My dog is so obsessed with where other dogs pee....
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...we'll know where it started.
Lots of wildlife as live on National Forest inholding.
Also ring tailed cats otherwise known as Miner's cats but we bow have a sort of peace.
One dens under my deck and seems to keep other animals away.
There had been feral cats that had lived in an outbuilding for 15 plus years and they are gone.
Last spring I found 3 "kittens" in grassy weeds near the den.
Moved my compost pile to near the entrance to the "den".
Last month there was a commotion and I went out and had a stare down with two ring tail cats; they were probably mating.
Note: That is not my deck but an internet image.
From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat
The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family, native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat, miner's cat or bassarisk, and is also sometimes mistakenly called a "civet cat" (after similar, though unrelated, cat-like omnivores of Asia and Africa). The ringtail is sometimes called a cacomistle, though this term seems to be more often used to refer to Bassariscus sumichrasti.
I live amid lush forests and ring tailed cats are relatively common. They are nocturnal and one is most likely to see them on the road at night. There are two kinds of skunks here: striped skunks and small spotted skunks. The at least local name for the spotted skunk is "civit cat".
