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Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all
of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:43:06 -0400, Allan Matthews
wrote: Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. Oh, ugh. How awful! Pat -- "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry |
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"Allan Matthews" wrote in message ... Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. And, most people don't think you can get good quality meat out of a vegatable garden. We live in a city, so our biggest pest is squirrels, slower but damage still gets done. Ciao |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:11:13 -0400, Pat Meadows
wrote: "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." Until the food runs out. Then it's every man for himself. Dan |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:51:59 -0400, "len"
wrote: "Allan Matthews" wrote in message .. . Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. And, most people don't think you can get good quality meat out of a vegatable garden. We live in a city, so our biggest pest is squirrels, slower but damage still gets done. Ciao Sorry folks, I do not have bad feelings about shooting the beautiful deer. I have seen hundreds of them starve to death in winter, because of the over population of them. Every years there are many many thousands killed on the highways of New York state. I know many people who felt it was terrible to kill a deer until they had their first deer caused auto accident that cost them thousands of dollars.Every year at least one deer winds up dead in my front yard, due to a car hitting it. Not a pretty sight. |
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Allan Matthews wrote: Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. Deer here (Missouri 5b) are a constant problem and have done hundreds of dollars of damage to our property. We use the Contech scarecrows to keep them away in the summer. They still sneak in now and then, especially if we forget to turn the Scarecrows back on. Last winter, they ate my mature yews so bad that several did not survive the enslaught. Neighbors feed them which is totally stupid. Unafraid of humans, they are in the yards constantly, grazing. Today I counted six near the lower garden, just itching to eat some more of my raspberry bushes. They have even come into our garage. |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:32:57 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote: Neighbors feed them which is totally stupid. Unafraid of humans, they are in the yards constantly, grazing. Today I counted six near the lower garden, just itching to eat some more of my raspberry bushes. They have even come into our garage. Our garden is *inside* our dogs' fenced area. Even though the dogs sleep in the house at night, so far this has kept the deer away. I think it's the dog smell which must permeate the yard. I have my fingers crossed that it continues.... I can remember when I lived in northern NJ and had four dogs (three of them large). The deer would be calmly picking up fallen apples from the ground, about six feet outside a chain link fence - inside of which four dogs were barking hysterically. Brazen deer! So far, the deer here in rural northcentral PA don't seem to be made from the same cloth as the brazen NJ deer. So far. Pat -- "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry |
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Pat Meadows wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:32:57 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote: Neighbors feed them which is totally stupid. Unafraid of humans, they are in the yards constantly, grazing. Today I counted six near the lower garden, just itching to eat some more of my raspberry bushes. They have even come into our garage. Our garden is *inside* our dogs' fenced area. Even though the dogs sleep in the house at night, so far this has kept the deer away. I think it's the dog smell which must permeate the yard. I have my fingers crossed that it continues.... I can remember when I lived in northern NJ and had four dogs (three of them large). The deer would be calmly picking up fallen apples from the ground, about six feet outside a chain link fence - inside of which four dogs were barking hysterically. Brazen deer! So far, the deer here in rural northcentral PA don't seem to be made from the same cloth as the brazen NJ deer. So far. Never fear, they'll catch on to domesticity soon enough. Here, you have to have a minimum 6 foot fence (7 is even more reliable) to keep them out. We could never afford that much fence and it would look like a prison yard at that height. LOL The dogs here chase them constantly to no avail. The neighbor's boxer has made it his mission in life to chase them. When my DH confronted a young buck in the garage, it screamed in surprise (i did not know deer made any sounds actually) and then dashed off, running through the upper garden like a charging rhino. Occasionally, I get out the sling shot and nail one in the hind quarters just hard enough to sting really bad. That also helps for a day or 2 lol. Black bears are reported in Eastern Missouri for the first time in like a century so it will be interesting to see what happens. |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:34:21 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge
wrote: Never fear, they'll catch on to domesticity soon enough. I hope they continue to be wimpy deer! Otherwise, I could leave my dogs out at night in summer. I will if I have to. Black bears are reported in Eastern Missouri for the first time in like a century so it will be interesting to see what happens. We have black bears around here, lots of them. Two summers ago one broke our neighbor's bird feeder. I heard loud cracking noises at 4 am, and the next morning the 1" thick metal pipe supporting the bird feeder had been bent down to the ground, in a U-shape. Nothing but a bear could possibly have done it. Last summer, a woman who lives about 1/2 mile from us left her garage door open (mistake!) while she quickly ran to the store one afternoon. When she returned, there was a black bear in her garage. We *never* leave our garage door open! Pat -- "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry |
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1st deer eating in our garden opens "my" deer season !
