Our little spot is uniquely placed, we're surrounded by a large tract of wild, but that tract is surrounded on all sides by development, so the creekbeds are the main route the critters take in and out of the wild spots. It's like being in the country, but less than a mile away in just about all directions is city, complete with interstate hwy, etc.
We have deer that come through daily, and we see bobcats and coyotes in the daytime pretty regularly. Coyotes are a nuisance in the suburban neighborhoods here, and one of the main reasons we can't have a cat...had a neighbor lose three within a period of several months, and we just don't want to go through losing another one ourselves. But as long as we have coyotes, we can't really have an indoor-outdoor cat. We had a bobcat trot down our driveway in the middle of the afternoon, quite unconcerned about us or our dog sitting about twenty feet away on the deck. Quite an unexpected sight at the time, but we've seen him twice since.
The tract surrounding us is due to be "developed" on one side, close to the interstate, so that will probably drive more of the critters into our section. Our little rush of rattlers a few years ago was due to a pre-fab house development on the hill across the street.
We have deer that come through daily, and we see bobcats and coyotes in the daytime pretty regularly. Coyotes are a nuisance in the suburban neighborhoods here, and one of the main reasons we can't have a cat...had a neighbor lose three within a period of several months, and we just don't want to go through losing another one ourselves. But as long as we have coyotes, we can't really have an indoor-outdoor cat. We had a bobcat trot down our driveway in the middle of the afternoon, quite unconcerned about us or our dog sitting about twenty feet away on the deck. Quite an unexpected sight at the time, but we've seen him twice since.
The tract surrounding us is due to be "developed" on one side, close to the interstate, so that will probably drive more of the critters into our section. Our little rush of rattlers a few years ago was due to a pre-fab house development on the hill across the street.