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Re: Can a Dog Eat Your Plants??

At 07:17 PM 2/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Every night something has been eating various plants that are in
>pots on my deck---even in freezing weather when the pots were covered
>with sheet.  There is about an 8-inch space under the deck--between
>it and the ground.  So any sort of critter could nest there.  We thought
>rats, perhaps and bought bait.  The bait went, but the plant eating
>went on.  Rabbits were another thought, but our dog travels that
>deck 10-15 times every night going in and out a dog door.  Plus she's
>a good squirrel killer and watch dog.  So we set a trap last night with
>a motion sensor and a light bulb which would come on when the sensor
>was triggered.  The dog set if off 5 times last night,and then the
>it was nothing.  No plants were eaten.  Tonight, the dog is setting it
>off again, and my husband finds her poking around the pots every time
>the light goes on.  My question--does anyone have a marigold, parsley,
>Christmas cactus, lettuce, cilantro, daisy and Hens & Chickens eating
>dog????  Could it be Brandy?????
>Doreen
>

My dog eats everything not nailed down, including plants.  I think it quite
likely that the dog is eating your plants.  Dogs, I have found, do indeed
like greens and will seek them out if not offered to them.  It could also be
a cat that the dog is chasings away.  Cats are death on plants.

Francine
Highland Rose Ranch
Montrose, colorado
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