Took a couple of days but eventually I figured out that there was a raccoon in his house that he sleeps in, in the winter. And it had been there for a couple of days, alive but eating all the food. It did eventually come out of the house and take off for a little while, but when it came out it looked really, really sick. Its face was all — like its, like its eyes were almost completely closed. Its face was all drawn. You really even couldn’t see its bandit mask. And I felt so bad for it, and, you know, I would see it a couple of times, or come outside and it would be on the porch at night or something, but it didn’t appear to be getting better, didn’t appear to be getting worse. Then, I didn’t see it for a couple of weeks.
And today, when I was taking recycling out, I had to make two trips, and on my return of my second trip, as I walked up onto the porch, I realized that there was a raccoon tail kind of laying on the deck from under this bench where I have a bed that the cat can lay on, that’s not insulated in his house. And I look and the raccoon’s just chilling, laying there. No problems. His face is back to normal. So, from that perspective, that’s great. You can see his little bandit mask again, and his eyes are bright and sparkly, and he’s still super skinny, and he does not run when I see him. So, I was able to get his picture, and he — then after I went back inside, he did move. I haven’t seen him. Kind of wondering if he’s living under our deck, but he’s just so quiet, I can’t really tell.
The cat is no longer afraid of him, the outside cat, ’cause he was sitting right like within three feet of him on the deck and I didn’t realize that this raccoon was there. So apparently, he’s pretty chill, or else he’s just not able to do very much yet. But I guess, at least he doesn’t appear to have rabies or mange or anything like that. I don’t know if he got hit by a car or what, but we live across from a park and so there’s lots and lots of wildlife. So, we’ll see. Hopefully he continues to get better and thrive eventually, and I guess that’s it for this week.