Mother

In the rock squirrel world the problems are mostly solved with the absence of 29 of them relocated to Dripping Springs a mile plus behind the Wind Caves. In the nightly little people feeding, raccoons, gray fox, ringtail, both striped and spotted skunks, and red fox we still have an issue. The issue is the raccoon we call "mother". It should really have one more word tacked on her name but we have a lot of guests come over to watch the nightly feeding so we'll leave it with just mother. The raccoons know they have the east side of the front porch, the skunks the west side and cisterns, ringtails in the rafters, gray fox left side of the parking lot and red fox the right side of the parking lot. It's taken many years and a lot of work but they all know their area. There is a stray raccoon occasionally that sneaks around the lodge and tries to get a skunk hot dog and another that runs out into the parking lot to try and get a gray fox hot dog. Jax usually takes off after them. But Mother, is the oldest and meanest raccoon on the porch and she doesn't think the rules apply to her. Unfortunately she's big and mean and Jax knows his limites as all the other raccoons do. You don't mess with mother. One night I saw a skunk spray her right in the face from a foot away. She calmly took her hot dog, washed it in the water bowl, and kept eating. Nothing phases her. In the early days all the mother raccoons would have four or five babies. Nationally 50% of them die of starvation before their first birthday. Not here, nobody dies. So they mostly have two babies, sometimes three. No point in having so many. They all live. Mother though two nights ago showed up with four. Why? She's the meanest. Everyone leaves her alone. The babies don't know the rules yet so they wandered down the porch in front of the door right as Jax and I were walking out to feed. Jax dived into them and they all ran up poles on the front porch with Jax nipping at their tails. I'm mostly concerned that their is a rabid raccoon out there somewhere with a mental illness. What else can explain wanting to have sex with mother.