On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 6:23:39 PM UTC-4, T wrote:
On 2020-05-18 18:30, songbird wrote:
T wrote:
On 2020-05-17 04:31, RosemontCrest wrote:
3) Deer. It is common for deer to chomp the tops off flowers, taste
them,Â*thenÂ*discardÂ*themÂ*ifÂ*notÂ*tastyÂ*enough .Â*DeerÂ*haveÂ*noÂ*fearÂ*ofÂ*cats.

One of my customers uses a radio controlled toy car to
chase deer. Deer don't fear yip dogs either.

with a night scope and a flash bang of some kind
that could be fun. mini-tank with big bore spark
shooting noise maker.

in the end though a fence would be cheaper and
nice to keep the ticks away. we've already found
two deer ticks this year (not by them biting us)
in the house brought in on clothes after working
in areas where they come through the yard. i
wrap the lil buggers in a bit of toilet paper
and then chop them with scissors to make sure
they are dead. they're very hard to kill.

hunting them in the fall would be good if i
could bring myself to do it, but i'm not that
hungry yet.


songbird


Deer will jump of a 12 foot fence. The trick is
to make sure they can see what in on the other
side and they won't attempt it

We were having problems with critters invading the garden so we bought a motion activated device that hooks up to the hose and noisily squirts a stream of water when activated. It can be adjusted for range of squirting, from straight ahead to over 180 degrees and set for night, day, or both. Very sensitive; we both got squirted when coming too close to the garden after dark.

Paul