winwun
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We have a large bay window about 15 feet above the ground in the den at the back of the house, and I have put an old 14" skillet out to put table scraps in for the critters. It is fun for me and my wife to watch their interactions from the den with the lights out. If the scraps run short, the skillet is filled with Old Roy, which they all seem to like. Skunks are the Boss, and red foxes seem to have it over the stupid acting grey foxes. Coons -- I don't know where they fall in the brains dept. Sometimes the reds will run them off and sometimes the coons will gang up on the reds. I had to retrieve the skillet from the woods adjacent to our house a couple of times, so I took a 5 pound pig of melted down reclaimed bullets from the range and tied it to the skillet with a thin piece of cable, and they still took the skillet and the anchor home with them, but not as far. I finally took a piece of quarter inch round about 14 inches long and bent a little hook in one end and drove it in the ground over the cable between the lead and the skillet. They still try to take it, but they can't.