I don't know what it is, but down here (SE Texas) something has been going on with the predator wildlife for some years here now...living here inthisrural area just sorth of Houston 40yrs, I have never seen such an over-run of predators around here. Its unbeleivable....I hear at least dozens of coyotes close by regularly at night, and i do mean close, within several hundred feet of my home, several times almost out my windows. abobcat took a 9 mosold kitty I had a few months ago, literally right from under my house, about dusk. And a few weeks ago, I walked out on a bobcat in my backyard, not 15 ft from my back stops. It might sound cool, but believe me, that's very discomforting. My cousin had to take rabies shots 2 yrs ago, when a bobcat ran out from under a porch of a house and bit him, then escaped, west of here inn the hill country. One of my neighbors looked out her kitchen window one moring while doing dishes, and there was a bobcat at the edge of her yard, not 40 ft away, sitting there, watching her. We have it seems absolutely NO feral cats around here anymore,which used to be annoyingly plentiful, and every neighbor I know has no cats left except entirely indoors cats,same for really small dogs. I haven't seen any wild rabbits in some years now.
In and around nearby Houston, bobcats and coyotes and wild hogs are entering areas never imagined...people along several bayous/water canals near down town Houston, inside the loop. can't leave their pets out unprotected, for them coming up from the bayous and getting them, even out of fenced back yards.
Maybe it these years of drought, i don't know. I've never seen or heard of it this bad. I've never in my 40 yrs here locally seen a time you never see a sign of a wild rabbit or deer, whether live or as road kills. Other strange things. I never even knew there were river otters near me, I'm miles from a river, and one came loping through my back yard in the middle ofthe sat last year!
In and around nearby Houston, bobcats and coyotes and wild hogs are entering areas never imagined...people along several bayous/water canals near down town Houston, inside the loop. can't leave their pets out unprotected, for them coming up from the bayous and getting them, even out of fenced back yards.
Maybe it these years of drought, i don't know. I've never seen or heard of it this bad. I've never in my 40 yrs here locally seen a time you never see a sign of a wild rabbit or deer, whether live or as road kills. Other strange things. I never even knew there were river otters near me, I'm miles from a river, and one came loping through my back yard in the middle ofthe sat last year!
