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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:11 AM, SJC wrote:

> One thing about the very odd woods noises at night:  it's almost  
> always
> a fight of some sort.

Yeah, Nature is much about eating and being eaten. Most prey stays  
quiet and most predators use stealth. Ah, but then there is, um,  
reproduction. Nothing quite like a couple bucks proving whose  
territory it really is, and they aren't about the browse.

One item of interest: Benny, the Aussie, who also sleeps on the  
porch, did not make a sound. This says to me that he was either  
scared or as curious as I and just didn't know how to react. Or maybe  
like his master, it takes a while to come out of deep sleep and get  
the gray stuff moving.