The small furry creature visiting our porch
is not very sizeable for a raccoon so we take him
to be a juvenile, delinquent only in the sense that
he foregoes caution in appearing during daylight
hours when his species is mostly nocturnal. Like
the rabbits and the skunks that occasionally make
their entry in the dark barely illuminated by street
lights as they sniff out food left to entice their
appetites quite unlike the squirrels, birds and
chipmunks who make their appearance at any
time of daylight hours. Chipmunks inordinately
fond of biscuits, squirrels preferring buttered toast
and all grudgingly accepting breakfast cereal
scattered in abundance on the porch as second-
bests. Not our raccoon. He waits patiently and
pointedly ignores the biscuits in preference to
absent Cheerios. Tucking himself under the porch
bench he waits, then emerges once the preferred
Cheerios are mounded satisfactorily to his taste.
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