The Forever Home came already equipped with a half dozen solar powered, motion activated security lights around the roofline. Last night I just happened to be wandering around a little after 4:00 (I’m an old dude with a history of kidney stones so I stay very well hydrated – you do the math!) when one of the lights outside in the back turned on.
I didn’t see anything out there and I wasn’t going to go get dressed to go out and investigate. Given the temps in the low 50’s, I wasn’t wandering out naked, either. So I was going to ignore it until a second light came on. I still didn’t see anything out there, so I made a note of the time to remind me to check the security cameras.
This is just after that first security light turned on – along the wall on the left you can see a pair of ***eyes*** strolling this way. Not that spooky, just what I expected. Possum? Raccoon? Something more domestic?
Three minutes later, just before the second security light activated on the right, the cat started investigating something around the treadmill that’s stored out on the porch. Big surprise!
It only took a couple minutes to see that the critter in question (I’m assuming it’s just the one, hard to tell with the low light, infrared images) is out there a couple of times a week. There’s nothing for it to eat other than bird seed, but if it should catch a rodent of some sort, so much the better.
Oh, and while I had seen a large owl perched out on the pergola at sunset, I was surprised that I hadn’t heard one. The ones in West Hills were quite noisy. Well, there were at least a couple hooting it up on Friday night, so that might be another hazard for the stray cat. One of those full sized Great Horned Owls will make a stray cat a meal in a heartbeat!
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