Ah, the critters! Yes, we have some... and I mean aside from our cats and the obnoxious pack rats all around our property. We're living up high in the boulders, kinda untamed neighbourhood, so there are some surprises...
First up, regularly, we have deer, practically coming right up to our entrance door, they haven't eaten up too much of our plants ( my herb beds are screened in..) , so we still like them 🙂
But here is a new one, most of you might never have heard of : a javelina ! I had never heard of them either before moving to Arizona, but here we are - and here they are as well. A group of 3 or 4 occasionally come right through our property, right close to the guest apartment 🙂 So we like to show them off when they come through. They are rather harmless, still I don't want to get too close - you never know! They snort and look VERY weird. Most people think they are something like wild boars, but they are not. They are almost blind, mostly night creatures, but we have seen them during daylight as well.
Finally, just a few weeks ago, we had a whole fan club of skunks getting too comfortable right under our house. Every night the lovely smell... reading up on it, apparently it is mating season and that happens when the female rejects a certain suitor. Oh no! better get them outta there before they have their babies.! (due in late April or May)...so we got busy and put out these traps... in no time, every morning we had the cages full - caught 7 of those monkeys!!! Who you gotta call? Your local wildlife officers! They picked them up and relocated them far enough away in the woods. Just to make sure we got them all, we left the traps up a few extra days,until only the neighbourhood cats got caught. So then it was time to screen in the nooks and crannies under the house. Good bye skunks, go find another Airbnb lodging, sorry we had to cancel you!
And that's the way it is at our place in Prescott, Arizona 🙂
btw: we are NOT like Phoenix at all - people forget that Arizona also has mountains, so we are at 5500 feet altitude, mountain area, 2 hours south of the Grand Canyon - we're living in a beautiful part of the country!