Oh! We got cats.
I just don't consider them desirable wildlife.
If cats weighed 50 pounds there would be a bounty on them.
I much prefer the visiting birds, crickets, june bugs and cicada.
There were always all kinds of wonders to be found in my very own
backyard. All I had to do was visit the dripping backyard water faucet at
dusk to find a wide variety of miniature wildlife right there at home.
With several variety of fruit trees we had bumble bees, honey bees,
wasps, dirt dobbers, hornets, asps.
Some times of the year it was almost a no-mans land because of the bees
and such but we all cohabited very well without any disasters other than
an occasional stink.
We treated insect stings with bacon fat and salt or baking soda, seemed
to work just fine.
I had a mud turtle in a plastic tray and we fed him tadpoles, flies and
mesquites; he lived over five years before the cat got him.
One local State Park I camp at has Chip monks (totally unheard of in
Texas). The park manager says that somebody dropped a pair off and they
seem to be having a great sex life.

Stan
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:26:21 +0100 "Robert Steven Fish"
<fish@salzburg.co.at> writes:
> ---snipped---
> nothing lives in my neighborhood but squirrels and opossums.
> ---end snippped---
>
> That's strange...
>
> you didn't mention cats anywhere in your posting.
>

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