Yes, raccoons. Otters too, will pull a dog underwater and drown it. We have lots of raccoons and some otters. Otters are more of a concern on a canoe trip. @snowbunny , LOL Onion? Come now, there must be a story behind that name. Is Onion neutered? Raccoons, no matter how young you get them, can get downright vicious with sexual maturity. Neighbours have sort of a self made little wildlife sanctuary (absolutely illegal to keep Ontario wildlife but no one has told on them) and they had to release "Rocky." Rocky was sort of treated like a cat, inside/outside, but after he matured he became very nasty and could no longer be allowed in the house. Rocky hung around one more year but then he disappeared.
I have no idea where the name came from, nor whether he is neutered. His owner is extremely experienced with exotics of all descriptions - in 1999 he was awarded the MBE for services to Bristol Zoo - and his house is like a veritable zoo. Everything from the grumpiest Shetland pony you'll ever meet to African giant snails, poison dart frogs, skunks, an assortment of snakes, a disgusting giant millipede... the list goes on. Oh, and a meerkat, which is the very unfortunate latest addition; it makes me so cross that people think animals like this would make suitable pets and then can't care for them. When the zoo can't take the animals for whatever reason, Seb is there to take them in and give them the best possible life, given the fact they shouldn't be in a domestic environment in the first place.
Coyotes, skunks, raccoons, fox, wild turkeys.....tons of squirrels which I could ship over to the Isle of Man!!! They are cute to watch but drive the dog crazy since they are faster than he is!! Happy we do not have dangerous snakes or large spiders!! I would have to move! Cooper and I live on Cape Cod, USA
I just googled a map of that bit - I'm trying to improve my US geography since we have more US members. I found myself looking at a map that had Barnstable, Warwick, Dartmouth, Falmouth, and the Fall river (which I misread as Fal). I was incredibly confused - brain would not compute shape of land - for quite a while!
Not sure what happened here! I think I was going to comment on my old school friend who now lives in America and has bears coming to her bird feeder and they can never let the dogs out until they have bear watched!
meet a racoon walking on the park on day on a lead with its family. weirdest thing was a man in a full chemical warfare suit and helmet on a bike coming out of the fog
I saw twelve wild boar skip over the path in front of us on our morning walk through the forest today. A couple of minutes later they thundered back over the path, behind us this time. They are skittish at the moment because of all the forestry work going on. Poppy pretends she cant see them
Julie, Cape Cod is in Massachusetts.....Northeast Coast of the US. Cape Cod is an "elbow" sticking out into the Atlantic Ocean!! If you look at Barnstable, you are there!......Boston is the capital of Massachusetts but Cape Cod has water on both sides....a bridge connects us to the "mainland". Hope you can find us!!!!
Yeah...had no real idea where Massachusetts was, sorry... And Barnstable is in Devon. The US seems to have named 75% of the places in Cape Cod after South West England. You even have Plymouth and Truro for goodness sake!
I LOVE Cape Cod - stayed at Harwich with my daughter, it was wonderful. I swam with seals in the ocean - talk about surprising wildlife encounters!
Australia is like that too! Every suburb seems to be either an aboriginal name (e.g. Mooroolbark) or English (e.g. Brighton)!
Yup, lots of British names here, too....our Colonial ancestors obviously had a lack of imagination, I fear....
I sang to seals once to see if they would they come. They did, this huge battered and scared male seal popped to listen. He liked my singing and listened for a while, Doug looked very shocked and looked at me as if to say no way is that coming home with us
oh I live in Leicestershire Karen its a bit strange here sometimes. one morning loads of fit healthy male students were swimming naked in the stream as they were practicing for an Iron man Compation. It made a old lady feel refreshed I can tell you.
LOL, lucky you. Did you stick around just to tease them and see if any would come out? The time I surprised some skinny dippers it was an old man and lady, older than me. Nothing worth seeing there.
Those haggis are a nightmare in breeding season, but as they can only run in circles due to their two short legs we can normally get away ok
Ah yes, I forgot the infamous tamarro. Similar to haggis, they have two legs shorter than the other two, so they can traverse the mountain more easily. The best way to catch a tamarro is to stand at the bottom of the slope with a big bag. Another person, who is well-versed in making the mating call of the tamarro, creeps up behind it and calls. The creature will turn around to look, lose its balance and roll down the hill into the waiting bag. A Tamarro
Wildhaggis(Haggis scoticus) is a creature said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is said to be the source ofhaggis, a traditional Scottish dish that is in fact made from the innards of sheep (including heart, lungs, and liver). According to some sources, the wildhaggis's left and right legs are of different lengths, allowing it to run quickly around the steep mountains and hillsides which make up its natural habitat, but only in one direction. It isfurther claimed that there are two varieties of haggis, one with longer left legs and the other with longer right legs. The former variety can run clockwise around a mountain while the latter can run anticlockwise.The two varieties coexist peacefully but are unable to interbreed in the wild because in order for the male of one variety to mate with a female of the other, he must turn to face in the same direction as his intended mate, causing him to lose his balance before he can mount her. As a result of this difficulty, differences in leg length among the haggis population are accentuated.
