Looks like we have some new CRITTERS in the neighborhood. Scratchy spotted this one a few weeks ago. It showed up again tonight, long enough to get its picture taken. Not a very good picture, but it was a little freaked out so I didn’t want to try to get too close.
I’ve never seen a raccoon here.
Bear in mind this isn’t exactly country living. I can walk to a shopping mall and almost any major fast food restaurant in under five minutes and drive into downtown Detroit in under twenty.
So I get a little geeked by our CRITTERS.
–I live in a pretty heavily populated inner-ring suburb of a major city and we have racoons everywhere.
A couple of things which I’ve just recently seen for the first time nearby are a badger and an opossum.
Yeah, I guess Raccoons aren’t necessarily deep woods animals or anything. I remember on a trip to Canada once we stopped in this city for dinner. It was a smallish city, but developed and extended for several blocks. Anyhow as we drove we saw this pack of a dozen or so raccoons running through the middle of this city. It was kind of surreal.
We used to have lots of possums, but they’ve been pretty scarce the past five years.
I’ve never seen a badger in the wild.
Just be glad you dont’ see any skunks around! Pe-u!
True dat. I smelled a skunk one night last summer, but never saw it.
I live in backwoods, Kentucky, there are lots of critters ‘roud here. I was driving through a very rural area the other day and almost hit a family of raccoons. Skunks I see all the time, most of them squashed in the middle of the road. No badgers tho.