07/11/2025 – Mamas for Friday

We completely forgot to post this photo last month of mama raccoon Bea as she so politely sits at the back of the garden waiting, perhaps, for some unwary human to accidently put out kibble for the stray cats in the neighborhood. She got her wish.

Bea’s a very polite raccoon. She gives us lots of space and we do the same. That said, absolutely not will we ever intentionally get close to her. She’s a wild animal and will probably tell her kits not to get close to us because we’re wild animals who just happen to live indoors and sometimes have extra food to share.

Over the winter, we inadvertently fed a skinny raccoon with a skinny, non-raccoon looking tail, that we creatively named Skinny Tail* (Bea’s on the left, Skinny on the right – see their tail differences?). Since winter, she’s put on weight in all the right places. She isn’t as brave as Bea and that’s how we like it. Skinny Tail also sports droopy nipples so we assume she has kits somewhere, like Bea does. And boy, oh boy, are they ever taking their time introducing those kits to our backyard sanctuary. We just know they’re going to love this place.

*Back in 2023, we had a different raccoon mama we named Skinny and she was really, really skinny all over, except, perhaps oddly enough, her tail was big and bushy as ever.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – Changing Things
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2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – A View from a Cat
2017 – No post
2016 – MultiCat Monday Tussling
2015 – No post
2014 – Summer Buddies
2013 – No post
2012 – Videos for your Cat. Play Time!