So I was out running yesterday on a road by a small stream out in the boonies and I almost stepped on one of these:
and it scared the shit out of me. I wish I had a video of my reaction because I must have jumped 3 feet in the air. I don't really mind snakes, but he kinda took me by suprise. Afterwards I thought it was cool; I always like it when I see some kind of uncommon wild creature. It makes me feel like Marlin Perkins or something.
I also saw a raccoon on my roof the other night, which was awesome. The weird thing is I live in the middle of a city and I didn't think there were any animals like that around, but I think it's cool that animals can still survive in urban environments like that. Plus raccoons are cute.

and it scared the shit out of me. I wish I had a video of my reaction because I must have jumped 3 feet in the air. I don't really mind snakes, but he kinda took me by suprise. Afterwards I thought it was cool; I always like it when I see some kind of uncommon wild creature. It makes me feel like Marlin Perkins or something.
I also saw a raccoon on my roof the other night, which was awesome. The weird thing is I live in the middle of a city and I didn't think there were any animals like that around, but I think it's cool that animals can still survive in urban environments like that. Plus raccoons are cute.
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I see raccoons almost every day where I live. My dog is constantly chasing them. They're extremely cute little varmints, so I don't get too mad when I hear them digging in the trash at 3 am.
I also have a friend near there who has a 'mink problem.' Apparently some well-intention animal rights activists freed these minks from a nearby farm, and they got into the woods and started breeding like rabbits. Now he can look out his back window and see an undulating wave of them crossing the deck, hunting down all the neighborhood chipmunks and bunnies (who knew mink where pack-hunting carnivores?) Stupid activists had no idea what problems they were causing to the local ecosystem.