Tonight , just after sunset my wife and I , and our little dog were taking our usual walk through the neighborhood and we encountered a family of Javelina. Three adults and two juveniles, just like this group
( photo from the internet )
Our neighborhood is all desert landscape with no fences between houses and wildlife is free to move between the houses.
So we were walking down the street and about 50 yards in front of us we see this herd emerge from between two houses and they are running straight for us. Something had spooked them. Their eyesight is poor and they couldn’t see us. Our dog started growling at them, and I’m thinking oh crap! The presence of young ones made them a lot more unpredictable and I didn’t want them running right into us, so I hustled us down a side street, where we stopped and watched them run right by. I never get tired of seeing something truly wild living right among us. This is the first time I’ve seen young ones
( photo from the internet )
Our neighborhood is all desert landscape with no fences between houses and wildlife is free to move between the houses.
So we were walking down the street and about 50 yards in front of us we see this herd emerge from between two houses and they are running straight for us. Something had spooked them. Their eyesight is poor and they couldn’t see us. Our dog started growling at them, and I’m thinking oh crap! The presence of young ones made them a lot more unpredictable and I didn’t want them running right into us, so I hustled us down a side street, where we stopped and watched them run right by. I never get tired of seeing something truly wild living right among us. This is the first time I’ve seen young ones