Nightly Feeding

Each night on the lodge front porch is the little people feeding. Whoever shows up gets fed. Normally the east side of the porch is owned by the raccoons. The west side by the skunks, ringtails in the rafter, and the foxes, mostly grey, a red occasionally own the parking lot. Jax is the enforcer keeping each other from stealing the other's hot dogs. However there is a small rebellion at the moment. There are three baby spotten skunks that are unaware apparently of the 17 year nightly critter rules. They've been jumping up on the raccoon side of the porch and taking the raccoon hot dogs. Spotted skunks stand on their head when they spray so they jump up on the porch, stand on their head and when all the raccoons take off they take their hot dogs. The raccoon you see in these pictures is a professional mother. She's been coming to eat each night for as long as I can remember so when the baby spotted jumped on the porch and sprayed mother raccoon took her hot dog, washed it in the water bowl and ate it. She's seen it all.