'Ol Pookers is at a football game and I'm spending most of the evening scrubbing floors.

I think I need to get liberated...

'Ol Pookers is at a football game and I'm spending most of the evening scrubbing floors.

I think I need to get liberated...

I think he may come home happy.

Hazelnut Tanuki is now visiting nightly with her one baby, whom we have named Fuzzball. It is unusual for a raccoon as young as Hazelnut to only have one surviving kit in the fall, so something must have happened to the other babies that she undoubtedly conceived. Raccoons are particularly susceptible to distemper (both canine and feline), so sadly the smart money is on disease. On the other hand, I saw a great horned owl on a lamp post behind our backyard last night. Great horned owls prefer rodents, but will eat skunks, cats, baby raccoons etc. This was a particularly large and beautiful owl, and I was really glad I had managed to get both of our indoor/outdoor cats in for the night.

Marilyn has been visiting regularly with two darling little blond babies. We really haven't settled on names for these two kits yet, and so if you would like to name a raccoon baby please offer suggestions.

The best raccoon names tend to be unisex, as we never know if the kits are male or female until I teach them to stand up to request food. Since these are blond babies, we would appreciate name suggestions that imply blondness or redness in their coats. For example, their great grandmother was Snowball, their grandmother was Rusty, their mother is Marilyn, and their uncle is Fabio (Fabio is the raccoon formerly known as Farrah, until he stood up and we realized how inappropriate the name Farrah was.)

Fabio visits every once in a while. He has become a surprisingly large and devastatingly handsome male raccoon. Our blond raccoons don't tend to run large, so I was surprised at how big Fabio had become.

I don't know if litter size is genetically linked to blond/cinnamon colored coats, but our blonds tend to have small litters of 1-2 kits. whether the mama is young or old. Our more typically colored raccoons tend to have surviving litters of 3-5 kits in the fall, unless the mama is getting on in years. Old Threesie, for example, had one surviving baby who we called Fat Baby. The next year Old Threesie didn't return, and we assume she passed over the Raccoon Rainbow Bridge. Fat Baby never had to compete for food with siblings, hence his chubby stature.

Anyway, looking forward to name suggestions for our two blond babies.

Thanks!!!

Angela, I think Mooch is a cute name. I've named one of the feral cats Mooch.

As for the color thing, how about Buttons (as in Red Buttons)? But you're looking for blonde names. Save Buttons for another time.

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Hi Angela
Hi Vic
Hi everyone

Hi back 'atcha Byron!

Vic, "Graham" and "Crackers" are pretty cute names for blond raccoons, as they are very much the same color as those beloved preschool snacks. I'll see what Eric thinks tonight, but I think we may have a winner.

Fuzzball is turning out to be quite the friendly and easily trained raccoon kit. He reminds me of Artemis, so Eric had better watch his toes!!!

Now there is a name. Wookie and of course Chewbacca.

Seen at Walmart:

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are all raccoons addicted to Cheerios?
asking for a friend..

Hmmmm.... I've never tried Cheerios with my little woodland friends

This is the logo for the Rocket City Trash Pandas. (I have no control of the size of the image.)

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Cross posting is not the same as cross dressing. But I have posted a good racoon photo in Beets. Lets see if some of the raccoon lovers can say something about the team in the other threat.

Why President Coolidge once pardoned a raccoon

Bad idea, imho, but a good outcome.

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we have a large ground hog
residing in the neighborhood.
and i think he has good eyesight.

Pest controllers in New York accidentally create new breed of 'super rat'

No, they don't wear capes. ;-)

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What they didn't name the "Super Rat" Splinter? ;)

Well, there is more than one. ;-)

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I'm taking Admiral's image and posting it on Facebook.
Just thought I'd let the Admiral know.

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Happy New Year readers of the Critter Cafe!!!

The Heist
Food Truck

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