Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Destructive raccoons ..., 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Well, it's been TWO nights in a row since I blocked the gate and no damage found in my backyard. So I "hope" that it continues to work and they don't find another way in. I have walked all around the entire exterior of my backyard fence and unless they parachute in or fall from a tall Brazilian Pepper tree branch into my yard, I think they may have to look elsewhere for bird food. :-)

Here is a photo of what I did to discourage them sneaking in. A bit inconvenient when I want to get into my own backyard from the gate, but well worth it to save my water plants and the bird and squirrel feeders and the rest of my garden plants that they were digging up! :-)

Fingers and toes crossed!!!!

Added to include: Can you see all the scratch marks in the dirt. They DID try to move the concrete borders, but fortunately couldn't!

Cat - One of the teachers at my school raised a baby possum. It would cozy up under his beard and sleep. It was so little and this teacher would carry it around in his shirt pocket to substitute for mama's pouch. The mother was hit by a car and he found the baby wandering around near the road. He brought it to school and shared it with all the students. Bottle fed it. It was really neat! They are actually quite cute! He is a nature lover, too. Lives on about 5 acres somewhere just north of Sebastian and handfeeds snapping turtles in his pond and has some stories to tell about ALL of his wildlife friends! I could listen to his stories for hours! He is so funny! He was my daughter's teacher in 5th grade and she still goes to visit him in his classroom after school. He is a very interesting teacher and I've never heard of a student that didn't like him. He looks like a hippie throw-back from the 60's, but much older! LOL!

This message was edited Mar 27, 2007 10:25 AM