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I visited my brother in upstate NY in '98 and '01....75 miles from NYC....where I grew up. It was once dairy and farmland. Forests, swamps and gravel flats and pastures where once I was paid by farmers to keep the varmints down.

When I was there, I saw fox, chucks and raccoons ( who were particularly pesky since they developed a taste for dog food) in the backyard. Deer were there in the early morning and I was told coyotes had moved into the neighborhood too.

I suppose some of the folks that bought up the land to create suburbia think they're cute but rabies shots have taken a dramatic up tick. House cats disappear and backyard gardens have become impossible to keep.

Martha Steward Living is their ideal and they're in a losing battle with nature's reality.