They Love dog food!

**Wildsky** · 05-12-2009, 11:46 PM

LOL living on the edge there MaryKay

**Kate51** · 05-12-2009, 11:52 PM

We have a little ****zu, doesn't eat a lot, one good bowlful usually lasts her a week. (She likes Our food better.)
A couple summers ago I noticed she was out of food awfully fast, so filled it again, next day it was gone. Well.....
A couple nights later, we were watching TV, all was quiet, and out of our bedroom, around the TV, behind the couch, and out to the dog's dish, like he'd done it before...a young possum! Don't know how long he'd been in the house, but he sure nuf had a route all coursed out to get to the dish!
I took him across the fields (with a good supply of food, of course) THREE times, until he guessed it was too much work to come back.
He'd been coming in through the garage door when it was open, and figured out the best place to hide during the day.

**Mary Kay** · 05-13-2009, 01:36 AM

While it's true they are not the prettiest of creatures, they are smart..except for the dufus one I "rescued" he was at the back door last night. The dog was in but the cats were on the patio table looking very confused at the biggest rat in the world. Well at least thier world.
We feed the dog and cats indoors by the way.

**The Widow** · 05-13-2009, 04:09 AM

Good one MayKay.
Not a lot of wildlife here, except occasionally one of those pretty black kittens passing thru the yard, you know, the ones with the bushy tail and the white stripe running down their back.

**Sexi** · 05-13-2009, 04:29 AM

Oh Mary how possum's can do this LOL.... had almost the same thing happen a few years ago. Had a rat terrier outside, about 3 AM he is going nutzo out there. I throw on a t shirt, grab the flashlight & head out the door as he never barked except for a good reason. He is looking toward our BBQ grill, but I see nothing. I am bending over & stuck my head under the burner shelf to have a closer look. As I was coming back out I felt something smack me in the back of the head. Scared me so bad I jerked up real fast & knocked myself out on the burner shelf. Woke up probably 30-45 seconds later with this dam_ed possum setting on the burner shelf staring at me.

After I got my wits about me, I am thinking now what do I do??????? Live in town, can't fire a gun & I would have had to shoot at the house where he was setting. I finally decided it was time to grab the hubby's bow & arrow......... Possum do make good fertlizer buried in freshly tilled garden.

**Sexi** · 05-13-2009, 04:34 AM

Oh then the skunk! I love cats & we have/had several neighborhood scavengers. I leave a bowl of dry cat food out if I know a hungry one is out there. I leave for work early enough it is still very dark out. Opened up the door one morning, & walked right out on the front porch right into a skunk eating the cat food.

I made it without getting sprayed, but I scared it enough he turned around & was ready......... I made it off the porch & to the car in record time LOL.

**Mary Kay** · 05-13-2009, 05:07 AM

LOL! I have never seen a real live skunk..other then the first 2 I married.
I wasn't thinking fast, I was paniced that the dog would get out and attact the possum while it was on my arm! German shepards are very smart, she can already open the sliding glass door from the outside, it won't be long til she figures out how to do it from the inside.

**Idahojo** · 05-13-2009, 05:07 AM

OMG Sexi! I don't know which story was funnier, yours or Mary Kay's!!. You do have some cahones though Sexi. Shooting at it with a bow and arrow. LOL You go girl!! Maybe we should rename you Grizzly Sexi!!! Or Sexi Crockett!