Wildlife Are Gettting More Intelligent!  

Wildlife adjusts to their environment. They do what is necessary to get by. Funny about the squirrel!

Wildlife is getting more intelligent these days. I posted a picture of a squirrel thinking about jumping off my shed to get onto my bird feeder. He decided not to do because it must have been too far from him. They are always thinking of ways to try and get to the bird food. One squirrel got onto my bird bath and drank some water and then was planning on trying to jump up onto the bird feeder. They definitely have a mind of their own. It is just amazing.

We have lots of wildlife around, even though we live in town. We are near the outskirts, but it is not limited just to our house. I will just tell one illustration, and I will leave it at that. We buy dog and catfood in bulk. There are lots of raccoons around here, and it is not unusual to see them. They like pet food. Because they could knock over the plastic hampers where we had food, and get to it, we bought an old fashioned metal can, with tight fitting lid. They could open it. We set a heavy tool box on top of it, and my husband came home late one night in time to see two raccoons work together to push the toolbox off, then push up the lid so they could eat. We resorted to wrapping a heavy bungee cord around the handle on the lid and hooking it in each of the side handles. They never figured that one out.

My grandparents used to get coyotes in their yard all the time a few years ago. There is a big field right next to their house and there used to be llamas and miniature horses in this field. The coyotes killed off the llamas but the horse were left unharmed. The owner of the horses had to move them to the field closer to his house so he could watch out for coyotes. I never see much wildlife where I live besides squirrels, birds and the occasional racoons and opossoms. I would love living somewhere where I see deer in my yard every evening.

I'm getting a red x for the picture :( but I can believe it since I've seen squirrels take food out of bird feeders before.

Now I wish I had gotten a picture of what was in our garage one day. We have one cat that likes to go in and out so we'll keep a bit of food in a dish for him out there. Now this is just dry cat food. The one morning out there the cat is sitting eating his food there and right beside him is a very large toad eating cat food as well. I'm talking a toad that is bigger then your hand. They could care less that they weren't the same at all. They kept eating. We've had the toads stealing the cat food often, they will sit in the bowl and just eat. Strange.

Wow! I loved reading this! I started laughing at the part about the cats eating side by side with the possum! Cats are so funny, but they do like to pick their friends! You live in a wonderful area. Glad to see all the pics you can send!

It seems squirrels are everywhere. There is one in particular the people in my apartment complex have adopted, and they call him Frank. I wondered if I'd ever be able to tell which one he was, and they said oh, you'll know Big Frank when you see him. And they were right. I DID know him when I saw him.


In my mid teens years for a time we raised a couple cows and a bull. If you knew me you'd think that was weird because we didn't really live in the country, and my family wasn't all into doing into that in the first place. But anyway, one day I was feeding the cows and their eyes got huge! So I slightly turned to see what they were staring at, and it was a coyote. He just trotted on by me, six feet away. I was pretty surprised.

Yikes! With deer in your yard, don't you worry about ticks and Lyme disease??? You make me thankful for urban living!!!

That is so cute. It is nice to see the wonders of nature. It is so true that they are getting smarter. We have 2 racoons that come up on our porch every night and scratch at the door and stir up our cat.

I think wildlife as all the environment is changing due to the fact that we humans are using more of the space they used to have. I dont have a great point of view at this topic because I live on the city so the wildlife is very scarce, but I have had the oportunity to travel to other parts of my country in the last few months and I have seen beautiful places where wildlife co-exists with human-life and I think this is an important thing, sometimes we dont realize we are the ones that are invading the wildlife and that we need to return something to them