50 degrees, beautiful sunshine, but windy. It didn't feel like 50.
We still have lots of snow still on our front lawn and in the sugar woods.
I got home around 4:00 p.m. and took the dogs out for a walk. Stepped out of the house and Percy ran to the fence on our front lawn and was barking at something on the other side of the fence. When I stepped closer I could see that Percy was nose to nose with a raccoon...yikes! I lunged for Tess because she was right next to me, fell down and was rolling around in the snow trying to get a hold of her, Symon & Percy were barking wildly at the raccoon. I could not get my footing in the snow to stand up. The raccoon was hissing and screeching, still on the other side of the fence. I finally got onto my feet, put Tess in the house. Ran to get Percy back in the house. He listened to me and came running to me. Put him in the house and then got Symon's attention and got him in the house. I was so scared!! After I got all the dogs in the house the raccoon ran across the front lawn and went under the front porch. I called Harvey and he came down from the sugar house. The raccoon was not under the porch by this time and must have run into the woods.
The raccoon didn't look sick. I think it was a young raccoon who just woke up from his winter sleep and was looking for food. I picked up all the bird feeders about 3 weeks ago, but there is a lot of seeds on the ground from all winter.
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