In article , "Smitty"
wrote:

I have a live cage. Then they go to the woods far away. Skunks are the worst.
This year I've caught over 30 opossums. Five raccons. Three skunks. I have to
call the critter guy for the Skunks. Don't know what he does with them. I
don't ask. I have had my cat tails looking just like your Iris. You have to
do something, or the whole family shows up, and they "will" destroy
everything. Good luck!

"k" wrote in message
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Woke up this morning to this
http://tinyurl.com/2wjjlt

This is what the island normally looks like
http://tinyurl.com/39e6n3

The labradors shot out the door and went on a sniff
frenzy. To me, the damage and the sniff frenzy, looks
to be raccoon(s). The girls treed three of them this
winter and they never go on a sniff frenzy when the
heron visits.

I do not plan to take any defensive action. Just think it's
interesting to see the interaction of nature in the suburban
backyard.

I'll post the predator hints on another thread for those folks who can
use them. Jan and I did a bit of revising on them.

k :-)

Sorry folks, there's going to be balance of nature evening things out
any time you try to alter it.

Hate the thought that things need to be killed (or "removed") for the
sake of our artificially created environments, but I vastly prefer the
idea of creating a more harmonious (or perhaps symbiotic) environment
for all.

Would you position a bird feeder down where the cats can get them-
knowing they have cats in the yard?

Many ponders inadvertently do the same thing.

Cats come in my yard, so the bird feeders are up high and food is
trapped on lower (but elevated) tiers where birds can escape easily. I
designed it that way.
Cats stay away from pond ( We had cats, so I knew how they were), and
since no predators otherwise, I did not need to design anything else
into pond to keep fish and plants happy.'

If I lived a few miles North (in Ojai) I'd have grates over the pond to
keep raccoons/herons out. Wouldn't have thought twice about doing that.

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