A city guy on his podcast went on and on about how much he loves animals. Too bad I couldn’t invite him over, because he could experience animals here in Three Rivers, in my yard and in my house.
- A giant black beetle in the kitchen sink (they’ve been in almost every room in the house lately).
- A lizard ran under the fridge.
- A little frog was in the shower and then hopped under the clothes hamper.
- A raccoon got into the garage, made his way into the workshop, and pulled the bag of catfood off the shelf, dragging it into the RV garage (yes, we have a three-in-one building where the cats are supposed to be safe at night.)
- Coyotes were howling at a siren passing by on the highway while I was walking in the morning.
- There are at least 3 new fawns in our yard, learning how to destroy our plants.
- Squirrels are now getting into the fenced off tomatoes.
- Turkeys are EVERYWHERE, in great numbers.
- A bunny was at the bottom of the driveway. Good thing they reproduce so abundantly, because everything wants to kill them.
- Another bunny succumbed to the vicious nature of our 3 cats; I had the privilege of scraping up and burying the remains after they had their way with it.
At least we don’t have any snakes right now. HOWEVER, some guests at a vacation rental accidentally transported a RATTLESNAKE home to Iowa in their luggage!!
The cats can’t keep up with the gophers and squirrels, but they are trying.
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Ahhhh, the “joys” of rural living!
I have one up on you–black widow spiders that love the corner of my garage!
Plus coyotes, raccoons, bunnies, lizards, ground and tree squirrels, gophers on our golf course (boo-hiss!), mosquitoes and no-see-ums. Oh, and the most dangerous of all, the 2-legged oblivions!
Sharon, we do have black widows, just not in the house. We also have scorpions, but none recently enough to make the blog post. Mosquitos abound.