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Chris Hogg writes:
| My mother has a very neat and tidy garden of which she is justifiably
| proud (she is 87 and suffers quite badly from arthritis). But from
| time to time, especially in dry weather it seems, her lawn gets dug up
| by what she says are badgers. It's either badgers or foxes. Whichever,
| during the night her lawn gets covered in small holes, like golfer's
| divots, where some animal has presumably been digging for worms. The
| neighbours suffer the same problem.
|
| Is there a anything she can scatter to deter them? The garden is well
| fenced and there's no obvious sign of where they come in, although
| they may come over the front wall, about 4ft high. Recently she's
| tried painting bits of wood and odd lumps of concrete with (proper)
| creosote and leaving them around the garden in the hope that the smell
| would deter whatever it is, but to no avail.

Badgers would get in through or under the fence, and you couldn't miss
where they did it! Far more likely to be foxes or perhaps squirrels.
They do that to me, searching for the walnuts they buried.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.