I have many caution me..I listen to them and am careful..but I do still go out with the raccoons briefly..
The scrawny coyote I saw twice alarmed me so I quit going out when the raccoons were on the patio for awhile after I glimpsed him. I feared the coyote might have rabies..
I live in town but have a wooded ravine behind me that curves through the neighborhood and the lake is a short distance away so I get critters. The raccoons came first for leftover sunflower seed from birdfeeding..I started putting out extra..and now I put out some catfood if I see them out there..
The fox doesn’t eat anything but peanuts..She got the morning squirrel peanuts this morning.No youngsters today.
I have always had, and still do, a tremendous affintity for creatures, wild or tame. it is a hard thing to ignore them.
Huby was watching a show the other night—some guy in the North Pole or somewhere filming grizzlies, I think. He was within a few feet of them and they paid him no mind. I can see myself doing that in my younger years. He had respect but no fear for them and they knew it. They could also have eaten him in one bite, should they choose to turn. Guess that’s my age talking! LOL