Post #796883 by Sandbartender on Sun, Aug 18, 2019 7:32 PM

On 2019-08-18 17:23, Hamo wrote:
I don't imagine many other TCers have this exact problem: I woke up the other morning to find an elk (most likely) had nearly obliterated my mint plant.

But he didn't get the rum....

I've never had a elk eat my mint, but I did have deer and raccoon eat all of my tomatoes and oregano down to the stumps.

Also, we had a badger lumbering down around below our back deck one morning a few summers ago. My wife was out there eating breakfast when she called to me
to ask me what that weird animal was... I was like "Holy hells! Stay up here- do NOT go down into the yard!!!" LOL

You don't mess with badgers. Only time I've seen one here. Although we've got pretty much everything else that lives in the area.

Coyote, wolves, deer, some sort of weasel-or-fisher, owls and bats of all sorts, and, occasionally, something that shrieks in the night that sounds
like fingernails down a blackboard- and DEFINITELY not cats. We're too wild to have very many feral cats (apart from the occasional mountain lion that
works it's way south).