i heard foxes are urban pests in the uk a la raccoons, thats so rad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
a bunny lives in my yard, and a raccoon skulks thru now and then. I saw him amble down a tree and walk carefully on the fence to the dumpster. we tolerate each other. the squirrels around here are ~brazen~, no manners whatsoever
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Oh we have tons of squirrels, yeah. I actually saw a black one a couple times last year. That was pretty sweet.
There was a fox who used to live in my parents backyard on Long Island. It was gorgeous.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
The idea of rampaging hordes of turkeys and foxes is doing my head in.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
I mean ppl think we have kangaroos and koalas just roaming about everywhere here and we dont.
but why
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
i have it on good authority (internet) that the squirrels of the university of chicago were imported from oxford, to present a likeness, and that they bred with the local sciurus carolinensis and can now generally be considered scofflaws, str8 rolling you for seeds or any other stowable
i saw some idiot deer in montana, no amount of yelling would get them to flee into the woods. i even pantomimed a rifle---nothing. i saw no bears, and i can't decide if i'm happy about that or not
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
xp that is a v good q
Years ago RS and I were walking home late one night when an enormous opossum walked about 5 feet in front of us. We both startled but he literally jumped a bit and sort of grabbed me and gasped "WTF IS THAT?!". I was all "Dude, I know they're gross but chill" until I realized that they don't have opossums in England and he'd never even seen a pic of a NA one and basically thought it was some mutant giant rat. iirc Australian ones are cute. Ours? Not so cute.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
deer are hella brazen in this day and age, who even knows whats going on w/this country anymore
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:22 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, kind of, but most city people like having them around. It's just the country folk who want to chase them down and have their dogs rip them apart.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
The deer on Fire Island used to eat out of our hands.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
i would be super psyched to have foxes instead of raccoons foxes r hella cool
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Hahah E yeah I never knew american opossums were these hideous devilbeasts til an ILX thread a while ago. I'd always wondered why "Bitey" on the Simpsons looked so jaggedy and vicious.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
It was an eye opening thread!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
I saw squrls when I was in the UK just chillin out all over like nbd, it was the best.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
We do have foxes here too btw, but I dont live in the suburbs, so I never see em. N's parents had some chooks, and a fox killed them :(
raccoons are pretty cool when all you're used to is foxes
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they'll eat your chickens. Anti-fox people have said that they'll eat your cats, but having lived in places which are both cat and fox heavy, I have never heard tell of such a thing. I have definitely heard tell of cats and foxes hanging out, though.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Cats'll eat the chooks too if they get feral enough.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
(prob from hanging out with the foxes, indeed, lol)
We have Owls too, which one night when I was living on the gulf coast, I had been drinking a little and decide to take a walk on the beach. I suddenly froze because i saw a short creature a few feet in front of me that had turned it's head to look at me and I could see these big glowing eyes, Suddenly it spread, what seemed like huge arms and took off. Embarrassingly I actually screamed, I thought it was a little devil, but no it was only an Owl.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
Owls still give me the creeps.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
you saw the mothman
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
i was swimming with friends one night and when we were walking back a m-fin screech owl went off like a howling old witch and my friend dave picked up a rock. i'd say that it was embarrassing (it was), but more than one person was standing on one foot, hands clawed like there were mice just fucking everywhere all over the floor. fukkin love owls
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
Took this a couple years ago outside my old place:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2eatjbo.jpg
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
those guys are so rad
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
god i can't remember, why are animal eyes so shiny again? there's like a reason for this, and i am irritated that i can't remember it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
i am the cosmos i am the wind
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I don't know about the eyes. Huh. Weird thing about that was that I didn't realize there were two of them until I saw the second pair of eyes. Totally thought it was one lonely guy just thinkin' bout things.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Astrid_com_orelhonas-crop.jpg
Odd-eyed cat, photograph showing eyeshine and red-eye effect.
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
best pic, best cat
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
Wish cabbits existed.
― *tera, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
two in cahoots guys plotting about things
― estela, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
raccoons are disgusting h8 those gross dudes creeping around all hunchbacked making weird nosies, cats r way too big to be eaten by a fox
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah foxes are surprisingly short guys. I've seen cats take on large dogs and send the dogs yelping.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
cats r pound for pund quite devastating, prob only weasels are badder ass
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
You wanna talk weird noises, the scream of a vixen is one of nature's most unnerving
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
squirrels round my way so fuckin' cheeky, you can walk past within literal grabbing distance and they just give you the eye, idk i feel they should be more afeared of their human overlords.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6623437525_00133bf8cf_z.jpg
also urban foxes, generally nocturnal but i've seen a couple strolling down the street at 9am, broad daylight, no fear.
― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh our possums may look cute but by god they make devil sounds, a guttural growling hiss, it's freaky.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
i have monkeys in the park behind my office. just discovered this 2 days ago when i went there for a walk at lunchtime. also, i support the sentiment up thread that monkeys are assholes. i think i've already vented against them somewhere on ilx.
― Jibe, Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
DeerWoodchucksFoxesHeronsBuzzards AKA turkey vultures (given all the roadkill, I LIKE the idea of critters that dine on roadside carnage)OpossumsIf I drive to work through Great Falls, sometimes I see horses
― challoped potatoes (j.lu), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
I live opposite a cemetery and I often see the following in there:
DeerTurkeysGroundhogsChipmunksBluejaysCardinalsThose red breasted Jays americans insist on calling robinsMorning DovesMonarch ButterfliesGeeseDucks
Down at the plant all that and a lot of Kildeer
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/2mdwn4.jpg
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
rabit squirrels
― remy bean, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link