Terrorized and Speechless - UPDATED

As I mentioned in my prior post I set up a new feeding station for the boys and Katie. Little did I know the consequences this would bring.

When dad was alive he entertained a lot and had a second bathroom built so guests would not have to come into the house to use the facilities. There is no access to it from the house and was built next to my bedroom. Typically,  There are drapes on both the bathroom and my bedroom that are always closed...why would I want to look into the bathroom?  It is no longer a working bathroom...we use it to store stuff and Paquito has his bed on top of the chest of drawers.

Since I moved the feeding station I open the drapes so I could see when the cats come to eat and what time Paquito goes to bed. Last night I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye and it was this medium-size animal that I would later identify as a possum. He set out to eat the boys' food even after I yelled at him. The good thing is that Paquito is a deep sleeper.

I apologize for the poor picture quality but I lightened it up as much as I could.

About an hour later another thing caught my eye and left me terrorized and speechless. It was this HUGE thing the size of a small pig and terribly overweight.  It scared me silly...I grabbed the cellphone and hit the record button to make a video...wish I could post it but I can not as it is profanity-laced and I do not know how to edit videos.

I went into a program that is supposed to over-ride the audio.  For some reason I can still hear myself in the background...if you are sensitive to profanity put your audio on mute...I just wanted you to look at the fat raccoon.

I had to calm myself down because I did not want Paquito to wake up and knowing him he would try to run it off and could be injured. This fat animal turned out to be a raccoon.  I pretended to throw things at it so it would leave and it would...then come right back in...this was not a good night!

If that was not enough excitement for one night...I would get a third visitor this evening...a smaller possum :-(

You can see his snout in the bottom left of the picture

I had no idea how much I was missing by keeping my drapes drawn and frankly I do not want to find out.

After reading up on these two animals I think I might have solved the mystery of what "may have" happened to Rudy and Sonny.  Google says raccoons can eat cats.  Sonny had become very territorial recently so I am not surprised if he tried to run off a raccoon.  Though it pains me to think he suffered :-(

This morning I had to clean the back bathroom with ammonia which is something I read these creatures do not like to smell.  They do not like mothballs either but I have not been able to find my stash...I use them in Terlingua to keep rattlesnakes at bay.

This evening though there was no food in the back bathroom/junk room/storage room/Paquito's bedroom both the smaller possum and the fat raccoon dropped by but did not linger.  I do not know whether to credit the smell of ammonia or the lack of food for their quick exit.

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