Just for Fun Friday: Don’t feed the animals
A town in California is on high alert after several residents were attacked my a squirrel. One claimed it jumped on her leg while another was sent to the hospital with an arm wound.
A home owner had to hit it with his hat when it kept biting off pieces of his fence.
This is not the first time animals have exhibited strange behaviour. A few years back in British Columbia, a bear walked into a gas station and took a package of Gummy Bears.
Most unusual animal behaviour is due to them becoming accustomed to human presence or the encroachment into their habitat.
I learned my lesson during Covid. I fed birds on my balcony and they would come even while I was sitting right there. So I wondered, “Can I get them to come inside?”
Yeah I thought that. And I could. They would fly inside to feed on the seeds I put on my coffee table. One even landed on the arm of my couch while I was sitting there and voiced its displeasure in the lack of food.
As cute as it was, I decided it could only get worse from there. But I did decide to put out some peanuts for the bluejay until one morning it came and let out the loudest squawk of displeasure in the lack of food.
As beautiful as they are, not the most beautiful voice…that was the end of the free peanut tray.
-Leon
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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