Maxine, you should always be wary of feeding wild animals. Here in Florida we have an environmental uproar going on at the moment over the practice of tourist boats feeding sharks. Apparently the sharks get all uppity when they encounter a human who doesn't feed them titbits.

And I have a couple of possums living in my orchard to whom I have fed potato peelings for over two years. Just realised the little bastards are nibbling at my avocados, so I guess I might borrow a couple of foxhounds ......

Murray