Animals in Suburb
By dreamertink
@dfollin (26626)
United States
October 23, 2025 11:08pm CST
I live in a suburban area in Virginia. And as a child and a teenager I don't remember seeing many wild type animals in our neighborhoods. Besides squirrels, birds and stray cats.
However as an adult we lived in a mobile home park that was off the major highway. We smelled skunks and there was a huge groundhog that had apparently been there for years! Many deer in the area too. We moved up the road about 2 miles to a house in a development where there were always a lot of wild critters coming in the yard, deer, fox, racoons, rabbits and other's.
Then we moved up the road about two miles and there was a fox there that had apparently been in that area that was in a built up area. On a major highway, next to a large housing development, across from a shopping mall, more apartments, condos and townhouses.
Again we moved a bit farther out but still in the suburbs and I posted a discussion on myLot about two weeks ago of some deer I saw outback. Many times we see lizards and iguana's. And unfortunatley a few snakes!
The other day my granddaughter and I were watching the squirrels in the trees in the woods behind our apartment and running around in the grassy area in between our building and the trees when all of the sudden there was a fox! But I wasn't fast enough to get a picture also because the fox was moving quickly!
I suppose thru those years that I was a kid and teenager so much progress has happened that the animals have no place to go
Is it that way in your area?
The other day my granddaughter and I were watching the squirrels in the trees in the woods behind our apartment and running around in the grassy area in between our building and the trees when all of the sudden there was a fox! But I wasn't fast enough to get a picture also because the fox was moving quickly!
I suppose thru those years that I was a kid and teenager so much progress has happened that the animals have no place to go
Is it that way in your area?11 people like this
13 responses
@RasmaSandra (90145)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1h
How interesting i would love to see a fox, I have an opposum that comes to eat leftovers at night,
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
Just now
When I was a child we had several outdoor cats and when we gave them food, usually tuna and milk and water. My grandfather had to get a flood light and put it on the house to keep the possum's from chasing the cats away and steeling their food.
When I can get a picture or video of the fox I will post it or send it to you.
@GardenGerty (166135)
• United States
3h
Our area is rural enough we see lots of all kinds of animals. It adds to the day. Fox, possum, squirrel, coyote, bob cat, armadillo, deer and probably other things as well. All kinds of birds.
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
1h
In some ways you are lucky and in some ways your not. I would not like to walk out my door and see a bobcat!
@aninditasen (17716)
• Raurkela, India
8h
In my city people are clearing forest and building houses and therefore cats, dogs and especially elephants have started coming close to human habitat.
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
6h
ELEPHANTS!!!!!!!? I only thought they were in open area's like deserts or such. Here we only see them in the zoo or circus. If I walked out my front door and saw an elephant I would freak! Cat's and dogs live in the woods too? Here they are pets. There are cats that are outdoor cats that are mostly abandoned or born by abandoned cat's.
@LindaOHio (204195)
• United States
10h
We have deer, fox, possums, woodchucks, squirrels, turkeys, etc. There are occasional sightings of black bears.
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
5h
I have heard of sittings of black bears here through the past 10 years or so. One time one was seen walking down the highway!!!!!!! You have turkeys wandering around? wow! I see them on farms?
@Namaco21 (282)
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11h
It’s the same in my area too. As more land gets developed, animals are losing their natural habitats, so they’re moving closer to where people live. It’s kind of amazing to see deer, foxes, and raccoons in suburban yards — but also sad, because it shows how much nature has been pushed out.
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
5h
I have mentioned that to people before and they get mad at me for being concerned.
@DaddyEvil (160265)
• United States
13h
A few years ago Pretty and I moved from the center of our small city to the outskirts of the same city. This house was built in the 1940s and has a large back yard that backs onto a small forest with a ravine along the back side of the forest. (The ravine ends in one direction in a larger forest and in the other direction the ravine keeps going out to an overgrown area that used to be mines for nickel and lead. Those mines are all flooded and that area is blocked off and posted by the city.) We often see wild animals come up out of the ravine and eat grass in our back yard.
We watch squirrels, birds, skunks, raccoons and a couple of times, deer in our back yard. I've tried taking pictures but the screens over the kitchen window make pictures blurry when I can get something besides a picture of the window screens themselves.
All the animals run away if they see us in the windows or going out into the yard.
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@dfollin (26626)
• United States
5h
Yeah when the deer saw me they would stand frozen starring at me. In our windows have screens in the bottom part, but not the top. So I took some pictures there after I realized I goofed and took pictures thru the screen, so they weren't very visable! LOL1
@dfollin (26626)
• United States
5h
Yeah! I guess they don't have much of a choice anymore because of so much progress happening. I was told that foxes run from humans because they are afraid of them, but then I was told by the same person during the same conversation that one attacked a woman and son in this county. But I cannot seen to find that in any news so far.
@Traceyjayne (6026)
• United Kingdom
2h
Way …you have seen so many animals close to your houses.
Here we only really get squirrels, hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits and in some places deer.
@arunima25 (92524)
• Bangalore, India
15h
We don't spot any wild animals here except for stray cats, dogs, occasionally snakes and some yucky disgusting rodents. We do get monkeys visiting us frequently Few years back during lock down time, we had news of leopards spotted at various places in the city. And even now we hear such news some times. We have invaded all the natural habitats of these creatures.
@jefferson126 (3635)
• Shenzhen, China
16h
I like living in suburb with little wild animals except snake,i am scared of snakes.you are happy living in suburb.
