Sometime last week i went out on the deck next to the house late in the evening. It wasn’t quite dark yet but that just means it wasn’t 11 yet. Oliver (the orange cat) was on the cardboard box that he likes to sleep on. But i heard something under the porch. A shuffling sound. If it was a cat i’m sure Ollie would have been under there making awful cat sounds. We’ve had deer around the house - even on the porch - but the deck is too low for a grown deer to be under there. It shuffled more.
I ran inside calling for Cena. I needed her behind me - you know, so i could protect her. I peeked under the deck quickly. And then did it again. It was a porcupine. It then shuffled toward me and off behind the house while we stood on the deck and watched it. But then it stopped and shuffled back under the deck. We left it alone and had Ollie come in.
That thing scared me though.
Helen on 
Cena on 
Tiffany on 
