[gundog]

That’s a big one. Looks like it might be favoring a hind leg. Around here, that one would have turned perpendicular you the road and vanished. Unless someone was feeding it. I wonder if it was patrolling the road for roadkills.

There was a smallish one spotted on a clear-cut(a new one) behind my mom’s place. I don’t think the people at the end of the road have miniatures any more, but there may be sheep.

The undergrowth around here is heavy. No idea how many bears I might have bumped by being noisy. I know I’ve gotten very close before some bolted...silently. The only thing I ever knew to give my pit pause was a 500 pound bear that he could smell, but not see. I saw it...and it wanted nothing to do with us. Pretty sure it’s the monster that was hit by a truck about a mile from where I saw it.

[Salamander]

It just goes where it pleases and destroys things.

My mom can’t watch her birds out the kitchen window anymore because it not only eats the food, it destroys the feeders and bent the iron pole flat.

I wouldn’t put up with that crap but she’s not me.