While exercising on my stationary bike, I remembered I hadn’t brought in the cat food, so I brought up the live video from Hal and discovered Target munching away.  I used the microphone feature to talk with him.  Although curious, he continued eating.

After ten minutes, I gave up and opened the garage door.  Target promptly ran off and I brought in the plastic dish he had been eating out of.

Half an hour later, Target was back.

Wasting no time, he tried to steal the empty metal dish, which was empty.

Widey came by 20 minutes later, but ran off as soon as I started talking over the microphone.

Pippen, sleeping in the cat bed, looks up as the raccoon approaches.  Target carefully takes the entire cat dish down the stairs and sets it down beside the car.

There must have been some food in the dish (oops) because Target doesn’t leave the garage for another six minutes.

From the way the scene plays out, it appears Target’s main motivation for moving the dish is to get it away from the 15-pound black cat.

On the way up the stairs, Target stopped to eat some food out of a plastic dish.

For some reason, the camera pans back quickly to the left.  Target moves back into the image carefully carrying the entire food dish, including its heavy metal frame.

Of course, it still won’t fit through the cat door.

Unfortunately, the camera by the cat door doesn’t record any video to its SD card.  The next recording comes 12 minutes later, as Target still tries to maneuver the empty dish through the door.

When I returned home a couple hours later, one dish was lying outside on the driveway.

After washing its hands, one raccoon tries to steal the dish, then wonders what happened to all the water.

Raccoons don’t like to share food. This raccoon has perfected the art of stealing the cat dish, without spilling the food.