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   On 7/15/2021 9:23 PM, songbird wrote:   
   > Frank wrote:   
   >> On 7/14/2021 1:20 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:45:13 -0400, songbird    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Boron Elgar wrote:   
   >>>> ...   
   >>>>> I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow   
   >>>>> pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the   
   >>>>> raccoons.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines.  i   
   >>>> often see them climbing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    songbird   
   >>>   
   >>> Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up   
   >>> with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Wife wanted me to block stairs but I told her it was rare to see a   
   >> groundhog climbing them and I know you cannot deter raccoons.  I will   
   >> tell her that another good reason is we may get scratches on the deck   
   >> which is Trex.   
   >   
   >    once in a while they break things trying to get at a wasp or   
   > hornet nest.  just yesterday Mom had to pick up one of her things   
   > that had gotten knocked over and torn apart because it had a   
   > nest in it.   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
   Years ago before we had large garbage cans supplied by the garbage   
   company raccoons would get into the garbage.  Neighbor said one chased   
   her into the house.  Rabies is endemic and people within a mile of our   
   house have been bitten by rabid raccoons.   
      
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