Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

["Betty Goetz" <haika@drizzle.com>]

I know I know....I've been through similar experiences with my chickens
and raccoons (sigh). I put heavy metal dog crate wire floor pieces over my
smaller mini-ponds (because my dogs EAT waterlilies....grump), but I'm
thinking the stock ponds are too deep/high. Maybe I'm naive (weak
grin).....I've heard of swimming raccoons but not ones that dive down
roughly 4'.

Betty Goetz - PONDering the raccoon issue (get it????)

>     I try to take every precaution against racoon assaults, but I just
> lost one 10 inch
> koi yesterday. I was keeping him in a large tub, with a lid, because he
> seemed skinnier
> than the rest and I left the lid off so I could watch and see if he was
> eating his
> food. I forgot to put it back on before I went to bed and the next day he
> was in pieces
> on the lawn.
>      It guess it takes something like that to remind me to not take
> chances when it
> comes to raccoons.
>
> Steev

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