It was really sad but everyone around here had tried to explain to them that you don’t feed wild animals. We had even told them they would eat dogs and cats and such. They had never lived in the country and didn’t believe any of us.
They were only here two years, it just wasn’t like they thought it would be.
My brother’s father in law lives in the country. He told me that he got a call once from the township manager griping about city people moving to the country. This lady called him at 4am and said that he needed to get someone to fix the city water.
He asked where she lived and then told her that no one on the township has city water, it’s all on wells.
He then asked if she had any idea what the whirring sound was whenever she turned on the water. Oh yea, that’s the wellpump.
I’ve got another friend who lives on about 5 acres. He came to church one Sunday after a 4-5 day regional power outage all happy because he could finally flush the toilet. I said “You have a pond!” He had no idea that his problem would be solved with a 5 gallon bucket since toilets work on gravity. Oh well.