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Wild Turkeys and Cat Calls
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Me and My Cat
By Delia Owens
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~Jim Rohn
After studying wildlife in the hot, harsh African bush for twenty-three years, my husband Mark and I were sun-weary and snow-starved. We decided that it was finally time to trade our tattered desert tent for something more substantial and less sandy. So we relocated to a small, wild valley in northern Idaho.
Surrounded by mountains and forests, dotted with glacial lakes and lined with rocky streams, this land was the opposite of our African home, but we welcomed the change. Rather than observe lions, elephants and giraffes, we watched moose, white-tailed deer and black bears crisscross our meadows. But of all these animals, we became especially attached to the wild turkeys.
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