I live amongst a menagerie of animals.

Have you taken a look around you lately to see that you are as well?

Of course, there are the pets - they are obvious. I have four cats sharing the house with me. Equally obvious are the birds. I commonly see Grackles, Doves, Robins, Mocking Birds, Sparrows, and the occasional Heron migrating in the spring and autumn.

Then, of course, you have things like all the winged insects and the spiders, which feed off them (also common in the diet of the birds). I had my own Charlotte whom had set up shop around the light bulb/garage door motor. I had to ask her to leave with a broom because her web was making the existence of flying insects way too obvious for my liking.

I have a plethora of lizards living in the greenery that livens up my back porch and they are enjoyable to watch. The males will often bob their heads and inflate a sac in their throats to attract the attention of females – as if having swallowed a pink balloon holds some sort of appeal in their circles. I even had the pleasure of watching a territorial dispute between two males whom would bite at the snout of their opponent in a show of dominance.

Less often, but most amusing is watching frogs come out in the summer evenings that I run the sprinklers, whom appear from who knows where and jump around having a good time in the water.

On rare occasions, you get a surprise, like discovering that there is a snake lurking around sharing your living space, or, as I recently did, you discover a turtle trundling along through your yard.

What do you have living with you?