Snack Shop, B & E attempt

First some sad chicken news. 

My close friend Mary called to say that during the night Wednesday night, 

10 of their 12 chickens were murdered.

Recently Rick & Mary had beefed up their fence around the coop to 6 foot. The perpetrator climbed the fence, tore the screen off the window, and then bit the chickens on the neck, which killed them. The 2 that survived are injured and their fate is TBD.  It was a very upsetting sight when they opened the coop to let the chickens out at dawn.The chickens all had names and personalities. How awful to lose 10 pets in the blink of an eye.

Today, they added reinforced wire on the window & a trail cam. They suspect a raccoon, the trail cam will confirm that. They also picked up some little chicks. I'm sure they are on pins &  needles tonight.  Fingers crossed for a safe night in the coop.

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I have a raccoon problem too.

This same raccoon has come every night about midnight to mess with Omaha's Stray Cat Snack Shop.  Twice I've chased him away after seeing him on the video.  The 2nd time, I slid the closure over the opening to the cat shelter, that stops him from getting in that way, but the lid on the tote flips up, & he's trying to figure that out. 

Tomorrow I'll McGuyver up a way to be sure he cannot open the lid.

Raccoons are so good at opening containers, they are little criminals. They think nothing of ransacking the property of others.  And you never see them in handcuffs.

 Sadly, Buddy the stray cat has been here a couple of times everynight too.  Hopefully the raccoon will give up soon so I can continue to take care of Buddy.