“I don’t know how people live so close to them.”
Kinda like checking the neighborhood out before buying a new home just to make sure none are living in a house on the street?
Kinda like making sure no Grizzly Bears are camped out in the neighborhood?
Kinda like making sure no coyotes are rummaging around in the neighborhood snaking on your Yorkies?
Maybe there is a Gila Monster enclave just on the other side of the ice plant patch?
Knowing the wildlife in your area has its own collection of ‘scary’ things that are ‘scary’ only because you refuse to acknowledge that ‘scary’ wildlife exists everywhere, except maybe the Galapagos or on Sesame Street.
In my area we worry more about the two legged ones.
Yep. In my neck of the woods this winter I have heard nearby coyote packs singing at night, a cougar was sighted just across the road and up the hill, a bear was spotted about three miles away, and bobcats regularly feast on house pets.
I live on the western edge of the Cascade Mountain foothills in Oregon.