From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/23/2022 5:12 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > fos@sdf.org wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> i chased that marauder around for 20 minutes, phone in hand to take   
   >> photos of course. it ran past the gate at least 10 times before it   
   >> figured out that was its only escape route. fun times gardening.   
   >   
   >    i usually have to hunt them here a few times a year.  they   
   > constantly are trying to eat anything they can get at.  we   
   > don't have the right fence even around the fenced gardens so   
   > they sometimes get in there too, but not as often as they do   
   > the unfenced areas.  when/if i ever get the chance i'm fencing   
   > with better stuff to keep them out of most of the yard.  only   
   > a few hundred more feet will do it and i will be done with   
   > deer, rabbits and groundhogs.  i'm looking forwards to that   
   > because i sure lost a lot of plants this year to deer in a   
   > large garden.  it bites to do all the work of planting,   
   > watering and weeding and then have it all get destroyed.   
      
   How high is your fence? My father ended up with a 10 foot fence around   
   his rural garden. He told me that at a shorter level (8'?) that he   
   watched a deer standing outside the fence hop over it in one motion.   
      
   https://worlddeer.org/how-high-can-a-deer-jump/   
      
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