I took this one a few days ago. While walking through the kitchen, I looked out the patio door and noticed that the food dish was empty and that a very sad, confused raccoon was studying the dish and nudging it a bit. I think he thought that if he hit it just right, Friskies would appear. So I grabbed a sack of chow and my camera, opened the door and stepped out onto the step…and the raccoon did not flee. He just pulled back a few steps, waited while I filled the bowl and then posed obligingly for pics while eating. Which is not to say he was the perfect model. See that ceramic bowl at right that's filled with water? Later that evening, either he or one of his relatives knocked it off the step and broke it.