animals acting strange

[Glory in print]

This is strange..I was reading this thread earlier today then I left in my car went down my street, and I seen a bunch of turtles crawling on the road, in all my years I have never seen that many turtles on the road at the same time.
I also seen a bear yesterday, the first time in years.

[FaithContender]

The same thing happened where I work about 2 years ago we called animal control and the girl told me that a robin will see its reflection in the window and think it is another male robin and want to fight. It will keep comming back to were it saw that bird untill it thinks it won the fight haha!! Pretty weird we covered the window with paper it finally left!!

My mom's coworker did the same thing and it still keeps flying into the window!

[tml1432]

I am not sure where you live, but i know that where my parents live up around Medina and Bandera alot of ranchers have been trapping all the exotics that have been roaming free and putting them on their ranches....i rarely ever see axis deer anymore. White tail are still around but i dont see near as many when i go home to visit as i used to.

We are between Kerrville and Medina. If I do see any deer it is one or two... and they are alone - no 5 and 6 deer herds. Or they are dead on the side of the road.

[HSmomto4]

i saw that on the news too.

how common are those black "panthers" in that area? :scratch or was it a very dark Mtn lion? or a zoo escapee?

They are almost all gone now. When my father was a child though, you would see them all the time in the orange groves. They never messed with anyone though. Maybe they are angry because they have had all thier homes taken away and killed off?

[Kerusso02]

We are between Kerrville and Medina. If I do see any deer it is one or two... and they are alone - no 5 and 6 deer herds. Or they are dead on the side of the road.

Well nice to meet ya. You are the first person ive met on here that is so close to home.

I will be sure and ask around the next time i go up there and see if any of the ranchers have noticed the same thing and have any ideas why it might be.

[tygerkittn]

I also seen a bear yesterday, the first time in years.

OK, I'm in Georgia, where did you see the bear so I can NOT go there? :fear :panic

[Glory in print]

OK, I'm in Georgia, where did you see the bear so I can NOT go there? :fear :panicEton, its in murray county.

[tygerkittn]

Eton, its in murray county.

Thank you, I'm in Gwinnett so I think that's far enough away.
I read a Reader's Digest story when I was a kid about a grizzly ripping someone's arm off and I've wanted to avoid bears ever since. :twitch

[Wings]

Where in E. Texas? I'm in Longview....:hat

[RebMel]

I don't know if this has to do with animals. . . more like nature in general.

Okay, going to sound nuts here, but here goes:

I drive a newspaper route in the morning (also run my own business. The route takes two and a half hours, is early in the morning, leaves me free to do my own business the rest of the day). I leave the house usually around four and it is dark for a good hour into the route.

Usually I really enjoy the route. I live in a rural area and I get to take a lot of back roads with woods, fields and farms. There's no traffic yet, it's quiet. I have the window down and enjoy the breeze, the smells, and the wildlife I run across.

I've noticed that the animals come in trends. One day I'll see a lot of deer, but hardly anything else. The next day, I'll have a lot of birds in the road, but hardly anything else. Another day it's rabbits. On another, cats. Today, it was raccoons (I saw six) but nothing else. That in itself I think is kind of wierd. There was even one day where all I saw was livestock outside of their fences: 1 cow at one place, 6 sheep at another, 1 lamb someplace totally different. That same day, I had a farm goose stand in the middle of the road and hiss at me. It didn't want to let me pass, I had to 'sneak' the car around it very slowly.

Anywho, the trends are a little wierd (things that make you go 'hmm' but probably not significant.

The other thing though is harder to put my finger on, but really creeps me out: Lately, just the past week or so, the ride isn't pleasant anymore. Some of the back roads I find myself putting my window up and praying for protection. I've seen things in the underbrush, about the height of a deer, but when the light hits them, their eyes don't reflect green like normal, but bright orange. I get bad feelings in the woods, as though when I put my arm out to deliver the paper something is going to grab it. I find myself feeling anxious the entire first hour while it is still dark, and I can't explain it.

I grew up out in the country, dirt roads, nearest neighbor a mile away, and never thought anything of walking miles in the dark. Now I can barely drive it. It is as though the whole of nature has taken a turn towards being menacing (sorry, that's the only word I can think of). I always felt a part of nature before, accepted by it as part of the scheme of things. Now, I feel as though it has subtly changed and that it no longer views me as something to be accepted, but something foreign (like antibodies going after a virus in your body's immune system -- ?)

Has anyone else felt this lately?