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Re: [GSAS-Member] raccoon stories



Nice story, thanks for sharing. But are you sure raccoons are eating 
your plants and not deer? I know raccoons are omnivorous but I've never 
seen them eat water plants.

Clay A.

On Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at 12:37  AM, 
gsas-member-request@thekrib.com wrote:

> My "Ponds" are really big Jardinieres (sp?) about 2 feet in diameter
> and 2 feet high straight sides....  The fish are safe but the plants
> get pulled up and eaten the minute they start looking nice. The last
> time they also chewed up a bog plant (fly trap) on my porch that had
> gotten particularly nice looking.
>
> Sigh....
>
> I did, when I was much younger, sleep down in the corn patch with my
> german shepard dog and 22 rifle.... A couple times I had to wade in a
> rescue the dog however when he would chase the raccoons down to the
> beach and then they would dive in to the water - He would go after
> them. Raccoons are clever, all they need to do is climb up on a big
> dogs head when he is swimming and they drown it.

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