Love the descriptions of groundhogs

**j*@aol.com**

Actually I have indoor-outdoor cats, who eat side by side with the raccoons when I put out cat food.  I have never had a problem with anything eating my veggies.  Tthe deer leave my veggies alone and go for the flowers.  They used to eat the hostas, but now prefer something else. 
I let the back of the farm go wild, and they don't come up to the house any more.  Haven't had rats or mice since the cats moved in many years ago.  The moles and gophers moved out - because of the cats and raccoons and possums, they moved to the swamp bordering the development.  

I have a different problem.  I have city people moving to the country who clear cut everything to reinvent the city in areas zoned farmland.  All the animals run for cover, and usually end up at my farm.  I wish they would all go back to the city and leave the area alone.  I much prefer the wild animals to the humans that come out.  They are ruining the watershed. 
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