BOO!

Here are a few handy tips for making Halloween a safe day/night for your pets:
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THE NEW ORANGE KITTEN AND HER NEW PAL

The new orange kitten is starting to take over my household … and that means, of course, that my other long-time cat, Newman, is NOT a happy trooper. Every time the kitten gets close to Newman, he lashes his fluffy tail and growls like a dog. The “terrified” kitten just stands there and smiles.

Newman hasn’t figured it out, yet, but the end of his world, as he now knows it, will soon be here.
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I wrote the following reasons for voting YES on Prop 2 in my Times’ daily newspaper column on Sept. 7. Today is Wednesday (Oct. 29) and we will be voting on this issue next Tuesday (Nov. 4).

This is such an important issue, I want to remind you again why you should be giving Prop 2 a YES vote. I can’t think of any better way to say it than the way I did in my column, so here it is again:
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PALLID BATS IN AN ATTIC. BY BRIAN MURPHY.

As Halloween approaches, bat experts brace themselves for the annual barrage of misinformation about these beneficial creatures of the night. The California Department of Fish and Game has put together some excellent information on the subject:
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I heard a coyote howling in Benicia last night. A high-pitched, warbling, soprano barking — Yi-Yi-Yi! It sounded like there were two or three.

It riled the other domestic dogs in the neighborhood and they started to bark. It was like the ripples of a stone tossed in a quiet pool as the barking slowing spread throughout the neighborhood. What a great sound to go to sleep by.
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I’ve had some requests from people wanting to know how to recognize the kind of damage raccoons can do to your lawn.

This photo from one of my readers shows what happens when a small band of 2-4 raccoons go “prowling” through your lawn looking for earthworms and tasty grubs. The raccoons are usually attracted to
our lush, green lawns in the fall when the rest of the countryside turns dry and brown.
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THE ORANGE KITTEN

It’s a “Name Gary’s New Orange Kitten Contest!” The prize is listed below.

I’ve already written about this in my Times column of Oct. 21. The following is excerpted from that column and meant for those of you who only read my blog:
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BLACK-TAILED DEER

During fall and winter months, deer, opossums, squirrels and other wildlife are moving around in search of food and a place to hole up during the cold fall and winter months.
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Gary:
The Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, Calif., is sad to report the death of our resident mountain lion this past Saturday, October 18. She was 17 years old.
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HEY! WHO LET ME OUT OF THE BATHROOM?

Here are a couple more photos of the new orange kitten that has taken over my house. My other beastly cat, Newman, as you might guess … is less than pleased.
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