No, but a couple of years ago, early July 5th I saw a beautiful Cougar recently road-killed near a county park along I90 -- I've always believed that it was probably stunned by/running from fireworks.

I also had many fireworks in my area--I feared for the wooded nature park behind my house--and my poor dog thought we were being invaded--she finally settled down about 2 AM. Yawn...

Christine Southwick
N Seattle/Shoreline

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Guy McWethy wrote:

> Tweets,
> on the fireworks thread, did anyone else have Mountain
> Beaver walking around last night, looking kinda
> bewildered by all the ruckus?
> I was standing on the street watching our neighbors
> trying to torch the place, when a mountain beaver came
> out of the grass and started wondering around in the
> middle of the intersection. Closest I've seen one of
> these critters. It actually started to approach us at
> one point! I made a noise and it froze and hunkered
> down, rather ineffectively seeing as how it was on
> asphalt ;)
> I did not even know there were any in my neighborhood!
> And I think I saw some Mtn Beaver bodies on the road
> on the drive in this morning, which I do not recall
> seeing before. (But I may have been sensitized by the
> ecounter last night, and they easily could have been
> rats as well ;)
> Anyone else see any signs that the Mtn Beavers were
> overly confused or impacted by last nights
> festivities?
> Guy
>
> Guy McWethy
> Renton, WA
> mailto: lguy_mcw at yahoo.com
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