Originally Posted By: Rod
I had chickens here in Newhall untill a couple of years ago. Then the raccoons ate them.The raccoons started by stealing their eggs. When the chickens were so scared and stressed from the nightly raccoon raids the chickens stopped laying eggs. So the racoons ate them. The fresh eggs were great while they lasted.

LMHO!!!!

We deal with racoons almost nightly out here (I'll spare you the details). So far they haven't developed a taste for cats, although they do love cat food (along with the rest of the non-cat animal kingdom here).

CaT

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