Deer Fencing

[IndianaPaul]

Another idea, though it did make me chuckle when a good friend down the road shared with me.

His wife purchased several of the door/porch ornaments that play music/talk when you walk by them at Walmart on Clearance 2 years ago (apparently they have a motion sensor in them). She tied them to stakes about 2.5 - 3 foot off the ground. When the deer walk past, they begin playing and the deer take off. He said once she figured out the range of the sensor it only took her about 30 minutes to set it all up.

Paul

 

[mdbarb]

We used to have our garbage can outside with a bungee cord holding it closed tightly. One day as I approached the can it began moving!
I considered:
A. The garbage can is actually alive and attempting to escape!
B. I should start drinking gin from smaller containers.
C. Those hallucinations continue long after the sixties.
D. All of the above
Obviously the racoon got in but couldn't get out. I now store the can in the garage and get strange looks from friends when they see me sneaking up sideways on the garbage can.

 

[Timd]

We had a real bad ice storm 5 or 6 years ago and everybody
in Northern New England lost power for weeks. The icicles
off the roof ran all the way to the ground. When they finally
melted and fell they ripped the eaves trim right off the house.
I was too busy running fireplaces 7x24 to worry about
carpentry.

Meanwhile a family of racoons moved into our house through
the trim opening and took up residence between the 1st floor
ceiling and second floor floorboards. We had no clue until
we heard these scuttling noises late at night. I looked out
to investigate and saw mother racoon scurrying across the
porch roof. We tried everything to get them out but it took
about a month. I finally replaced all the trim except one
tiny piece. I guess the carpentry noise spooked them out
and I closed the rest up after we hadn't heard anything
for a few days.

Timd