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The temperatures are dropping in Maine and our backyard visitors are feeling it.

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They’re also probably feeling like they’re being watched…

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Because they are.

Quite regularly.

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I saw this and thought, damn. Our raccoons are total slackers.

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Seriously, all ours do is eat and poo… and occasionally knock over the bird bath.

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We don’t have kids, so I’d better get to work on our trash pandas.

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Sunrise…

With cat.

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Squirrel, defying gravity.

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Yes, you.

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Our one little opossum, who only shows up at night.

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33 thoughts on “Critters”

  2. I actually discovered that we have trash pandas on campus. I get to the office fairly early and one morning as I walked into our building, a raccoon was rummaging through the trash can by the door. It scared the hell out of me, it had a what looked like a half eaten donut in its paws. Then before I could get a picture of it, it ran off behind the building. We also have a family of foxes (foxi?) and coyotes that reside on campus as well. But I can’t believe we have raccoons because the university is smack dab in the middle of a residential and commercial area. How did it even get there? Lol

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  3. Veterinarians who treat raccoons are few and far between.  Most of them work in the dark seamy underbelly of veterinary science.  Coincidentally, Dark Seamy Underbelly is the biggest killer of raccoons.

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  7. Amazing sunrise shot!

    We have plenty of raccoons, squirrels, possums, and rats here at the Dudley homestead.

    And crows…

    We’ve had a juvenile possum come into the house a couple of times. Doggo freaked out both times, and I had to rescue the critter.

    Doggo caught one in the backyard, and I thought for sure it was grievously injured, but it was just playing dead. Which totally fooled me.

    It’s always a dumb juvenile. The adults know better.

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    1. Our possums haven’t played dead. They were really dead. One I let lie for the day (I saw it around dawn as I left for work). It hadn’t moved when I came home. The other was under my porch and its smell made it pretty clear it wasn’t playing.

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      1. Bummer. So now you have to deal with the sadness of a dead animal as well as the corpse.

        So far the only dead critters I’ve had to deal with are rats. And I didn’t mind because I was the one killing them.

        (“Milking” them, autocorrect? WTF!?)

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  11. The wildlife is wildly entertaining there, aren’t they? His Lordship has a lot to keep his eye on. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen raccoons or possums here, but in addition to our flying squirrels we do have our share of rabbits…and groundhogs. The groundhogs usually appear like clockwork at the same time each day, make the rounds, and then off they go. I know not where, but they probably like it that way.

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