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soozelwoozel:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 20, 22:57:04
Oh, hey, Soozel. We used to have a WOMBAT who lived in the front yard of our beach house.
Aww, man rub it in why don't you? I hope you didn't engage him in any form of mortal combat.
I found some exciting looking fox poo today. Oh, and there's a daddy-long-legs on the windowsill. David Attenborough eat your heart out.
chaos:
I'd prefer foxes and pheasants to pigeons that shit on my doormat and feral cats that pee on my car.
rufio:
When I lived in Arizona, we used to get coyotes in the neighborhood from time to time. The ones that show up in the city are usually pretty pathetic, though - one of them was actually chased off by a neighbor's cat. My friend who lived in a significantly less urban area said she saw a javalina once, though.
Zazazu:
Birthplace wild animals were mostly deer and Canadian geese. I almost walked right up to a woodchuck once...those things are nasty mean. There aren't a lot of stray dogs or cats or ferals except towards the farmland, where a lot of farmers get a few unfixed cats to mouse their barns and then leave them to fend for themselves.
Here there are a lot of strays and ferals. I usually see a feral about once every two weeks. I've seen one rat in the twelve years I've been here. There are a lot of coons, too. In my old subhood, there was this one huge coon that was holed up in the side yard of this home where they left bags of leaves there for ages. He pretty much minded his own business, but it was clear that he considered that his territory, and he would guard it.
Of course, both my hometown and Chicago are teeming with bunnies and squirrels. The ones in my hometown are almost all black. The ones here are more grey and brown and are freaking huge.
rufio:
Actually, we saw a lot of rock squirrels in AZ too, but I think they would be classified more as pests than as wildlife, since most of the time they were chewing holes in the crawlspace and then trying to flay us alive when we finally caught them in a live trap. The rock squirrels are a dull greyish brown in color, and about the same shape as a ferret, but smaller. I briefly went up to Iowa for school, and was surprised to encounter chestnut-colored squirrels with big fluffy tails about the size of small cats. Between that and the bright green vegitation, it was like stepping into a coloring book.
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