On Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:19:25 PM UTC-4, Davej wrote:
Found a gray squirrel next to my garden this morning. I have an ordinary electric fence around my garden to keep the deer out. Apparently a deer broke the wire sometime last night and this morning a poor squirrel got into the tangle of wire and met a sorry end. This is the first time I have found anything dead near the fence since I began using it five years ago when the local deer population began to explode. The electric wire is normally suspended as two strands four and five feet off the ground.

I had the same thing happen to a rabbit last year but the fence hadn't broken. Guess he just jumped where he shouldn't have. My wires started at 2 feet. Changed that this year. There is just one wire at 4 feet or so and that not only has worked for the deer it is a hell of a lot easier to get in to weed.
MJ