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What animals did the speaker sometimes see near her house?
Skunks, squirrels, deer, and owls
Deer, birds, bears, and raccoons
Chipmunks, squirrels, bears, and owls
Chipmunks, bears, beavers and raccoons
Why did the animals sometimes turn over the garbage cans?
They were looking for food.
They were trying to enter the house.
They were playing.
They used the cans to climb on top of the house.
How did the speaker feed the small animals?
She made special feeders for them.
She put the food on top of the garbage cans.
She had bowls of food on her back porch.
They sat on her lap and ate from her hand.
What is the main purpose of the speaker's talk?
To talk about her love of animals
To talk about her fear of wild animals
To talk about her favorite animals
To talk about the wildlife in her area
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We had property at Huntington Lake in the high Sierra Nevadas, just outside of Fresno California.
It was fun meeting up there with all our relatives and friends.
We would spend a lot of time sitting on the porch watching the animals.
There were, chipmunks and squirrels and owls.
At night time the bears would come around.
But that was only in later years.
In the early years there was a dump way up in the mountains.
And they would go there to find food.
They finally closed down that dump and in drought years, there was not much food around.
So the bears who would be hungry and they would come searching for food.
So naturally they were drawn to our garbage cans.
Hehehe.
We had a special cupboard outside the house that we kept them locked in so that they wouldn't turn them over.
But they would try.
You could hear them scratching on the doors outside.
So I didn't like to go out at night much, hehe.
But we tamed the little chipmunks and they would come up and sit in your lap and eat seeds out of your hand.
And the squirrels and sometimes they would get in the house during the winter and make nests all over and chew up the bedspreads, and that kind of thing but we forgave them.