the raccoons from unscrewing the food barrel, screw a small self-tapping/wood screw through and perpendicular to the receiving threads and into the threads of the bottle. Now you can get it off to refill (with the help of a screwdriver) but the raccoons cannot, unless they’ve learned to use screwdrivers now. (I wouldn’t put it past them)
ps: You can add a second screw halfway around the rim to be more secure, but look out for man eating bobcats and evil black and white cats!
LOL! Way too many critters wandering in and out of your territory at their will. 🙂
Sounds to me like you guys need a good fence or you need to trim the trees close your fence (especially if your smaller dog keeps getting sprayed everytime he rushes out to challenge the ‘black and white’ squirrel). And are you feeding feral cats? Trying to wrap my mind around why your cats only eat outdoors.
Sending virtual hugs to you guys and all the critters. Good luck with the deadlines!
Grey foxes can climb very nearly as well as cats! Putting the food up high probably won’t be enough.
Now you have a cat/fox feeder.
It might help deter the black and white squirrel tho!
I was shopping one day and met a woman who fed stray cats in her neighborhood. She was trying to find people to adopt them instead of taking them to the shelter. What she ended up doing is buying rain gutters, put the food in that using it like a trough. She put the gutters up on cinder blocks so it was off the ground. Pretty smart, huh!
Lol. It would have been far more understandable if he at least thought they were coyotes!
Now that skunk…That’s the one I’d be worried about.
I didn’t know I could love you guys any more than I do, but this post made my day❤️ Cute and hilarious. I want to live there????❤️
I would just like you to know that I don’t really care what storyline you choose to develop, just please keep writing. I haven’t found a book of yours that wasn’t good enough to reread. Some I’ve reread more than once.
Thank you for hours of reading pleasure. I’m glad I found you.
I sincerely needed the laughs! Thanks so much for sharing the story and especially the pictures!
I sincerely needed the laughs! Thanks so much for sharing the story and especially the pictures! Edit: My internet may not be working super well and I can’t tell if the original comment got posted/sent. Sorry if this is a double!
These little foxes are truly adorable! I wonder what the delivery guy would have done if he’d been surrounded by the pack of very large, extremely vicious feral dogs that chased after me, my sister, and our two friends when we were 13 & 14 years old. There were no climbable trees, & we had no weapons. For brevity’s sake, I’ll just say we were saved by the copious amounts of food we left behind as we ran the quarter of a mile distance back to our friends’ house, in a blind panic. These dogs were definitely hunting us for food. To make matters worse, our parents didn’t believe us until farmers in the area told them about encounters they’d had with this same pack! Sadly, this pack wouldn’t have existed if people hadn’t dumped their dogs out there in the boondocks b/c they didn’t want them anymore.