So, my cat is peering around my fence, looking a bit spooked. I'm thinking she is either stalking my other cat, or some other neighborhood feline or dog. I decide to go investigate since she is pretty riveted on whatever has her attention. As I get to where she is, my approach startles a huge turkey vulture that I didn't see until it flapped its nasty self right past me. Then I notice two others circling overhead. Damn! Those ugly suckers are HUGE!
Well, where there are vultures there is carrion. So I look further and find one dead opposum, rotten and swarming with flies. Poor guy. I had been seeing him almost every afternoon scavenging for food. Wondered why I hadn't seen him for a few days.
Then, maybe five feet away, are two dead rat carcasses. WTF?? I pick up the cat and decide we need to get inside to saner surroundings until I figure out how my back yard turned into a scene from Night of the Living Dead...
Well, where there are vultures there is carrion. So I look further and find one dead opposum, rotten and swarming with flies. Poor guy. I had been seeing him almost every afternoon scavenging for food. Wondered why I hadn't seen him for a few days.
Then, maybe five feet away, are two dead rat carcasses. WTF?? I pick up the cat and decide we need to get inside to saner surroundings until I figure out how my back yard turned into a scene from Night of the Living Dead...