Red Tail Hawks love finding them on top of a brush pile ,,, :-) Ed in Ca zone 8-9 :-) "Allan Matthews" wrote in message ... Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. |
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Pat Meadows wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:34:21 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote: Never fear, they'll catch on to domesticity soon enough. I hope they continue to be wimpy deer! Otherwise, I could leave my dogs out at night in summer. I will if I have to. Black bears are reported in Eastern Missouri for the first time in like a century so it will be interesting to see what happens. We have black bears around here, lots of them. Two summers ago one broke our neighbor's bird feeder. I heard loud cracking noises at 4 am, and the next morning the 1" thick metal pipe supporting the bird feeder had been bent down to the ground, in a U-shape. Nothing but a bear could possibly have done it. Last summer, a woman who lives about 1/2 mile from us left her garage door open (mistake!) while she quickly ran to the store one afternoon. When she returned, there was a black bear in her garage. We *never* leave our garage door open! Pat OMG now that'll put some curl in your hair. Hmmmm..... I will definitely keep all that in mind. The latest bear report (that my DH insists I must have imagined LOL) has them only one county away. |
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"ed" wrote: "Allan Matthews" wrote in message ... Returned home today after being away a few days. Deer had eaten all of the beets, all of the swiss chard, half the beans and the tops from the carrots. They left the squash and turnips. Revenge will be mine Nov. 17. (first day of deer season. 1st deer eating in our garden opens "my" deer season ! Red Tail Hawks love finding them on top of a brush pile ,,, :-) Ed in Ca zone 8-9 :-) There are so many here, we'd have to call out the militia |
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We have had such a dry summer that my city has banned putting out garbage
until the morning of p/u day. All garbage that may stink can be stored in the freezer until said day. Fines are levied for infractions of the law! The reason being that the bears have so little to eat ( berries dried up on the bushes or habitats burned out due to immense forest fires) that they are coming into the city limits to pilfer garbage. When they become habituated to eating garbage and lose fear of humans, they are extermely dangerous and have to be killed.What a shame! -- Jayel, Baji-Naji "Pat Meadows" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:34:21 -0500, Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote: Black bears are reported in Eastern Missouri for the first time in like a century so it will be interesting to see what happens. We have black bears around here, lots of them. Two summers ago one broke our neighbor's bird feeder. I heard loud cracking noises at 4 am, and the next morning the 1" thick metal pipe supporting the bird feeder had been bent down to the ground, in a U-shape. Nothing but a bear could possibly have done it. Last summer, a woman who lives about 1/2 mile from us left her garage door open (mistake!) while she quickly ran to the store one afternoon. When she returned, there was a black bear in her garage. We *never* leave our garage door open! Pat -- "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry |
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:40:31 -0400, Pat Meadows
wrote: Last summer, a woman who lives about 1/2 mile from us left her garage door open (mistake!) while she quickly ran to the store one afternoon. When she returned, there was a black bear in her garage. We *never* leave our garage door open! Our neighbor did this once. Their 4-year old daughter called me over the phone, crying hysterically that there was a bear in her garage and nobody else was home. I had to illegaly shoot the bear in the butt with a pellet gun because the cops ALWAYS take well over an hour to respond to bear emergencies (they don't wanna have their names plastered over the papers and get death threats from the PETA freaks). BTW, the bear did move out of the garage very quickly once it got a pellet up the butt. Screaming at it did nothing. Dan nw NJ |
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:00:41 GMT, "J. Lane"
wrote: We have had such a dry summer that my city has banned putting out garbage until the morning of p/u day. All garbage that may stink can be stored in the freezer until said day. Fines are levied for infractions of the law! The reason being that the bears have so little to eat ( berries dried up on the bushes or habitats burned out due to immense forest fires) that they are coming into the city limits to pilfer garbage. When they become habituated to eating garbage and lose fear of humans, they are extermely dangerous and have to be killed.What a shame! Yes, that is a shame. It's a shame we can't equalize the rain/dryness too - you've had drought, we've almost drowned all summer. We've had an exceedingly wet spring and summer: but I live in the Appalachian Mountains in a very rural area, and we have bears around every year - they just normally live here and they are generally not a problem because most people here leave them strictly alone. We have two large dogs who bark so I wouldn't expect ever to see a bear in our yard - the dogs barking would scare it off. Nevertheless, we have a shotgun, just in case... Pat -- "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry |
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