View from the North 40: 'No deaths have been reported' - Yet

I’ve been around animals enough in my life to know that they can sense when humans are vulnerable, and most of them are perfectly willing to capitalize on our weak moments — apparently they see our habit changes during the pandemic as a chance for an uprising.

“No deaths have been reported,” an article on Huffington Post says, but in just one week we’re seeing a lot of activity.

  CBC News reported Tuesday that a moose “made its way” through a Sherbrooke, Quebec, neighborhood and later “fell into (a) pool while searching for a wooded refuge.” It took eight police officers and four wildlife agents almost an hour to get the moose out of the residential pool.

This happened just four days after an alligator was found in an East Lake, Florida, couple’s backyard. Fox 13 News reported that the home owner heard growling from the “lanai” while he was getting his morning coffee and before state fish and wildlife officers arrived, the gator “decided to take a dip in the pool.”

Come on, people, these aren’t innocent forays among humanity by bewildered animals. These are military-grade, spy-games level recon missions. Don’t you see it? The moose and the gator were scouting these upscale neighborhoods, prior to an invasion in areas where people don’t have the means or the basic animal handling knowledge to protect themselves.

The moose pretended to fall in a pool and that it was unable to jump out. Please, that moose has 8-foot long legs and feeds on plants that live in deep lake bottoms. And the gator? “Oh, I’m scared of the nasty coffee drinking humans, so I’ll just instinctively retreat to the nearest body of water for safety.” It’s an 8-foot alligator.

These animals were testing emergency personnel response times and tactics.

Remember last year? Remember how wild animals invaded the streets during lockdowns? Mountain goats in Llandudno, Wales. Jackals in Tel Aviv, Israel. Goats and sheep lining the interstate in Istanbul, Turkey. Wild buffalo taking over the interstate in New Delhi, India. Deer walking the streets in Nara, Japan, and taking over parks made for humans in London. Sea lions leaning their crushing weight on buildings in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wild boar rooting through Ajicco, Corsica. Oh my.

It’s madness. These were the opening salvos for this year’s actions.

And who knows what else went on but was undocumented by humans who were safely in their homes?

Now these animals are coming out when the humans are there. Just watch, this kind of thing is going to escalate until we’re all living like Alaskans and Australians. You don’t know what’s going on there? Let me tell you.

Ravens are stealing food from grocery shoppers in the parking lot at the Costco in Anchorage, Alaska.

“They know what they’re doing; it’s not their first time,” one customer told the Anchorage Daily News after the birds had raided meat from his grocery cart.

The ravens are organizing and they’re hitting our food supplies — and not the cheap stuff either. We’re talking short ribs and steaks, and just like that family barbecue night is over and the rationing begins. Go eat your cereal, kids.

And that’s bad enough, but in Australia massive flooding throughout New South Wales is providing the perfect excuse for spiders, snakes, ants, crickets, skinks and other ground dwellers to invade homes and even rescue vehicles and boats. The snakes are also in the trees to get out of the water, not to, y’know, drop on people’s heads or anything.

“What happens with the floods is all these animals that spend their lives cryptically on the ground can’t live there anymore,” professor Dieter Hochuli of Sydney University told ABC Australia.

You know where they’re going to live? In what a Huffington Post article describes as the “thousands” of flood-evacuated homes, and that right there is how an invasion is accomplished.

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You don’t think this can happen to you? Look at the resources I have already burned looking up “lanai” because of that Florida alligator. It’s just a patio with a roof. You’re welcome, but I’ll never get that time and bandwidth back. And so it begins at http://www.facebook.com/viewfromthenorth40 .