My goodness that guy is very persistent! It was 3 AM and I heard the plastic food bowl rolling around in the car port. I had left a little food in the dish because I had run out of can food. After hearing the ringing sound of the bowl I looked to the camera monitor and there was the old Opossum.
So what did I do? I had just seen a TV series episode of "Bones" (not a show for young kids, of course)where the main characters confronted an Opossum. I learned that just clapping your hands would cause one to scurry off. Sure enough it worked like a charm.
Blackie looked at me like why did it take me so long to chase him off and I told him why didn't he tell me the critter had come to steal his food. Once I said "food" here came Hairy out from under the truck looking for the food she though I had in hand after saying the magic word. LOL
I saw Brownie off and on earlier as he would jump up on the plastic box and then get restless and head out again on patrol.
This all got me to thinking of something I heard on a Christian TV show just an hour before. Don't worry, I'm not really getting preachy here. But the man said that God made a covenant with the animals after the Flood (as in Noah's Ark fame) so that the animals would for the most part leave mankind alone. He cited an old Alfred Hitchcock horror movie about birds attacking people might saying such a story might be more reality than fiction without such a covenant. Of course if your family doesn't really believe in the Christian Bible that's ok. But I kind of wonder how your own beliefs account for this healthy respect for the most part for people by the animal kingdom.
Alfred Hitchcock
The Birds
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