As I said before, we get lots of animals in our backyard. I already documented in detail how Toby feels about the chipmunks. We also get your normal rabbits and birds going through. It’s fun to watch out the back and see what we can find. Here are a few recent favorites:
CATS
Our neighbors have cats who like to wander into our yard. Really, they like to sit under the deck in our neighbor’s yard, but on their way they tend to catch Toby’s attention and he appropriately barks and makes a fuss. They live across the street from us, and the cats also like to sit out on the bedroom window ledge. You can imagine what this also does to Toby.
SLUGS
Today while doing yard work Adrian found this cool guy in the grass. He tried to eat his hand, but I missed the picture of that. I did, appetizingly, get a nice picture of the goo it excreted. MMM.
(We saw tons of these around last summer, but they seemed to have hibernated for the winter. It was the first time one of us picked them up, though, I think.)
…DEER!!!
This morning Toby was going insane, to the point that I knew it was probably more than just a chipmunk. I figured it was a cat or something. But then I saw that he was looking to the back of the yard, and saw the deer! Two of them! And they finally stayed around long enough this time for me to get a picture. WOO! I mean, how cool is that?! That’s our yard. That deer is standing over the carrot seeds I planted last week. That’s awesome.
The other cool detail is that Toby had run downstairs to the back door and in this picture the deer turned to look at him barking. Somehow I don’t think the deer was too intimidated, though.
After staying for a while, during which time I took a ton of pictures, our animals made a lot of noise, and Adrian tried to show Morgan, the deer wandered back into the woods. Come back soon, friends!
