Re: deer and brands of soap
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: deer and brands of soap
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:07:07 -0600 (CST)
> You apparently missed my point. Cattle guards are grids flush with the
> ground, and I did understand you meant the chainlink went flat on the
> ground. Someone else suggested nylon net or hardware cloth, neither of
> which would look like a grid. No deer would hesitate to step on nylon net
> or hardware cloth, they might be dubious about stepping on chainlink, but
> they're certainly going to be wary of stepping on a cattle guard or any
> grid that looks similar. Margaret
I didn't miss your point, Margaret -- but I am making a different
assumption. Cattle don't walk on cattle grids because it makes them
very unstable -- the gaps between the bars catch at their hooves and
they cannot leap a cattle guard -- regardless of common folk lore, cows
cannot jump much at all, much less over the moon. :-) I was
genericizing the case where cats do not like to walk on anything that
tangles their feet or makes them unsteady -- and nylon net would
certainly be a big pain in the butt to walk on for a hooved (eg non flat
footed animal). Same goes for wide-meshed hardware cloth.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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