animal encounters

If you've lived in this area for any length of time, you're probably aware that we're in the midst of deer mating season, a time of year when car-versus-deer incidents really go up.

Like many people, my family has had a couple of wild/undesirable animal visitors over the years. When I was a kid, my grandmother called my dad in a panic because she had just encountered a rat "the size of a Volkswagen" in her basement laundry room...