Sweet babies

Last night after we went to bed I heard a noise on the deck and my little coon dog Mazie went to the door yelping to get out.  I am always afraid she'll catch a raccoon and get more than she bargained for so I usually give the critters time to get a head start before letting her out.  So last night I turned the lock, flipped on the outside light, and opened the door.  Then walked out after Mazie.  Instead of finding one raccoon on my deck I was surprised to see 3 little raccoons on my deck.
As I ran in to grab my camera I saw one go up and over the fence.  But one stayed on top of the deck rail and the other one went to the beam and clung to it.  Then went up.
I should have known that my camera would fog up!  This humidity is killing me!  I was out there saying please defog! please defog!  I kept blowing on it trying to get it to dry because I just knew the raccoons were going to scamper away before I could get there picture.

Now I'm feeling bad.  What if Bert was right?  What if I deported their mother and these little helpless babies are left to fend for themselves?  What should I do?  Should I trap and deport them too?  Should I feed them first?  What if their mother is still around here?  Should I wait to deport them?  

This one got tired of waiting on me to finish taking it's picture and decided to just chill

How precious is this?  

I finally went back in and got Mazie to come in.  I turned off the light and layed back down.  Then I worried if they'd find the 3rd raccoon that ran off.  I wonder if they'll be able to find each other again.  

We've trapped and carried away 13 raccoons so far this summer.  With these 3 around that's 16!!!  

I think we need to name our little cove "Raccoon Cove".  It just seems natural.