Well, the hobnailed boots usually aren't noticable except when they're coming home from their night's work (usually around daybreak -- 4:30, 5-ish) -- that's when they also like to yell greetings to their friends and loudly share stories about the night's hunting.

I used to love to watch them coming home in the morning -- the bedroom window is just behind my brass headboard and their front door used to be just above the window. We've since closed off that opening, so they get in from the back side of the house and live above the guest room. Uh, I warn my guests. (And it's not the strangest thing about this house.)

Linn