Wildlife Explosion
Our neighbor came over this afternoon to let us know there’s an opossum in the neighborhood, and there’s a good chance he’s taking refuge under our shed. Time to pull out the mothballs and spread them near all the entrances under the house as well as tossing some under the shed.
Opossums, bats, pigeons, owls, hawks, and more here in Central Texas. We have a pair of raccoons and an opossum under our neighbor’s shed lurking in San Antonio. Who says you have to live in the country for wildlife?
We took in the Warrenton Antique show today. It’s a huge show, and we found everything we wanted in one short aisle. Got 10k+ steps today, though, and that was the draw for bothering to check it out. Beautiful weather here — sunny in the mid-60s. What’s not to love?
I heard on the news about a family with skunks living under their house and are apparently marking their territory. They had to jump through hoops to get conservation people to come out with live traps.
That’s always an interesting experience. When we bought the house, we had a stray dog living under the house. Then she had puppies. Our animal control guy finally got the mama dog darted (she was unapproachable) and was able to collect the pups from under the house.
There are three or four neighborhood cats who routinely traverse the underhouse areas (one of our goals is to close off the entrances, but it’s too far down on the list of things we must do).
In fact, our neighbor thought he heard a cat fighting, but there was only one cat. Since they don’t fight with themselves (typically), he thought it might be the opossum. So the opossum is upsetting the local mammalian population pecking order.
I’m thankful the skunks seem to be keeping their distance.
We have oppossum all over here, they’ve adapted themselves quite well to dining on doggie and kitty kibble. :::shudder:::
One reason why I try to remember to pull the dog bowls in every night — especially if there’s any food left in them.