RACCOONS

THIS IS MOM ON THE VERANDA ROOF

MOM LOOKING FOR FOOD

We had a family of raccoons that lived behind headquarters house and under the hot tub. Mom raccoon raised several families during time at Penobscot. They were almost always out of sight but occasionally we would see them. One afternoon we came home from the field and there was mom. She was holding the lid to the dog food container up with one paw and reaching into the food  container with the other hand and helping herself to the dog food. She was just having a nice lunch when we interrupted her. When she saw us she ran away and we watched her run out the back yard and up a tree, there wre three little baby raccoons waiting for her in the tree, and peeking out from behind the trunk of the tree. Holding on and watching us intently as we were watching them and commenting on how cute this scene was. The babies must have thought that they were behind the trunk of the tree and we could not see them, but they were plainly visible and it was a joy to see them even though they were pesty getting into the cat and dog food and playing games in the attic at night so we could not get a good nights sleep when they were having that kind of fun. Once in a while they were on the veranda roof as the pictures show but usually they were under the hot tub in the back yard and stayed out of sight.
Just another animal story from Penobscot