LET'S TALK WILDLIFE!

    WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

          LET'S TALK WILDLIFE!

   September 4th is "National Wildlife Day!"

Just so you know we're talking about animals,

not parties! The day was established in 2005

by animal behaviorist Coleen Paige to bring

awareness to endangered animals worldwide

and the importance of maintaining animal

habitats. We don't have many wild animals

around our house. There was a bear around

for awhile but we haven't seen it recently.

We do have a groundhog that's been

hanging around eating my wife's tomato

plants to stay healthy for his annual

February weather prediction. Lately,

however, there are signs of an annual

wild visitor that he are desperately

trying to locate to another habitat.

It's a skunk, although I don't think

it's the same one we've trapped at

least a half dozen times. On each

occasion we've relocated the animal

at least ten miles away from our

place! We're told you have to go that

far to assure they don't find there

way back. So on this National

Wildlife Day I'm hoping we catch

the latest visitor so we can join

the others for which we've found

a new home. I'm hoping it doesn't

make a "big stink" about the

relocation so that all our, and your,

NEWS will be good!