"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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from Gary Woods contains these words:

Janet Baraclough wrote:

For you to
have actually had some, in the UK, is roughly the equivalent of an
urgler reporting irrefutable evidence of fairies at the bottom of their
garden. Instant fame! :-)

And as you doubtless know, for us lurking Murkens, "Coons" are certainly
NOT a mythical creature, though I wish they were. Also, a major
reservoir
of rabies in the wild.

We don't have rabies in the UK either.

We don't have hedgehogs though, more's the pity.

Maybe we could send you some..like we gave rabbits to Australia :-)

I've refrained at guessing what fauna might be living in that hole.
Here
it would almost certainly be a woodchuck, known elsewhere as marmot, but
I
didn't see a mention, so probably not resident there unless escaped.

Nah, we don't have those either. My guess is, too small to be a
badger, too smelly to be rabbits; could be a feral ferret or young fox
setting up home in an enlarged rabbit hole.

[snip]

Anne was going to dig it out a few days ago, and we have not heard from her
since. Can we be sure she survived the exercise?

Franz