Racoons in the White House.

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Angela,
We live in Baker City Oregon. My father-in-law was trying to start some new trees and had a problem with the deer eating them. I was traveling a lot then and collected Hotel soaps for him. He hung a few of them in each tree and it seem to keep the deer away.

Have fun
Pellinore

Wow, not even deer want to clean themselves with hotel soap! Go figure. :p

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Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat.

Guaranteed bunnies. All little nibble marks and the bunnies out-number everything else in the neighborhood. I really need to take my friend up on his offer of the live-trap. Seems he belongs to a gun club that has a bunny hunt every spring, so the members catch local bunnies and release them on the gun-clubs grounds for each spring.

There's nary a night I pull into the drive after dark where we count less than 4 bunnies in the headlights. All different sizes as well, so they aren't even the same 4 bunnies each time.

We had bunnies until a hawk discovered that we had bunnies. Now we occasionally have a hawk, and we have many fewer bunnies in evidence.

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Angela has her critters,
This one of mine is a bit bigger.

Yes he wandered into my backyard. No I don't live next to the forest it is at least two miles of all suburb before there are any wild lands. I guess he liked the rose bush but he checked out the vegetable garden too. I believe it is a California Mule Deer.

It is definitely a mule deer.

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I've tried to landscape my front yard with plants deer allegedly do not like. Problem is, the deer didn't read the same gardening book I read...

My mother discovered that ravens like moth balls. Supposedly, deer don't like the smell, however, ravens like the shiny things...

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I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve...

Do remember a dog of mine anno dazumal...

I didn't expect that phrase to be used in Finland! ("Dazumal" is definitely German :-)

I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve...

The local ravens enjoyed teasing the dog. There would be a group of ravens spread out through several trees. One would dive at the dog and then glide just out of reach as the dog gave chase. Just before it reached its target tree another raven would take off and do the same thing. This lasted until the dog was exhausted.

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Many years ago my wife had an office overlooking an inflated tennis bubble on Vancouver Island. When the bubble was wet from a recent rain or heavy dew, the ravens would land on top, then take turns sliding down the wet plastic standing up, with their wings outstretched. They could usually get to an almost vertical slope before flying away. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing here, but it looked like a game of dare to me.

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Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ah yes, Skunk warfare, Witnessed after the fact by impartial personnel and out of sight of the belligerents. ;)

When I was at a summer camp a long time ago, one of the dogs rolled a skunk into the head councilors sleeping bag...

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Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ah yes, Skunk warfare, Witnessed after the fact by impartial personnel and out of sight of the belligerents. ;)

When I was at a summer camp a long time ago, one of the dogs rolled a skunk into the head councilors sleeping bag...

Suuuuure. Blame it on the dog. I bet "the dog" farted a lot too. :-)

Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ah yes, Skunk warfare, Witnessed after the fact by impartial personnel and out of sight of the belligerents. ;)

When I was at a summer camp a long time ago, one of the dogs rolled a skunk into the head councilors sleeping bag...

Suuuuure. Blame it on the dog. I bet "the dog" farted a lot too. :-)

The dog slept outside, so that would not have been an issue.

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Outside of our neighborhood (8 houses away), there seems to be a "Skunk Crossing".

2 skunks got hit this weekend and the whole neighborhood just REEKS...it's horrible.

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Outside of our neighborhood (8 houses away), there seems to be a "Skunk Crossing".

2 skunks got hit this weekend and the whole neighborhood just REEKS...it's horrible.

Have you thought about investing in a good gas mask?

I remember driving down a country road and wondering about a stench. About 2 miles down the road, we came across the dead skunk.

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Wednesday and Mask are becoming quite tame. See how close we can get now to take their pictures.

A few years ago I had a field near Wichita, Kansas, where I raised peonies. One day I went to work on the peonies, parking my truck on a terrace. As I worked, I noticed a couple of dogs courseing in another part of the field. Then the biggest skunk {at least it seemed that way} I had ever seen ambled into view along the terrace. Needless to say I froze. When it reached about three feet away, I must made some kind of movement. It whipped into position, with its tail raised, and looking over its shoulder. The tableau was frozen for what seemed like forever. I was hopeing those dogs would stay wher they were. I guess it decided I was part of the landscape, because it resumed its normal position and started toward the truck. Again I must have made some slight movement, because instant replay, and I was stareing down the barrel again. It must have decided I was nothing or that it had scared me to death, because went back to normal position and walked off behind the truck. I was almost sick from lack of breathing. I decided I had done enough with the peonies, got in the truck and went home.
Ed

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Do not live your life for anyone else. Do not allow anyone to live their lives for you. Ayn Rand

. . . he's 'still' lookin' for a home ;))

[like 'is shelter ?]

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I think he's trying to get himself shipped to my house! He knows where the good eats are...