Sure, you can occasionally spot a coyote on the Eastside or a few raccoons walking down the street at night in Seattle. But you don’t normally think about the creatures that may be wandering around your house at night. I will ever more, however, after last night’s snowfall. I woke up this morning to eerie proof of urban wildlife: a long track of paw prints in the snow leading from one end of my backyard to the other, right outside my dining room window. Whoever was walking around was big. We’re not talking rats. And its forelegs were bigger than its hind legs, or maybe vice versa. I’m guessing raccoons but who knows? I’ll have to study more tracks to determine. With the way we’re getting snow around here, I may just have the opportunity.
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