These rascals have invaded Opie's turf and have caused mayhem in all of the pet food areas. I try to get all of the food in by midnight as they prefer to attack between 3 and 5 AM, but one night they came early and may have eaten all of the food before Opie even had a bite. Besides the food being gone, you know they have been there because all of the water dishes are full of dirt. I sure hope they are drinking something before they put their paws in.
A flashlight will scare them up into the trees where they just gaze back at you patiently, waiting for you to give up and go back to bed. Not only are they rude and selfish, not leaving even a morsal for the next guy, but I have heard that they can be dangerous to any animal that gets between them and the food. They aren't even nice to each other as we have video of the 3 of them fighting over the dish on Opie's chair with one hogging the whole chair and pushing the other two off so that they could only crouch beside the chair and cautiously extend a paw up and try to grab a bit out of the bowl every once in a while.
The night after Halloween, I put the porch pet food dish inside the dining room on a chair, but left the glass door open just enough so that the cats could go in and out and left the light on to discourage wild things. A racket in the dining room woke me up at 3 AM. All of the food on the chair was gone and a full plastic grocery bag of Halloween candy was half-way out of the glass door. There were candy bar wrappers all the way from the back yard to the side fence. They had eaten almost the whole new bag of the Reese's crispy bars (the best stuff! I had had only one out of that bag!) and were dragging the grocery sack that held what was the rest of that bag that they hadn't eaten yet and two 26 oz. bags of unopened tootsie roll assortments. They had hit the mother lode. I bet it almost killed them to have to drop that and run.
