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I've had a few encounters within distance to wild animals.
The first was when I was in highschool. I was babysitting for this family who had two young boys. Well they were in bed and I was sitting in the livingroom, in the dark, watching television. They had a sliding glass door and the deck lights were on. So as I'm watching tv I notice something move out of the corner of my eye. I screamed...a hairy animal with a long tail that looked like a rat was scurring right by the sliding glass door. It was the ugliest, most hideous looking thing I've ever seen...and also called a Possum.
The second enounter a year later. I was home alone and my neighbor Maralyn called and asked if I could come over because there was some animal on her deck and her drunken boyfriend wouldn't do anything about it ~what I (a teenager) was supposed to do is beyond me. But, I go over there and her dog is on the deck and close to it is...YOU GUESSED IT...a possum! That thing looked like it had fangs...and it was white with beady red eyes. So yeah, I got her dog to get inside quickly and the damn thing went about it's own business.
My third and final story (sorry these aren't so funny)...was just this year. It didn't happen to me but my family instead. My dad often lets our very old and slow dog out at 5 am when he gets up. I guess when he went to let him in he couldn't find him. So he hollard for him and slowly the dog makes his way up the deck stairs...but right behind him was a racoon. My dad scurries the dog in quickly and slams the door. He said you could tell the thing was rabbid.
So later that day my brother had to walk home from school and cut through our backyard like he always does, and I guess the raccoon was in the backyard still. So my brother made a run for it, but the poor thing was so sick he couldn't hardly move. I guess they had to call the humaine society to get him.
Hootie
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