You just reminded me that I want to put out small dishes of sunflower seed, cheap cat & dog food, maybe even a water dish, etc. just to get a little more action going.
Kind of hard here as there are many patrolling dogs and cats that are hungry enough to prowl the neighbors for scraps and food dishes to raid.
Had mostly wild critters on the mountain and a lot fewer dogs to run them off so I was getting a lot more variety. Did not have a dog there on the place Iike we do here.
Will have to experiment…
Also, today, Blondie was going at the corn like a deer does while we were there. I wonder what they feed her at her house? She is too fat to not be getting anything…
Oh yes, he is on guard duty for us. So he breaks up the deer real regular. I think he does not scare them that much as they keep coming back and just watch for him. Bawahahahaha
Eco & Sam from across the road cruise through also. Out cats in the day time and at night, there are 3-4 that come through semi-regular. The white one, the stripped one from the last few nights and a calico from up the road a ways.
Had one coyote so far that I know of, couple of skunks, etc. Just need a bigger variety of food out but… With lose dogs, that food gets eaten to quick for the wild critters to find it and as soon as any of the dogs discover a critter, the chase is on so the ones like I had down on the mountain are scarce.
I had lots of skunks, possums, coyote, fox, armadillo, rabbits, which I have here, just not at the feeder much. We also have a resident road runner almost all summer. Not sure where it is right now.
Having Zeus on guard duty is worth more to us than the lack of critters he may cause. Just the different, more built up area is not nearly as good for a big variety of critters.
I moved the one camera to see if I can get morte interesting shots.
I’ve had armadillos dig up freshly planted stuff looking for worms.
Road runners, in Arkansas?
You do not fear for your animals outside with coyotes around?
Our 8 cats are put up each night. We did that on the mountain also as there were many more critters that would get a domestic cat. But there was a good sized feral community of cats on that mountain so I don’t know for sure. Around here, hawks & owls are the biggest taker of cats next to cars.
Lost more dogs on the mountain to irate chicken owners than we did to coyotes. I guess coyotes had easier things to catch.
Up here is the first place we have had a dog and at 130 pounds, the coyotes would have to be very hungry. Seldom here of any dogs gone missing from critters. Lots of the kind people steal in closer to the towns and gentrified areas.
We here coyotes at night when we have the windows open but they are across the valley or way South of us as we are in the area between town living and boon dock living. Lots of dogs running lose and lots of shooting all around. Too much for the coyotes I would think. Coyotes move in to many places but with all the shooting, that just might be the tipping point and the fact that the local dogs put up a combined howl when they see/smell a coyote.
Prolly do take a dog now and then but not right around here.
18°F here right now so I added another corn dish and put out a little hay to see if that would interest them now.
In the back of the Mule? Devil, he is turning into a love bug about Zeus. I don’t think Zeus is completely OK with it yet.
I had a feeling he was gonna go to the ‘deer stand’ with us ( me, zeus & blondie ) one of these days and it has been warm enough that the cats don’t just come to the door as soon as they get out of their condo and want in our house. He hitched a ride today. I still can’t get Zeus to get in it. May need to build a ramp & he might.