Raccoons Like Croutons...

I just found this out last night. At about 3am my husband heard a really strange noise in the kitchen and went to investigate. Much to his horror he found a raccoon peeking his head into our kitchen through the screen that he had just chewed through.

HELLO! Now let me just say that we live in a suburban neighborhood that just happens to be quite woodsy and we have a lot of critters. Deer, Geese, skunks, groundhogs and yes raccoons. However in the past the raccoons stayed in their own houses and avoided mine. Not anymore!

Apparently raccoons like croutons. You see I had a box of Pepperage Farms Onion & Garlic Croutons sitting on the window sill. This window just happens to look out over our deck and there is a table under the window. I guess Ranger Rick decided to climb onto the table for a looksie inside, spotted the croutons and decided that he had to have them thus chewing a big hole in my screen.

So the moral of the story is, hide your croutons and make sure that you have a husband with good ears so that if you happen to accidentally leave croutons on the window sill he can catch the raccoon BEFORE he gets into your house to wreck havoc on your kitchen. Tonight I'm sleeping with one eye open!