Okay, hello, that kitty would have freaked me out too. Biggest thing I've seen lurking undomesticated was a raccoon, but it was a filthy huge one.

Largest feral animal I've seen in a residential area was a deer in the Philadalphia suburbs. Runner-up (jumper-up?) is the kangaroo that turned up to the sale of my house in Melbourne before moving to Philly.

Well, hi you. :)

The biggest animal I've seen in the wild is a humpback whale. If any of you have seen a blue whale, I yield my claim to the biggest creature yet. For land critters, it was the deer I saw in Muir Woods, easily one of my favorite places on earth.

We would often get deer on our high school campus, but that was a small town surrounded by farms and woods.

eta to fix spelling of "deer." Guess who's tired?

There are turkeys in my neighborhood right now -- I saw a couple by the river, but apparently the other day one was just walking down the street by the fancy tea place.

I often see deer at work during the winter. We're right up against the mountains, and the deer like to wander our campus and nibble the bushes and hopefully avoid the cars. When I work the real late/real early hours on the weekends, I keep close watch out, because they'll sometimes be standing in the parking lot acting like, well, deer in headlights.

Welcome to the board, clio! No one has been accused of ax-murdering!

I lived in the mountains. I've had raccoons stick their fingers through holes in my bedroom screen, fingers licked clean by the raccoons, skunks under the house, bears, elk, mountain lions wandering through the yard... Cattle too! In town in NM, mainly coyotes and fox.

Here in B'more, I've seen a bear out in the 'burbs and foxes trotting down my street.

The deer on the JPL campus crack me up. They're all ' yeah, rocket science, whatever, scrub oak! NOM.'

I saw a wolf trotting across the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. I even made eye contact briefly. That was a large, impressive, and highly out of place animal.

I blame suburbia. (And initially I had capslock on by accident, but maybe I'm not quite that emphatic about it.)

No one has been accused of ax-murdering!

You know, yet.

Seeing bears in Yellowstone was an eye-opener, especially since they weren't behind a fence or a plexiglass wall. Stephen got to see a moose, too, and he was surprised at just how huge and intimidating it was.