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Old 11-05-2003, 03:56 AM
David Hare-Scott
 
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Default Animal grasscutter?


"Andrew G" wrote in message
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"Cynthia" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if there are any native animals which one can

attract
into
the graden which eat grass only - and not the other plants in the

garden.

A goat would be good, but it too would do damage elsewhere.


A goat would not be good in any way at all.

I have lived with goats and the "cute" and "corny" stories about goats
eating just about anything (as another poster said including underpants)
are absolutely true!

Goats have substantially contributed to severe environmental degradation
in many parts of the world because they eat shrubs, herbs, vegetables
and grasses down to bare earth and kill trees by eating the lower
branches and bark.

The chances are a goat would eat everything you wanted to keep and leave
the grass alone just to be cantankerous and that is just the females -
billygoats you really don't want to know or go near at all.

David