LL-L "Animals" 2003.01.31 (02) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Animals" 2003.01.30 (10) [E]

Sandy wrote:

>Sometimes when I look out of the window around ten or eleven
>on a Thursday night I see a fox coming down from the hill and
>walking along the pavement very purposefully to scavenge from
>the rubbish bags that the villagers put out for collection on
>Friday mornings. It clearly knows the village quite well,
>because it ignores the household rubbish and makes directly
>for the center of the village where all restaurant and hotel
>bags are. This always makes me wonder: how does it know it's
>Thursday?

I guess it's because Thursday nights smell different for them: it's
the night that smells like restaurant waste bags.
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