The Kid, I am on one of the many islands in the pacific northwest. There are no mountain lions or coyotes here to kill the coons. There are coons, rats, mice, squirrels, nutria, owls, eagles,.... and sometimes a herd of deer swim here and then get hit by a cars. These are black tail deer, and the does are smarter than the bucks when it comes to cars.
5 miles from here across the water on the mainland, the coon population is lower. Raising chickens here is very different from the mainland. Over there coyotes are a problem all day. Coons can't catch a hen in the daytime. Many people have chickens here and lock them up at night so the coons don't get them.
Everyone here complains about rats and coons. They all have guards on the chimneys to keep them from nesting in there.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
