Do you have stray or wild animals outside your STRs?

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I've got a lot of stray cats around my places. I tried trapping some there were around my apartments. I used a box trap. My maintenance guy saw coyotes going into the traps and stealing the bait. Their body is longer than a cat, so the door of the trap wouldn't close.

So I put these lines up on my Craigslist ad:

New for 2020, all houses now have indoor plumbing and an outdoor cat^. Feel free to take outdoor cat^ with you when your work is done here. Really, I mean it. Take the cat^ with you.

^Outdoor cat may be substituted by stray dog, rabbit, hawk, squirrel, coyote^^ or fox^^.^^Coyote or fox only at apartments, not at houses.

Julie McCoy · Answer

Bears. Lots of bears. Raccoons (was showing a cabin last weekend and there was a raccoon on the back deck). Skunks. Coyotes, deer, etc. Rattlesnakes. My housekeeper sent me a photo yesterday of a bear she practically tripped on when she walked out of a cabin the other day, LOL

Leora Merrell · Answer

We’ve seen bears, turkeys, raccoons, fox and elk. Also just discovered tons of scorpions. Had no idea they were all over the Smokies.

Anand S. · Answer

We're on a state park so we get a lot of Florida wildlife like Iguanas, ducks, turtles, snakes, herons, racoons, etc. No alligators, thankfully.

Evan Polaski · Answer

Oh mother nature!

Thankfully in our urban setting, nothing other than the occasional neighborhood cat strolling by, or the over-served patron from the hole-in-the-wall drinking establishment across the street. Thankfully the latter has never been more than a little hooting and hollering on a Thursday-Saturday night.

Nathan Gesner · Answer

Deer, elk, raccoons, mice, fox, and the occasional mountain lion or Grizzly bear. Other than that, it's a pretty quiet area.

John Underwood · Answer

Our house borders a wooded area around the lake so theire is wildlife around. Mainly deer and squirrels. No cats.

Do you have stray or wild animals outside your STRs?

Do you have stray or wild animals outside your STRs?

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