"Abundant Wildlife"
A neighbor just down our little road has just put his home up for sale. On the real estate flier one of the selling points reads: "Abundant wildlife. Wild goats, mallards, blue heron, and deer abound."
How bucolic!
He forgot to mention the coyotes, skunks, opossum, rattlesnakes, and scorpions. Oh and not to mention the giant centipedes and tarantulas.
The coyotes have been busy. My farmer neighbors recently had four hens taken from near their home. In the daytime. The cleared places high on our hill are filled with new bones.
While walking the dogs a few days ago Cowboy picked up something from that hill. He dropped it and picked it up again, during his run and after laying it down and running off, he picked it up for the third time. It was not a large white dry bone, but something else that I could not quite identify while it was in his mouth.
I told him to drop it and I picked it up with two fingers.
It was the face of a cat.
(To be continued...)
What's that puppys' name?
Posted by: Lenette | April 20, 2008 at 06:12 PM
If you mean the photo, thats a coyote! Wanna call him Wyle E. ? Yes, let's.
LOL.
My older black dog is Raven, she is half lab half dalmation. The new yellow pup is Cowboy.
Posted by: candace | April 20, 2008 at 07:33 PM
I kid. But he IS a handsome devil!
Posted by: Lenette | April 20, 2008 at 08:41 PM
I should have guessed you were kidding. But who knows? Maybe you are a city gal who needs a bit of "critter edjucashun..."
Posted by: candace | April 20, 2008 at 08:56 PM
Housing ads routinely show birds and butterflies in green meadows surrounding buildings. In reality, the green areas are at best manicured lawns brimming with fertlizer-no butterflies and birds will want to go anywhere near that!
Posted by: Susan Sharma | April 21, 2008 at 09:39 PM
Susan, you are absolutely right. I think the same idea applies to golf courses...
Posted by: candace | April 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Oh... tarantulas...
I watched a video of a wood spider the other day and twitched, itched, and spazzed for nearly an hour. I saw imaginary spider shadows scuttle across the floor for the rest of the day. Oh the depths of my fear! A spider in the house results in a near epileptic fit (I am epileptic so I don't have far to go HA HA HA.) I can't imagine what would happen to me if I saw a real, live, and uncontained and unrestrained tarantula. I might, literally, have a heart attack.
Posted by: Jamie Sue | April 23, 2008 at 10:17 AM