I was in the living room reading my book when Saffie started barking and growling. Saffie rarely barks and normally it’s just if someone is in the front garden or the garden next door.

When she didn’t stop after half a minute I went out to see what she was growling at. She was pacing round the tree and looking up into it.

I assumed there’d been a squirrel scavenging on the ground and she’d seen it and chased it and it’d ran up the tree. Imagine my surprise when I looked up and this was staring down at me:

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A raccoon! I’ve never seen one in the wild before so that was kinda cool. It looks quite young and terrified of Saffie and Dolce.

I sent them back inside and shut the door then took a quick pic to prove I saw it, and then went inside myself. It probably won’t come down for a while but I know it won’t move an inch until it thinks the dogs are gone.

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