Check out what the little striped buggers built this summer:
It’s in a tree branch right above our garage, and it escaped my notice until yesterday, when I was mucking around behind the garage to re-string some invisible dog fence wire. The nest is a bit bigger than a basketball.
Because of the cold, the previous [...]
I call this composition “Hope Springs Eternal”. (Alternately: “Gravity, Do Your Thing!”)
One of the neighborhood cats must have heard about the abundance of mice in our house, because it paid us a visit to see about the open Mouser position we had advertised in the Cat Bugle. It showed up on our porch right when Robin let the dogs out this afternoon. Unlike the unlucky raccoon, [...]
How you probably didn’t spend your morning:
You probably didn’t let the dogs out at 5AM to have them encounter a raccoon in the enclosed porch. Your dogs probably didn’t proceed to go into full Mortal Kombat mode, and they probably didn’t engage in an all-out fight that took them from the porch out into the [...]
After several nighttime kitchen encounters with increasingly brazen mice, I have dusted off the Snap-A-Neck brand mouse traps. Last night, I put out a single trap in my prime killing spot, the end of the dark alley formed by the back of the microwave. It’s like a high-speed Ho Chi Minh Path for rodents, giving [...]
So I was sitting at my desk just fifteen minutes ago, scribbling a few paragraphs of the current work in progress, when I heard a rather loud scraping and shuffling sound on the outside wall of the kitchen.
Now, I’m used to hearing scampering rodents and raccoons all over the place, including the roof at night, [...]
We have a new crime scene!
Some time last night, an unknown animal traversed our property. It knocked over our composter, pulling the anchors out of the earth completely, and disassembling the segments in the process.
It ate all the recently dumped melon rinds, banana peels, and other not-quite-rotted items.
Then it wandered over to the bird [...]
Lest it be said that I am a heartless rodent killer…this little guy was captured after being cornered in the sitting room, used as a biology lesson for the kids, and then set free in a non-critical area on the property.
When I told Quinn that Mr. Baby Mouse needed a place to stay where [...]
Can anyone give me a positive ID on the avian trespasser pictured below?
It looks like a Chinese Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) to me, but I’ve never seen one in the feathers, so to speak. Also, I don’t think that kind of pheasant is native to NH.
This guy walks around the house once or twice [...]
Here’s a recent incident from Tennessee:
Man shoots neighbor’s Chihuahua.
Cliff Notes: Elderly woman lets her dog out of the house one day, and her cul-de-sac neighbor shoots it through the eye when it comes onto his property unleashed.
Killing dogs–there’s another subject that’s almost as polarizing as religion, as reading through the comment thread of that news [...]
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