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"David Hill" wrote
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"........ but my 2 year old Jack Russell likes chewing the
barks and they
die. .........."

You don't get this sort of problem with a cat.........

Oh yes? Come and have a look at what the neighbours' cats
have done to the stem of my .Metasequoia glyptostroboides.

Are you quite sure? The trunk of mg is naturally deeply fissured,
rough and fibrous, looking very much as if something has been
sharpening claws there.

Janet.