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Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: kimmer on November 21, 2009, 10:59:07 PM: I adore pansies. I love their smiling faces - they make me happy. So I always have several planter boxes filled with pansies. These are just some of the winter pansies that I bought recently. I had hoped they would last until Jan/Feb.

Ah, the dear deer were here.

Munch, munch.

The only pot left smiling. It's on the porch right outside the front door. So far the deer haven't figured out the steps.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: krissel on November 22, 2009, 01:00:49 AM: QUOTE(kimmer @ Nov 21 2009, 11:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So far the deer haven't figured out the steps.

They will.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: kimmer on November 22, 2009, 04:07:12 AM: Now, I don't want to read that.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 22, 2009, 02:37:58 PM: Don't have deer in the yard anymore, but I'm about ready to lynch a ground squirrel if I catch him removing the potting soil in several pots out back! Dirts is all over the floor! He's either hiding acorns or eating the roots of the dead plants! Either way, he could certainly be much neater!!
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And I remembered, we do still have some deer wandering around, quite brazenly...
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Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: Paddy on November 23, 2009, 06:30:13 PM: Perhaps what you need is one of these. He was just standing by the side of the road in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, near Thunder Bay when we visited on Friday. Surprised the heck out of us - unfortunately he retreated too quickly to get a good pic! Of course, he also might prefer kitty cats and small dogs, so perhaps he's not the answer.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: kimmer on November 23, 2009, 07:56:27 PM: LOL @ Paddy's suggestion.

My one pot of pansies has 2 tender, small buds. Shhhhhhh - don't tell the deer.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 23, 2009, 08:38:28 PM: QUOTE
unfortunately he retreated too quickly to get a good pic!
So, you're saying it was a lone wolf?
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: jcarter on November 25, 2009, 07:09:25 AM: We too have coyotes around here, and they do help with the deer situation too.
But now that we have Lilly, not a single deer has come into our yard, they stay in the woods.
The year between dogs after Muffin died and before we got Lilly, the damn things came into our yard and ate a lot of my flowering azaleas and others.
I bought crystalized coyote urine and spread it around after every rain storm, but that was getting really expensive with the amount of flowering shrubs we have.

One deer herd got into a local apple orchard and put the poor guy right out of business. His fence was broken and he didn't find the hole till too late.
And deer are a vector in Lyme disease too, so we really dislike them around here.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: gunug on November 25, 2009, 08:05:39 AM: I think that venison is pretty tasty!
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: jcarter on November 25, 2009, 08:14:54 AM: Thats what our bow-hunters said, when I asked them to please go for it in the woods across the street from our house. Sadly they didnt get any last year.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: gunug on November 26, 2009, 05:35:46 AM: There is a group in the Kansas City area that is proposing birth control for the deer; not sure I'd want to deal with the details myself! The number of deer/car accidents is getting to be a little too much in my life. I slowed down in the fog the other morning for 3 deer and finally stopped and turned on the flashers to get them to move.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: Frances144 on November 26, 2009, 12:37:57 PM: I wouldn't mind donating my pansies if I got to take spectacular photos of the deer. We have otters that kill our hens and I would happily swap a hen for a good photoshoot but no, they just cause carnage and death. It is very sad.

I hope your pansies survive the attack and the ones you have hidden remain hidden.
Title: The pansies and the dear deer
Post by: jcarter on November 26, 2009, 04:14:50 PM: Otters!
The few that were here about 50 years ago, have been forced into local extinction by humans coming in and building near wetlands. And I suppose the coyotes get a few.
My husband's parents used to watch the otters play, they are so funny sliding and running all over the marshlands, but they are long gone now.
My neighbour had chickens and they were OK with their fences and secure henhouse, but my grandson had 2 pet chickens and the raccoons got both, as they had the run of the woods. Too young to realize you have to fly up into the trees at night!
Jane