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Amazing, the lengths animals will take when they're stressed or hungry. We've had sightings of a bear foraging through trash cans in a neighborhood just a few miles from us here, on the northern fringes of Lost Angeles. And a neighbor spotted a bobcat, of all things, padding down the middle of our street a couple of weeks ago. I think what's going on, for us, at least, involves the residual effects of the Station fire, the huge blaze we had in the mountains just to the north of us in 2009. Burned a lot of habitat, killed a lot of animals, and significantly disrupted food supplies for the animals that managed to find shelter and survival. I'd feed 'em all, if I could.
-Jon