One tuff Cat!

[Lee Borgersen]

We have a Farrell cat that we somewhat adopted going on 3 1/2 years now. He comes almost every single morning for chow and milk. He was a skinny sucker when he first showed up and has long since adopted us. Every morning he shows up before daybreak and waits for some grub. When I reach down with his dish from inside the house at the patio door he hisses at me some times. We never tried to touch him since he's wild.

We've named him Moocher and he's only about a 6 lb small male. We also have our indoor cat Max and he's 20 lbs.
So, anyhow last night I had the patio lights on and I saw Moocher waiting for a snack. I gave him a bowl of milk and some food as I watched him eat. He suddenly stopped eating with his head turned backward as if something was going on. Well I first saw a shadow with the lights being on and then this giant raccoon walks up. I figured Moocher was soon to be in deep doo doo. As the coon slowly approached I called for Borgie to come see the show.

Moocher definitely was well aware of the coon starting to crowd in on him as he continued to eat and it seemed like he's not giving up his chow. The coon got within eight inches of our home boy as I waited for the coon to pounce. The coon then reached his paw slowly within one inch of the chow. With that Moochers ears went back and his head rose up and with a mighty hiss and this huge thirty lb. coon took off. I was waiting for this coon to grab the cat by the back of the neck and run off with him.

I just couldn't believe what I just saw and neither could Borgie. I figured the coon would run the cat off.

Sorry for those of you that were waiting to see the cat ripped to pieces, but that's the way the story went down. Is it unusual for a coon to respect the space of Farrell cat like that? What do you think, I'd like to know?

[Go Big Red!]

Looks like the food chain has been reorganized in your neighborhood.

[lentz]

heck if it was fall i bet you would of shot the coon and had a nice fur

[GRIZ]

Not hard at all to figure out. A good coon could take a cat most times. They'd get a few battle scars doing so. Just how bad do they want what they are after?

Like me at 165lbs. I don't think I'd have a problem winning a game of mortal combat with a cat that was 60 lbs but I would get many battle scars from it. Would it be worth going through to get what I was after?

[lentz]

i think it would be, you need to should bulk up  

[GRIZ]

Why bulk up? I'd just let you show me how it's done first.

[lentz]

Why bulk up? I'd just let you show me how it's done first.

k send me a 60 pound cat in the mail