On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Byron wrote: > Carp > > Why don't you > > A. Fence your garden > B. Get a good hunting dog ( had a part beagle that chased anything that > moved) > C. Get and learn how to to use PROPERLY a small cal. rifle Well, our biggest porblem is our garden is in the neighbor's back yard. I've firearms aplenty *and* two beagle dawgs. The neighbors are kind folk, but their idea of having a garden in the back yard (suburbia) doesn't include me in full cammie-gear sneaking about with blooodlust on me mind. Trust me, were this my place there would be a bloodbath. However, I look on it as a challenge. The mousetraps seem to be wirking, and we have a bunch of chicken wire from our first effort up there. We've decided that next year it will go back up. Squirrely-squirrely-squirrelys can't be harder to discourage than that groundhawg, and right now we seem to have him on the run. I'd eat him though if I could pop him. Eat everything you kill, but try not to kill everything you eat; that's my motto. And I've had groundhawg just 3 years ago. The sirloin/t-bone muscles are delicious. carp