JCam wrote:
How is the local cat, racoon, groundhog, squirrel, & small dog, etc. population holding up? One year in Andover, MA we had a pair of coyotes that sometimes used our back yard as a route to/from the conservation land. I presume they were living to the neighborhood generally in the early morning and looking for breakfast. It was quite a sight in a not especially rural town. We saw him/her several times in the early spring, but only in that one year, and we had no problems that year with small predators such as raccoons, squirrels and woodchucks raiding the garden. Our house lot backed up to the conservation area so seeing wild critters deer 7 fox wasn't unusual; a mother bear and cubs, raiding the bird feeders (once) was unusual.
Our daughter, about eight or nine years old then, saw it first on that initial sighting; her first reaction was "What is that!?"
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lol on your daughter's reaction. We have all that too in the animal department except the bears. Iowa isn't too familiar with bears...they say we get some up north...but it's rare.