What was the last animal you came across?

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And how did the encounter go?  

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Haha that's awesome thank you for sharing mrgreen

The encounter that prompted me to post this thread yesterday was that I was getting going in the morning, stretching and looking out across the view from my window (city life), when some movement amongst the stillness caught my attention.

I look down to a neighbor's one and a half story high fence and see a tabby cat just walking across this maybe six inch wide structure. Not only is the cat not bothered at all by the height and narrow room, it just plops down midway and falls asleep. What a life!

We also have a lot of various birds throughout the morning, plenty of dogs passing by being walked throughout the rest of the day, and various flying insects that sneak in thru open windows and congregate around light sources at night.

All that plus a house cat. mrgreen  

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Jealous of the wide range of wildlife mrgreen

A family member of mine also lives in a more remote area and sends pictures and videos of wildlife that trigger their ring camera at night. Surprising amount of deer, but also smaller creatures like raccoons, possums, and cats. Once sent a bear eek  

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Sad to hear someone had to put down one of the bears, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Raccoons can be little scamps but one time recently on a long trail walk my family and I were chased by a one-eyed raccoon for over two and a half miles! The trail was an unusual one with a high bank on one side that flattened out where the trail was, then continued down towards a riverbed. So, this guy comes charging down the bank behind us, right thru our group and down the hill, circles back behind us and basically cuts off our retreat back to the trailhead. We have to keep going down the trail because we don't know what this wild creature has, not gonna risk it especially with a couple small kids with us. So I'm in the back making noise at it, waving my walking stick, etc. walking slowly while the others continue on.

Well, long story short, had to call 911, a sheriff came out to the far end of the trail and walked in past us and took care of the little problem maker. Crazy day.  

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Huh. I wasn't aware of the threat foxes pose! Is that typical?  

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Learning a lot ITT

The spider story reminds me I need to get a flyswatter mrgreen