Raccoon Story
Your uncles, Aidan and Dylan, are about to go off to college. Last night, we all had dinner together at their favorite Chinese restaurant, which is called Alice’s.
Over dinner, they told me about something that happened recently at their Mom’s house.
They have two cats, Pumpkin and Ghoasty. Pumpkin is fat and stays inside all the time but Ghoasty likes to roam around outside. When Uncle Aidan was a young boy, about six years old, we were all at a school picnic in Golden Gate Park, when he heard a kitten crying in the bushes.
He crawled under the bushes and brought back little Ghoasty, who had been abandoned in the park. Since then she has always been part of our family.
In their Mom’s house there is a “cat door,” which allows Ghoasty to come and go as she pleases.
Recently a raccoon family showed up in the backyard – a father, mother and two little raccoons. The baby raccoons were very cute, Aidan said.
One of them squeezed inside the cat door and was trying to eat the cats’ food. Uncle Aidan saw them and started to scare them away. The raccoons didn’t act very scared at all but Uncle Aidan kept urging them to go away.
Finally the raccoon that was inside went back out and he closed the cat door.
Pumpkin and Ghoasty were nowhere to be seen! They don’t want to mess around with raccoons.
End of story.
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