We do not have guns here - not allowed to have them - I think this is a wonderful place- one pull on the trigger, perhaps lots of regrets Angela ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Hayek" <susanann@sbcglobal.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:12 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Lions and Tigers and BEARS, oh my. > >We have lots of bears here on the Oregon coast. > >They do not bother the deer. > >The deer eat what they want. > >So do the bear. > >So fencing in very important to save your crops of anything. > >Need a combination of solid and electric. > >Sam > > **We have bears, mountain lions, porcupine, raccoons, fox, and deer > here on the North NoCal coast. > > We do NOT shoot them. We're in their territory, they're not in ours. > Maude the deer and her grown up babies are just part of our lives. We > cage the trees and grown things intensively so they have some and we > have some left. > We do have guns here, but mostly for if we have to go out at night to > protect the chickens (who are in secure house, but....). > > > The bears hit the orchard, so do the raccoons and the porcupine. (So > do the birds and I don't shoot them.) > The deer eat lots of kinds of things in the front, even those plants > considered deer proof. > In the back we have wood rats, gophers, mice and who knows what. They > eat a lot of stuff too. > > We live with them and do the best we can. > > s. > -- > Don't anthropomorphize dogs. > They hate that. > > susan, who is..... > owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the > Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... > on the North Coast of CA, USA > susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2006 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >