My Desultory Blog

RichC | February 13, 2021

We live in a fairly developed area and yet the variety of animals surviving amidst the traffic and people continues to amaze me. When we built in Liberty Township, Ohio in the mid-1990s you would have called our area “developing but rural.” Now, there is no question we are suburban and “in my opinion” … […]

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Tags: backyard, cat, coyote, dog, fence, fox, liberty township, mink, ohio, possum, raccoon, skunk, snow, tootsie, tracks, wildlife

RichC | November 13, 2019

For years in our increasingly populated (with people) Liberty Township, Ohio community has had a fair amount of wildlife roaming our neighborhoods. I’ve commented several times before and have never really been concerned when the critters are of the fox and smaller variety. Raccoons are still my least favorite, but those pesky chipmunks have recently […]

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Tags: animals, backyard, coyote, dogs, fox, liberty township, neighborhood, ohio, raccoon, skunk, wildlife

RichC | June 17, 2017

The population of rodents and critters has risen in the years we’ve been living in Liberty Township, Ohio. We have either encroach on the critters … or more likely encroached on the predators of the critters. In either case, we have more and more of them in our yard and boldly closing in on the […]

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Tags: chipmunk, critters, hawke, raccoon, shooting, skunk, squirrel

RichC | May 24, 2017

As less developed areas evolve from rural to suburban, many homeowner and the critters who call the area home, are faced with figuring out how to live together or struggle to set boundaries. We have never lived in urban or fully developed areas so dealing with Ohio’s variety of wildlife is normal. In the early […]

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Tags: homeowner, livetrap, pests, problems, raccoon, rural, skunk, suburban, urban, video