Are you prepared? Not from fear but using wise knowledge? We all prepare at different levels. We are a few months away from winter. Do you have winter clothes? That is being prepare. Things are coming. The question becomes are you ready to deal with it, not from fear but from a mindset that says Winter Is Coming.
Make friends with hounds you get to smell like the hound. Then you attract bugs that like the smell as smell equals food. Interesting, a drop chop pick up.