We're at Bald Head for a week of real vacation! After working so hard to remodel this house (The Blue Dragonfly), we finally get to just enjoy it for one week! When we left the house to renters two weeks ago, everything was perfect!! Even the old garbage can holders were freshly painted and, we thought, racoon proof. Last night we found out we were wrong! Here's the evidence. [Click on photos for a closer look.]
Steve went downstairs after dark to put away the grill and found 3 racoons hanging on our garbage can holder! As you can see, the slats have a little space between them, but a layer of wire screen underneath the slats is supposed to keep racoons out. WRONG!! The little guys and girls were pushing away the screen, tearing through it, or whatever else they could manage to do and then sticking their little paws into the box to pull trash through!
Steve went downstairs after dark to put away the grill and found 3 racoons hanging on our garbage can holder! As you can see, the slats have a little space between them, but a layer of wire screen underneath the slats is supposed to keep racoons out. WRONG!! The little guys and girls were pushing away the screen, tearing through it, or whatever else they could manage to do and then sticking their little paws into the box to pull trash through!
In the next photo you can see that one (or three...could have been a group effort) managed to pull the slats away from the frame (wouldn't want to meet up with those racoons on a dark night), push away the wire and pull out a container of hummus!! They obviously were either full or unimpressed at this point because the hummus was left half-eaten!
In the next photo you can see where they could only push the screen away enough to get their paws through. They reached in as far as they could and pulled out the garbage in bits. What you can't see here (because the wrappers were laying on the ground) is that they were able to pull out honey buns, crackers and bread!! No wonder the hummus was not interesting!!
