Chapter 36 – Bats, Cats, Possums and Skunks<\/p>\n
The fun part about living on the edge of rural, just beyond suburban, is the variety of wildlife we have here that comes by the house.\u00a0 We have bats, cats, vultures, deer, skunks, foxes and possums.\u00a0 Just to name the ones I can think of off the top of my head.<\/p>\n
The vultures congregate in the yard 2 doors over.\u00a0 There is a small stream, trees around the edges and a lot open space to land in.\u00a0 Plus there is a compost pile that they seem to be fascinated with.\u00a0 We have fox around the corner.\u00a0 I haven’t seen any directly in our backyard, but they are in the neighborhood.\u00a0And the deer migrate through the backyard, especially in the fall and winter.\u00a0 There is only one fence to block thier progress.<\/p>\n
Bats. One night on of the kitties came in squeeking.\u00a0 Well, it turns out it wasn’t the cat that was squeeking, it was the bat that it had caught.\u00a0 He has a small hole in his wings but other wise was unharmed – as far as we could tell.\u00a0Since it was alive we took it away from the kids and put it in a box with a small saucer of water.\u00a0 Do bats drink water? Who know.\u00a0 But Binky got water.\u00a0Yes, the bat got a name when he went into the box. David put Binky’s box on the top self in a wardrobe to keep him away from the kitties.\u00a0 The next day we went to get Binky from his box and put him outside in a tree.\u00a0 Well, he wasn’t in his box.\u00a0He had climbed out of the box and was hanging on one of the coats in the wardrobe.\u00a0 So David put Binky out in a tree.\u00a0 We kept an eye on him until he flew away.<\/p>\n
We know all about Edna the possum.\u00a0 Who spent a night in the bathroom.\u00a0 But Florence the Skunk came for a visit night before last.\u00a0 We put food out for the cats that live on the porch.\u00a0 Earlier in the evening I had smelt her go by… but when David put food out for the cats she jointed in.\u00a0 The weird thing is, the cats didn’t seem to mind and they all ate together.\u00a0 She was pretty docile, but then again, we didn’t give her a reason to get her tail up.\u00a0\u00a0 And that’s a little update on our wild life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chapter 36 – Bats, Cats, Possums and Skunks The fun part about living on the edge of rural, just beyond suburban, is the variety of wildlife we have here that comes by the house.\u00a0 We have bats, cats, vultures, deer, skunks, foxes and possums.\u00a0 Just to name the ones I can think of off the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193,194,198],"tags":[261,502],"class_list":{"0":"post-160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adventures-on-mill-road","7":"category-animals-other-critters","8":"category-catskittens","9":"tag-adventures","10":"tag-wildlife","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}