Suburban deer

How wonderful.............you're so lucky to get these wandering about nearby!

Whether mountain lions come into town or not has never been something I've had to worry about, but what a photo opportunity if they did (providing you were somewhere safe, of course) :-))

The sightings seem to run in bunches. Three sightings in one town this year, four in another town the next, and so on. People living outside of towns see them much more often, but it's rare even then. They are very stealthy. The wildlife people say that they're always watching people and livestock, but you just don't know they're there.

One was just killed by police a few days ago in a city 70 mi. away. Nobody likes that to happen, but it was an urgent situation, running around busy areas, sidewalks, near schools and apt. buildings for four days. The wildlife people weren't able to tranquilize and trap it, so it was up to police to respond to calls from people at night.

what about the flowers ?

They are eaten! RIP! ;-o

Yes, the wild animals are becoming more and more trusting. Recently I met a fox who stood about 3 meters from me in the meadow. He did not bother with me at all and examined the environment for food.

Oh, foxes! They seem almost tame, sometimes. On this continent, there is still rabies in the wild, so we have to be suspicious of "friendly" animals like foxes. Skunks and bats are also common rabies carriers.

We still have the problem of rabies too. Maybe it is less bad than in the USA, because we don't have so many 'uncontrolled' and wilderness areas anymore.

Yes, I think you're right. It's impossible to control the wild animals. A few years ago, a teenage girl got rabies. I think it was from a bat that she picked up off the ground. Anyway, she actually lived through it and returned to normal. It took a long time to recover. I understand she was the first person ever to survive without having a rabies vaccine.

We could do without the skunks that nail our dogs about once a year--

We also see coyotes routinely on our street and even in our yard. So far they haven't tangled with our dogs--that's the good news. We keep our kitty inside 24/7, however!

Ugh! Skunky dogs! Not a nice experience. I've seen skunks twice when I opened my door at night. Thank goodness my cat didn't run up to them trying to make friends. I'd like to see a coyote, have only seen one in the wild but have lived near them a lot and can hear them. I've never lived in such a wildlife-dense place as this. Honestly, I was glad to move into town six years ago, because there were way too many mtn. lion sightings out where I was before.

I saw deer for the first time ever in our area, though our roads have deer warning signs ( I used to laugh at these, thinking the last time deer lived here was probably fifty years ago.) Four of them leapt across the path in front of me. I was astonished and delighted. I’ve been sneaking around in the woods since then hoping to get a photo, but no luck yet.