Battle on the Alley
For the past month, we have struggled to assert our superiority over bedeviling raccoons. It has to do with a wall fountain in our back patio.
After undertaking a spring cleaning of the fountain, complete with a fresh return filter and metal screen, at the bottom of the water basin, everything was working as planned, Soon, however, each morning, we found the system had been dismantled with parts scattered around the patio.
Thus, the war commenced. First, we got a camera shot to confirm that, indeed, raccoons were the guilty offenders. Next, we made sure the basin filter was securely screwed on.
However, for several nights we were one-upped by morning when we found disassembled fountain parts removed and thrown around.
These devils, perhaps like ourselves, are obsessive when confronting challenges. But to what end?!
To make matters worse, after their work was done they would sometimes taunt us in celebration by dancing on our our bedroom roof late in the night. In the end, happily, we can report that we prevailed.
Final score: Humans 1, Raccoons 0! Over time and by screening the whole mechanism with chickenwire, leaving cut ends out to dissuade them from getting too close and grabbing the filter system to unscrew it, we declared ourselves the winners!
Murray and Sue
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