So on Saturday night/Sunday morning at approximately 3 am OC (one of our dogs just in case you didn't know) barks. He has a loud bark anyway, but at 3 am when you are trying to sleep, it seems even louder. James yells at him to "Shut UP!!!" possibly other words were also in that mix :) I am pretty sure I yelled too, but probably without any added expletives.
Usually OC will settle down pretty quickly, but he was going nuts! Then we listen and you could hear a screaming animal sound. James jumps up and runs into the living room to look out the window, he leans on the chair which starts to recline and slams himself into the window. So I am not only hearing this crazy animal scream but also a yell from my husband trying to injure himself.
So I get out of bed and we look out the living room window and see out neighbor out there with a flashlight looking for something, and then he heads back inside. We opened the window and this animal scream is pretty loud and slightly terrifying. It eventually stops and James starts looking something up on his computer.
He plays something like this:
Oh My Gosh!!!!
Do we seriously have a mountain lion in our neighborhood?!?!?!?! I thought the sound seemed bad, but had not even considered that it might be a mountain lion! Of course our crazy dog decides that since he is up and we are up and he heard something outside that he should also be outside. Not gonna happen tonight!! Thankfully since the sound stopped, he wasn't quite so insistent on being let out.
We went back to bed and eventually fell asleep. OC passed out long before either James or I and I am not sure Baxter even woke up throughout the whole ordeal!
In the morning I looked out the windows just to make sure there were not any large cats lurking in our yard or trees before I let the dogs out.
We we fed the animals and headed out for church. On the way, James called his dad; both to wish him a Happy Father's Day and to tell him of our EARLY morning adventure. He left a message.
Just as we got to our pastor's home, Clyde calls James back so we wait outside while they talked.
James went through the crazy story.
Clyde (my wonderful Father-in-law) informs him that it probably was a fox, as they sound very similar but louder.
So we are feeling quite a bit better by this time. I know there are foxes around, but never would have thought they would sound like a mountain lion.
When we got home, our neighbor was just pulling up as well, so we head over to their house to see what they know.
She states a similar story of their dogs going crazy and her and her husband went outside with the flashlight. Sure enough, he found a fox in the middle of our cul-de-sac screaming its head off!
Apparently he chased the fox off and it went down the road and then came back, so he chased it off again and it stayed away.
Here's a clip of a fox screaming for your enjoyment. :) Not pleasant anyway, but even worse in the middle of the night:
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3 comments:
I know what you mean! We've had several scares from foxes--sometimes they sound like horrible banshees and other times they sound like screaming babies. Always scary!
That is horrible! That would scare the jeebies out of me!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have a noise out here that sounds like something screaming. We can't figure out what it is. The first night I heard it I thought it was some lady screaming (of course Ed wasn't home). I was gonna call 9-1-1 and glad I decided against it because it is some animal. Probably would have made a fool out of myself trying to be the good-concerned person.
Funny....I see James is taking after his father (the banging into the window part). The look it up on the internet part is pure Clyde.
Now Clyde is starting to get up and go looking for the barking dog in our neighborhood.
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