Invasion of the...

Possums!I think there were two.  My son, who is now home on summer break from college, keeps the sliding glass door open so that my two cats can run in and out as they please. I guess, after living at my home  for twelve XII years, other critters ( ,  ) in the neighborhood have now figured out my dry cat food, which is always available to my cats  on the dining room floor, can be accessed from my sliding glass door. Not good. The last thing I wanted to tackle on a Friday  night was varmint eradication, but there I was. Sitting at my computer , I wanted to knock out three III entries on my blog of things that have been rolling around in my head  in one form or another and I hear this ravenous crunching... NOM NOM NOM! My one cat was laying at my feet  under the computer chair and I turn around to see the other cat in the hallway staring at me. So what was eating the cat food so loudly? I walked into the kitchen and I saw a possum  eating from the cat food dispenser!  I yelled at it and then it ran out of the house . I shut the sliding glass door and kept it closed for the rest of the evening . I fell sleep on the couch after watching tv . At about 3AM , I walked into my bedroom  in order to the bathroom  and I hear an intense scratching sound coming from the inside of the ikea cat bed . I tilted the cat bed on it's side and saw a possum's tail  hanging down. At this point I thought I had an infestation! I opened the sliding glass door in my bedroom and chucked the ikea cat bed outside onto the patio. The second possum  scampered away into the darkness .