July Challenge Like or Dislike: Racoon Trouble
By KristiM
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Raccoon Trouble
7-14-22
Journaling: On the morning of July 14th, as I was sitting on the couch in the TV room, I looked out toward the bird feeder and noticed that the top of the cement bird bath was knocked off and tipped upside down in the dirt. I went out to see if I could put it back but realized it was very heavy and I was also quite startled when I pulled back the ornamental grass in front of it, to find a tail sticking out from underneath it!! Somehow a raccoon had managed to tip the top of the birdbath over on top of itself and was trapped. I was surprised to find it still alive and knew I had to get it out. Knowing I couldn’t lift it, (and not sure I wanted to get that close not knowing how the raccoon would react), I went and got a shovel to try to pry the top up enough so the raccoon could get out. This proved to be much harder than expected because the bird bath was so heavy. Finally, I lifted it a bit and a foot popped out and then a bit more and the raccoon popped its head out and looked at me as if to say, “What just happened?!” I yelled at it to, “Get out of here!” as I was afraid that the bird bath would slip and smash the raccoon. It finally squeezed out, crawled under the fence, and ambled off and didn’t appear to be hurt. It’s amazing that the raccoon wasn’t seriously injured when the birdbath tipped over and that the birdbath didn’t land on any plants.
• All created in Affinity Photo & Publisher for computer
Credits:
• Kit: Just a Bad Day by Blue Heart Scraps
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