Re: [APML] Critter stories (Was NGC7000 in Tech Pan)

[Alan Voetsch <critter12952@yahoo.com>]

--- Robert Reeves <reeves10@swbell.net> wrote:
> I'll be stepping on them all night.  I can hear an occasional deer
> rummaging
> in the brush by they never get close as I play the radio when I am
> out there.

Last Spring, for several nights in a row, I kept hearing this horrible,
chomping, grinding noise. It sounded like like some horrific monster
was tearing bodies apart, chewing them up, then spitting them out using
every rude, grunting kind of noises you could possibly imagine. Keep in
mind we do have occaisonal couger/mountain lion problems. I was too
scared to even try to get close enough to figure out what it was. This
area is really overgrown so it was not a simple case of shining a
flashlight into the area. Finally, one night I heard the creature
leaving the area and figured if I moved up the driveway I would be able
to get a glimpse of it moving through the neighbor's yard, hopefully
without being mauled. 

I was EXTREMELY relieved to see that what had been causing all the
racket was simply a deer, apparently re-chewing some of it's dinner. 

Last night, after posting one of my skunk tales, I went out on the
front porch. Walking out of the lit area into darkness, I saw two
shapes which I had out-flanked. Turns out that we have more than a
'Skunky' here, we have at least 2 Skunkies. Over the last 6 months, I
could have sworn that I had noticed size, and even some personality
differences. Turns out that was correct and I'm sure I can expect to
see some "Little Skunies" in the Spring, or maybe sooner. I don't have
any idea when they produce offspring. Anybody want to adopt a skunk?

Alan

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