Yes they are native here. Funny your screen name. We have a lot of people from LA that own or visit here around us, a very high Armenian population (it is said it is very similar to their "Homeland" I'm told). We here all the time "I found a mouse poop, so dirty ... what do I do." They act as if 1, yes 1 little mouse poop has just destroyed the cleanliness of their home. There are even people that have come to visit and encountered this type of thing and REFUSE to come EVER again no matter what you tell them or do. The Pack Rat is a perfect example of "Why not to use" Rodenticides (poison) due to their behavior. They do not consume the poison but instead store "pack" it somewhere for later or never to be used. Now you have an animal moving poison untold distances (could be acres) to be consumed by something else, then something else since the first one died, and so on and so on. This is how your D Con can end up killing an animal a mile or more from your kitchen (where you saw a mouse poop).
The ravens here are thick. You will hear a jet engine noise due to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, look up and almost every time see a raven. It's a cool joke to play on new visitors ..Look. I do not know if it's a normal activity but these birds (pterodactyls) are fierce predators afraid of very little.
Yes they are all really cute in the pics. It's nice when people help them have habitat.
