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Message: [QUOTE="Babble64, post: 19874, member: 552"] Well, I have to say the turtle is a new one for me!! Let's see.... there were those lovely woodchucks we had to deal with last summer. :( I think we nipped that problem in the bud, finally. I was naive enough to think they could live in harmony with us...until they got greedy and wanted basement space as well as under-the-deck space! I think I had still better attend to back filling holes and keep a supply of peanut butter poison on hand, to deter future residents! One year I was relaxing on the deck, having my morning coffee, when something caught my eye. I looked up to see a skunk coming straight for me. I was so startled I actually yelled at it. Good plan, huh? Would have started my morning off in a wonderful way if it has sprayed me! A few years before that I'd had a skunk spray somewhere near my house (I'm guessing under my deck) and for a day or so I had the smell INSIDE my house! Didn't want a repeat of THAT! Well, I tried about three or four different things with THAT guy before he finally just left. Turns out skunks are transient and don't stay too long in one place. I also have a family (or two or three?) of chipmunks, the population of which I can never quite reduce to zero. I think they are responsible for the disappearance of my columbine leaves each year! There are squirrels, which only seem to be a problem if they can manage their way onto our bird feeders or when my husband forgets to put the rock on top of the can that holds the extra bird seed. Many years ago my first husband and I gave up vegetable gardening because the neighborhood deer ate nearly everything. It was as if they thought we'd opened a restaurant just for them! We tried everything we could think of to deter them, short of fencing the area in with a tall fence, but nothing seemed to work. I'm hoping that when my husband and I give it a go next spring/summer we can manage better. (Why I think we can, I'm not sure!) [/QUOTE]

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