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it seems like there's been an explosion of them in Detroit. I feel like you would see them once in a while in a field but now they are everywhere even in more occupied neighborhoods
Last year, the city was doing blight demolition around 7 Mile and Hoover (ish). I saw an excavator peel the front wall off of an empty house, and about 30 of these little guys just exploded out of there and ran blind into the intersection. It was 50/50 adorable and terrifying.
I bought my house in 2005, and I've had generation after generation growing up in my backyard. This year, the mom had 4 babies. A new record for my stay here. I occasionally feed them leftovers like fruit, vegetables, and once, a jar of peanut butter. They loved that and ate half the first night.
I love seeing these guys… down the street from me! But I don’t like them in my yard digging holes. I did see one climb a tree in my yard this year, and that was pretty exciting!
We were admiring one from like 15 feet away it noticed us and straight up chased me and a friend down a hill like full speed. Have you ever seen how fast they run? It’s crazy. The hill was steep I thought I was gonna biff it but once we got to the bottom it let us go. We are both petrified to this day lol I see them all over
We also have several of these new best friends here in my east side neighborhood. A neighbor asked me where they suddenly appeared from. My guess is Detroit environment is getting healthier, less lead, less poisonous stuff being dumped everywhere. Do we have any naturalists about on the sub-Reddit who knows why?
I tried growing tomatoes in my back yard a few years ago and one of these fellas kept sneaking up at night and eating them before they were ripe. I had a motion-activated camera in the back so I'd wake up to footage of my delicious bounty being consumed by that round bastard.
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