Our Surprise Guest

Last night I was using my laptop at the dining room table and my husband was watching TV. He called me to take a look out on the patio, and he was saying, hurry, hurry, and when I looked, there was a great big raccoon eating our cats' dinner! Fawn was peeking out at him from behind the washer, and Andy was just a couple feet away staring at him. We went out to the patio, and the raccoon ran over to where there used to be just a small tear in the screen - but was now a raccon size tear! He ran outside and turned around and poked his head inside at us. He looked really cute (at least I thought so), but my husband didn't find him quite as cute as I did. We were wondering how long that big tear was there and if we hadn't noticed it, because we keep the cats out on the patio at night, and lately in the morning they're famished and their dishes are spotlessly clean - not even a crumb. I think the raccoon has been coming in for a midnight snack for a while now. So last night we put down the hurricane shutters, and today we're looking for a screen repair person.