A backyard is a compound found at the back of a house, it is common in Western world suburban. People living in cold-weather leave the land surrounding their houses and plant vegetables during the summers and allow sunlight to reach the house windows during winters. When people build and leave spaces behind the houses as yards, there are possibilities of keeping some domestic animals and at times, wild creators may enter the compound looking for food and shelter. Backyard critters are the living creatures that are either wild or domestic and are found around the yard compound around the house.
In Western countries where winter is experienced regularly, there is the need to have a backyard, which will allow sunlight to reach the house and avoid freezing and at times, some vegetables can be planted. Those who do not plant vegetables may opt to keep domestic animals such as a cow or horse. Backyards are likely to have vegetation that is attractive to wild creatures. Feisty foxes are examples of critters likely to be found in the backyard since they are attracted by garbage, pet food, and other food resources and are not destructive to the big pets, only the small ones. Stealthy Raccoon can be in the neighborhoods and are well equipped with techniques for stealing cat food. In wooded backyards, there is the possibility of seeing dainty deer, which is attracted to yards that have tulips. In the U.S and Canada, moose is a common animal in the backyards and is attracted by the food remains and the vegetables planted around the yards because the other areas are dominated by ice. Finally, opossums are found in the U.S backyards and eat cat food for pets, but they do not dig the yard or tip over the garbage cans.
Most of the backyard critters that are wild are known for their destructive nature and people are always looking for ways to keep them away, but the success rates are low. Some critters such as squirrels are disturbing when they drop on the roofs. The reasons some of the critters come to the backyards is because when the temperatures drop, they come to the backyards looking for high-protein foods such as grub worms (Latham and Scully). Some other animals come to the yards during the winter looking for warm places to set up nests to hold their babies.
Backyard critters can be termed to be useful while in other terms they can be destructive. The owner of the house should know the animals that access his or her compound and come up with different ways to preserve or keep the animals away.
Work Cited
Latham, L. G., and E. P. Scully. "Critters! A Realistic Simulation for Teaching Evolutionary Biology". The American Biology Teacher 70.1 (2008): 30-33. Web.
