The Cheetos Bandit

On our last visit to Kentucky, Jolene and I were visited by a family of raccoons at our cabin in Otter Creek. We were hanging out, talking and drinking on the back deck, when we heard a rustling in the brush. Out popped one head, then two, and another.

We didn't have much in the way of food at that point, so we threw a few Cheetos snacks down and they gobbled them up in short order. They hopped up on the deck, then the picnic table, and had a ball. Cheetos must be the raccoon equivalent of crack because they couldn't get enough.

This one fellow would lunge for his snack, and then chatter away at us if another wasn't put down in its place. At one point he jumped down onto the deck and went after Jolene's toes! She quick-handedly grabbed a broom and brushed the little junk food bandit aside, all the while doing a hop step that would make that "River Dance" guy proud.

We dubbed her "Jolene The Broom-Wielding Raccoon Slayer."

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