Wild Times - They Live Among Us

OCDART, I live in Cypress. I have had a pair of huge raccoons in our neighborhood for the 10 years that I have lived at my present location. They don't show up all of the time, just sometimes. I have fruit trees and they will come and eat the oranges that have fallen on the ground. Sometimes they have a young one in tow. I guess they can be pretty mean critters because they don't seem to be afraid of any of the dogs around us. We also get the opposums.

Previous to this house, I lived in another part of Cypress which was near the Los Alamitos Race Track. We would get ducks in our pool, bats flying around, and barn owls out hunting. There was a lot of open land around the track back then.