>Re: feral dogs/other chile pests: I got this crazy idea about a possible >deterrent... engineering chile plants so they had thorns/spines. Just what we need - chile-heads comparing scars they've aquired picking peppers!! Or maybe then we'd need leather gloves to pick them, and vinyl gloves to work with peppers. The possibilities are endless :_) Then everybody would think that we (chile-heads) are a bunch of "bloody" fools. (pun intended). Nels in ND