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In his book Blind Faith, about the murder of Maria Marshall in the 1980s, the author describes Toms River as a suburb without any "urb".
Your comment made me remember that.
It is pretty funny. We always had wild turkeys showing up in Bergen County. My brother saw one in my mom's backyard a couple of weeks ago.
Last year I walked into the woods at the end of my street. There was a red fox. It ran, but stopped a little ways away and we looked at each other through the trees for a while.
I was excited to see it and told my friend, and she was horrified and said "Good thing it ran and didn't attack you." Huh? Why would a fox attack me, unless it was rabid or something? As a matter of fact, I saw one in the yard earlier this week while in my alternate universe up north. I told it to stay and ran in the house to get it some dog kibble and left it on the dock, and it waited until I got about 20 feet away and then ate the kibble. But that is how some people think.
Then you have the opposite, like that guy on the Nature forum who wants to know if it's OK to hug seals he sees on the beach.
Wait until bears become a nuisance in their neighborhoods.
I'll never forget the time we caught a bear on our deck looking through our sliding glass door, just checking things out.
He climbed a set of stairs to the deck about 20 feet or so off the ground. Loved it!
Another one was in a tree looking in our kitchen window.
Lived in Sussex County.
My sister's in Hamburg. Her husband was out in the back of their townhouse grilling dinner, and a bear came walking by. Residents are not supposed to put out bird feeders because of the bears, but one neighbor decided they didn't mean HIM, and the bear was going to get a snack from the feeder.
They have no natural enemies nearby that's the problem.
Not entirely true-at least until they're fully grown foxes, coyotes, raccoons, hawks, etc...get lots of them. Once they are capable of roosting they are pretty safe, but the latter varmints can still ambush them once in a while.
That's a lot of turkeys. I can see how a senior female would feel threatened by that.
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