Minds of their Own - Animals are smarter than you think.

[truedelphi]

33. One night, back when my spoue was in school most nights,

There was a knock at our front door. The weird thing was the knock came from about where on a door a small child would be knocking.

It was night time? How could any of the neighbor's kids be out?

I opened the door, and standing on his or her hind legs, was a beautiful adolescent raccoon. They looked at me with a deep intention. i knew they wanted food.

We didn't normally feed the racoons - but I couldn't let this guy or gal go away hungry. I took the twenty pound bag of kibble out to the middle of the yard and poured out about three pounds of the food.

In the morning, every crumb of kibble was gone. I had never seen that particular raccoon before, and i never saw it again.

An acquaintance of mine, who was a doctor had a similar thing happen. A big ol' buck came and knocked on her door, so she would heal his ear that had been ripped open?

We both lived in fairly populated areas. How did both animals know that our doors were good ones to be knocking on.