My mom and dad's back yard borders on a large county park and they always have tons of deer visit. My mom also doesn't mind that they eat some of her flowers and my dad puts out corn for them. They're so used to him that he can pretty much walk right up to them.JennyB wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:25amI love our deer. They eat our hostas every year, but I love that we are providing them food.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:23amThat is really sad. We had a lot of deer around my neighborhood, but I have not seen one so clearly unwell.
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I live on the other side of our village from my mom and dad's, but we also have a large tract of woods by our house. Lots of wildlife: deer, coyotoes, foxes, raccoons, opposums, owls.JennyB wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:25amI love our deer. They eat our hostas every year, but I love that we are providing them food.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:23amThat is really sad. We had a lot of deer around my neighborhood, but I have not seen one so clearly unwell.
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We have a lot of those animals as well. I'm a little scared of the coyotes, especially when it concerns our dog, but otherwise love them.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 11:10amI live on the other side of our village from my mom and dad's, but we also have a large tract of woods by our house. Lots of wildlife: deer, coyotoes, foxes, raccoons, opposums, owls.JennyB wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:25amI love our deer. They eat our hostas every year, but I love that we are providing them food.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 10:23amThat is really sad. We had a lot of deer around my neighborhood, but I have not seen one so clearly unwell.
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Very sad indeed, not to sound calloused, but I'm glad it's no longer suffering.
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Wholeheartedly agree.
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Glad to hear!
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I went out to check the mail after dark a couple nights ago and saw a critter a couple hundred feet away, moving along the far sidewalk around the corner. At first glance I thought it was our neighborhood gato. There is a big, fat, light-orange cat that prowls around at night and I’ll often see him lounging in the middle of the street under the streetlights at 2am. But the way this thing moved along I quickly realized it must be a coyote or fox. Then it crossed over and came down my street and went past me about 50 feet away, trotting right along the far side of the street and looking like it was on important business. It didn’t see me standing there in the dark, so when it was right across the street from me I made a low coughing sound to get its attention. It turned its head toward me and froze for a few seconds, then bolted away across the neighbor’s lawn on the other side of the street. In the dark it was tough to tell, but it had a kind of reddish cream color and bushy tail as long as its body. With its low stature and profile I’m pretty sure it was a red fox. Not uncommon around here but pretty rare to actually see them.
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I put a few raised garden beds in my backyard several years ago and kept finding half eaten vegetables. So I bought one of those Havahart live traps and set it up. Caught a good variety of critters, each of which was released in the woods at the local park. I got a lot of groundhogs especially. This one probably had about 5 pounds of my green beans in his gut. It was a real cat and mouse game with these guys. I'd notice them looking at me from the neighbor's yard, with one eye pressed to the crack in the fence.
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Caught a bunch of these guys too:
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Rats were the worst. There’s something primally horrifying about the squealing sound they make.
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I feel your pain, we have a plum tree, apple tree & a single cherry tomato plant, the f'ing rats love the tomatoes. I actually put an sheet metal band around the plum tree earlier this week hoping to keep them out of the fruit when it ripens.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 4:45pmRats were the worst. There’s something primally horrifying about the squealing sound they make.
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I’d love to have an apple tree, or plum or pear. My backyard is a bit small though (30x45 feet), with about a third of the space devoted to the garden, and I just put in 4 pawpaw trees 3 years ago. They’ve only fruited once so far, and I just went out yesterday to hand-pollinate them. Nothing like walking around the yard and gathering some fresh produce. Unfortunately, it really draws the animals in. Though I’ve tried everything to keep them out, it’s always a losing battle. It would be fine if they just ate one thing at a time and finished it, but they always take a single bite out of a tomato, for example, and move on to the next one. So uncivilized.Sparky wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:02pmI feel your pain, we have a plum tree, apple tree & a single cherry tomato plant, the f'ing rats love the tomatoes. I actually put an sheet metal band around the plum tree earlier this week hoping to keep them out of the fruit when it ripens.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 4:45pmRats were the worst. There’s something primally horrifying about the squealing sound they make.
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Our fruit trees are dwarf, in fact the apple is in a large pot on our patio.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:33pmI’d love to have an apple tree, or plum or pear. My backyard is a bit small though (30x45 feet), with about a third of the space devoted to the garden, and I just put in 4 pawpaw trees 3 years ago. They’ve only fruited once so far, and I just went out yesterday to hand-pollinate them. Nothing like walking around the yard and gathering some fresh produce. Unfortunately, it really draws the animals in. Though I’ve tried everything to keep them out, it’s always a losing battle. It would be fine if they just ate one thing at a time and finished it, but they always take a single bite out of a tomato, for example, and move on to the next one. So uncivilized.Sparky wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:02pmI feel your pain, we have a plum tree, apple tree & a single cherry tomato plant, the f'ing rats love the tomatoes. I actually put an sheet metal band around the plum tree earlier this week hoping to keep them out of the fruit when it ripens.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 4:45pmRats were the worst. There’s something primally horrifying about the squealing sound they make.
We went years with 2-3 tomato plants, no rat problems, but 2 years ago they got a taste for them and it's been downhill since.
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Dwarf fruit trees sound like a good idea. I have some patio space. I wonder if they’d survive Buffalo winters in a pot or if I’d have to bring them inside. I’ll have to look into it.Sparky wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:36pmOur fruit trees are dwarf, in fact the apple is in a large pot on our patio.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:33pmI’d love to have an apple tree, or plum or pear. My backyard is a bit small though (30x45 feet), with about a third of the space devoted to the garden, and I just put in 4 pawpaw trees 3 years ago. They’ve only fruited once so far, and I just went out yesterday to hand-pollinate them. Nothing like walking around the yard and gathering some fresh produce. Unfortunately, it really draws the animals in. Though I’ve tried everything to keep them out, it’s always a losing battle. It would be fine if they just ate one thing at a time and finished it, but they always take a single bite out of a tomato, for example, and move on to the next one. So uncivilized.Sparky wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 5:02pmI feel your pain, we have a plum tree, apple tree & a single cherry tomato plant, the f'ing rats love the tomatoes. I actually put an sheet metal band around the plum tree earlier this week hoping to keep them out of the fruit when it ripens.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑13 May 2021, 4:45pmRats were the worst. There’s something primally horrifying about the squealing sound they make.
We went years with 2-3 tomato plants, no rat problems, but 2 years ago they got a taste for them and it's been downhill since.
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