Byron, Good luck with the cat-fending, if they love the chillies themselves. If you DO come up with a solution (other than total exclusion) I'd love to try it on my possum problems! (problem possums?) Cheers, Tara When the nuclear holocaust happens, only two things will be left...cockroaches and @#!& possums!!! -- ______________________________________________________ Tara Deen School of Earth Sciences Division of Geology and Geophysics Building FO5 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Phone: 61-2-9351 4271 Fax: 61-2-9351 0184 email: tara@es.usyd.edu.au ______________________________________________________