The new neighbors have a cat named Tiger. Tiger has declared a racoon vendetta.

[nolabear]

Last night we were treated to the full throated effect of Tiger's hatred of all things raccoon. He escaped and spent quite a while moaning and yowling while his frantic owners tried to get him back.

I don't know if they got Tiger, but our parrot Pidge now does a dead-on impression of Tiger in full on Kill That Bastard mode.

It ought to be an interesting year.

[Agschmid]

1. Sometimes in the middle of the night...

I wake up to hear Kylie (my DSH torti named after Kylie Minogue of course...) running full bore into my glass sliding doors to get whatever it is that is outside.

One night I actually managed to turn on the lights and it seems she was just after another cat, but she keeps it interesting for sure.



Apparently Kylie has got a man... whaaat.

[marzipanni]

2. I hope Tiger is okay.

My sweet old dog of yore had his ear turned into ribbons by a raccoon's claws, at least that's what the emergency veterinarian thought had done the bloody deed.

[Lasher]

3. My Chihuahua is provoking hostilities with the resident opossum

One night Tim decided to get ahold of the opossum but it worked the other way around. I thought Tim had learned his lesson that night but he goes crazy whenever he discovers a marsupial anywhere in his territory. Come to think of it, he has about the same reaction when he sees anything anywhere.

Tim still gets up pretty close but the opossum holds its ground, ready to again make its point with that formidable mouthful of teeth. I keep telling him to leave the opossum alone.

[Flaxbee]

4. oh man, I'd love to hear Pidge's imitation.

A friend of mine has an African Gray; my friend has some arthritis and grunts rather loudly going up and down the stairs; her Gray mimics her now every time she's near the stairs. It's so funny.

[nolabear]

5. Oh she has quite the repertoire.

She already meows like our cat, and in fact knows when we're talking to or about the cat and starts meowing. She talks a lot, but also does crows, the computer beep, the icemaker. water flowing into a glass (that glug sound), the sound of a passing bus (we're on a city street), my shoe squeaking, the little dog yelping, the three beep door alarm, the phone, a bunch of other stuff, and the ravens in Game of Thrones. They're her favorite TV stars and when the show comes on she immediately starts with the raven caw.

My son's cat came to stay for a few days and one day we came home to Pidge doing a cat fight. It was awesome!

[bluedigger]

6. This thread is useless without video!

[Flaxbee]

7. you should videotape her for a while and make a Youtube series of Pidge clips!

I'd love to hear that... what a riot.

Does she still do the cat fight?

[nolabear]

10. Not in a long time. She stops things if they go away.

For example, she (she's 13 and we've had her since she was under 2) used to call our old dogs, Joe and Dyna. As each dog died she immediately stopped calling them. She doesn't use the current two dogs; names but as I said designates them by sound. One thing that always makes me laugh is that she associates going outside with walking them so if we go to the stairs that go down to street level (townhouse) she whistles them up.

Videos would take considerable editing. All this is just her day, so she doesn't do a bunch at once. It's a running commentary. Our neighbors all had to find out that all that comes from one beak.

[jrandom421]

8. Interesting to say the least

We had a full blooded Maine Coon Alpha Male, who was 36 lbs in his prime. He'd like to go out at night and patrol the yard, leaving a trail of dead birds, squirrels, and possums. The neighbor cats and dogs learned early not to mess with him and the yard. One night, he went out and there was an unholy racket from all over the yard. An hour later, he drags himself in, looking pretty chewed up. We did our first aid, during which he purred the whole time. When we went to take him to the vet the next morning, we found the carcasses of 4 dead raccoons lined up neatly on the drive way.

As impressed as we were, he never got to go outside again.

[nolabear]

11. Wow. I love Maine Coons. And I don't blame you for restricting him.

Raccoons are tough! I feel for our resident ones. They had a perfectly good home in an old garage down the block and then it was torn down for a huge-assed apartment building that we all hate to see going in. Hence their impingement onto what is clearly Tiger's territory.

[libodem]

9. OMG

That's funny.