Though I suppose New Orleans counts as a major metropolitan area --

Dec 08, 2011 22:21

-- you know you are no longer truly a city dweller when you come home to find an enormous possum under your house ( Read more... )

noooooo, home ownership, new orleans

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shayheyred December 9 2011, 15:46:38 UTC
R.O.U.S. indeed, hee!
(Though I always conflate that with the Giant Rat of Sumatra, the sadly never-written Sherlock Holmes story.)

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yahtzee63 December 9 2011, 19:25:58 UTC
Well, Sherlock can come check it out here, because that pretty much had to be it under my house. Nor did it flop down and pretend to be dead, as I had understood to be classic behavior, but just glared at me, like, "What?"

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nomadicwriter December 9 2011, 20:23:26 UTC
This webcomic was just linked by somebody at scans_daily over on Dreamwidth. I believe it to be relevant to your interests.

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yahtzee63 December 9 2011, 21:04:16 UTC
VERY relevant. :D

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ratcreature December 9 2011, 21:06:02 UTC
Well, you can find all sorts of smart and adaptable animals in cities. As the clever ones adjust to urban areas more and more species can become nuisances, even large animals. Here some wild boars unfortunately take to city living and do damage by messing up gardens. Thankfully not so much in my city (though last year there was an incident with a group of a dozen animals causing havok in an office building where they broke in through a window and a stupid one jumped in front of a subway train), but from what I hear Berlin has a more constant boar problem. There are said to be 4000 wild pigs in that city and up to ten thousand if you count the whole metropolitan area with suburbia and wooded areas. IIRC a few years ago police had to shoot some boars rampaging at the Alexanderplatz in the city center.

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yahtzee63 December 9 2011, 21:52:47 UTC
Had no idea Berlin was dealing with a Boar issue. Wow.

That said, New Orleans is urban in only the most technical sense. I mean, a couple months ago we had traffic advisories because of smoke from the swamp fires. This is really more the possum's turf than mine. Certainly he seemed to think so.

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ratcreature December 9 2011, 22:06:33 UTC
My city used to be partially swamp land, but not caring about ecology we drained it all centuries ago. So no swamp fires here. Are possums loud and obnoxious? My brother has a problem with a marten at his place, that makes a racket every night in their attic, but he can't figure out how the animal gets in and out.

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joylee56 December 10 2011, 00:05:28 UTC
Possums (assuming they are the same kind we have up here which does seem like a rather large range) are useful creatures. They eat slugs and other unpleasant things.

I too am enjoying Once Upon a Time. To the extent that I have been hunting down fic on Fanfiction.net and reading it. Apparently I have no shame.

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icewormlj December 11 2011, 07:21:25 UTC
I hadn't thought to do that yet. Thanks for the brain jog.

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marionravenwood December 10 2011, 07:47:44 UTC
I also have possums, and while you expect to have them in Atlanta, I live in Midtown, not the suburbs. They like the food I put out for the feral cats.


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