A raccoon, probably one of Tailey’s kits, comes to the den, but leaves after finding it inaccessible.

Tailey comes and digs out the entrance to the den.

As Tailey finishes, a raccoon crosses the fence from the field. It pauses, then runs off as Tailey chases it.

Three minutes later, a raccoon enters the den. After ten seconds, it tries to flee but Tailey seems to have a grip on its tail. After breaking free, the raccoon exits around the side of the larger shed.

17 minutes later, a raccoon is pushed out the entrance by Tailey, who backs out of the den tail-first. With both raccoons out of the den, Tailey puts her back to the other raccoon and walks backwards, driving the raccoon away. The evicted raccoon climbs the tires and exits to the field.

After returning to the den entrance, Tailey watches for six minutes, sometimes standing on her hind legs to look in the distance, before entering the den and staying put until nighttime.

A raccoon enters, probably from the field.

The raccoon goes to the den, but finds the entrance buried.

As the raccoon goes to the tire tunnel, it doesn’t use its front left foot. Its tail is also bent, possibly indicating it has been in fights with other raccoons.

The raccoon probably returned over the fence to the field.

The cat then approaches the garage, but is sent away by Pippen (our resident stray cat.)

The cat checks out the tires and large shed.

The cat pokes its head under the smaller shed, but mat least one raccoon is in the den.

The cat explores the tire tunnel.

One last check of the raccoon den . . .

Finally giving up, the cat passes into the field. This is the first cat I’ve seen actually climb the fence, rather than jumping.

After coming out from the larger shed, Rocky checks the den under the other shed.

Rocky then crosses back into the field, probably staying in some other den for the day.

While Tailey eats the corn dog on top of the tires, Rocket comes to investigate.

Rocky hunts for the source of the corn dog, hoping to find one.

After Tailey leaves, Rocky and a third raccoon fight over the stick.

After grabbing the first slice, she takes it into the field. This requires a bit of parkour as she tries to go under the fence and over a log someone put on the other side to block the opening.

For the next slice of bread, she stays on this side of the fence.

13 minutes later, two baby raccoons are fully out of the den.  Tailey stands up, possibly to look for dangers.  After a third kit appears, Tailey finally grabs one and drags it back into the den.

Seconds later, three kits are outside the den and Tailey drags another back in.

35 minutes later, Tailey seems to have her house under control and slips out to find more food.

The baby raccoon pokes its head outside of the den.

For a moment, two kits appear side by side in the den entrance.