I live in a city of around 500K. The raccoons around here love dry cat food and come to my back porch to get the stuff I leave out for the cats. Skunks love catfood too. But neither species are turning into pets, if I show my face they take off running. I often see “city deer” when I go out for walks in residential neighborhoods. A half dozen loitering on someone’s front lawn. The occasional lone buck chowing down on someone’s flower plantings. They’re tolerant of people and cars but very wary - definitely not becoming pets. I think we’ll see a lot more of the deer in coming months because a lot of their city-adjacent forest habitat has just burned down.
I live in a city of around 500K. The raccoons around here love dry cat food and come to my back porch to get the stuff I leave out for the cats. Skunks love catfood too. But neither species are turning into pets, if I show my face they take off running. I often see “city deer” when I go out for walks in residential neighborhoods. A half dozen loitering on someone’s front lawn. The occasional lone buck chowing down on someone’s flower plantings. They’re tolerant of people and cars but very wary - definitely not becoming pets. I think we’ll see a lot more of the deer in coming months because a lot of their city-adjacent forest habitat has just burned down.