Re: Groundhogs

**"* <t*@earthlink.net>**

At the last house I owned here in California the grey Norway rats were so 
bold that in the summer, at about quarter to eight in the early evening, 
they'd start running back and forth on the powerline right behind my 
backyard. It took me about three nights of seeing this when I got a bright 
idea. My son and I set up our camp chairs and armed with a pair of BB guns, 
we'd shoot at the rats as they ran across. Was actually great fun and now 
and then we did actually knock a rat off the wire. Unfortunately, after a 
week of this late afternoon wholesome family entertainment, the lousy rats 
got wise to it and stopped using the wire as a freeway.

Tom
PS. No matter how much you eastern folks knock those groundhogs....my all 
time favorite movie is still Groundhog Day.
PPS. I had a serious deer problem here for years....they ate pretty near 
everything ....I tried human hair from the barber shop, coyote urine, 
mountain lion urine, Not Tonight Deer, night motion lights, etc....finally 
solved the deer problem with some serious deer fencing (which doesn't do a 
thing to stop the raccoons).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <loisdan@juno.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Groundhogs

> Ha! When I lived in the Smokies, we had wharf rats (brown) that were as
> big as a small groundhog. But well, poison ivy is a shrub there and wild
> blackberries are as big as a thumb.
>
> Lois
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:10:47 -0500 CobraHead <info@cobrahead.com> writes:
>> Tom said, "I'd trade you our rats for your cute groundhogs,
>> anytime."
>> Noel said " The (groundhog) adults are more than five times bigger than
> adult rats.
>>
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