I knew as soon as I wrote that that we’d be seeing kits either that night or next.
Sure enough, about two hours later…
![Hecate and this year's kits Hecate and this year's kits](https://www.josephcarrabis.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180614-Hecate-and-her-four-kits-1.png)
What’s amusing is that she sat with her four kits underneath one of our pines, the four kits lined up, waiting for us to notice her, a kind of “You, Two-Legs, here are my children. What do you think?”
As soon as we said hello and told her what beautiful children she had she brought them down for cookies and peanuts. I didn’t grab the camera fast enough so darn, no family portrait as such.
However, we did get
She’s such a good mother, Hecate is.
She hasn’t told us their names yet. Raccoons can be finicky about sharing their childrens’ names. Best to be patient.
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