Animals in your garden

[DirtMechanic]

"IT’S HARD NOT TO LAUGH. Mention armadillos and the nicknames fly: tactical possums, Texas speed bumps, pocket dinosaurs. In 1675 a European naturalist declared that the long-eared, hard-shelled, burrowing beasts encountered by New World explorers must have descended from an awkward amour between a hedgehog and a tortoise." -Lynne Warren

They are fun to look at! I hear they stink? Or are they just gassy?

 

[gary350]

I have several night vision cameras. We have, armadillos, skunks, raccoons, possums, squirrels, rabbits, fox, coyote, big cats, deer. About a month ago I finally got pictures of the big cat. Big cat looks larger than a bob cat but smaller than a mountain lion. It worries me to be outside after dark, I don't want to be big cat dinner. TV News reported mountain lions in our area. Last night our dog woke us up, dog as barking, growling, and going crazy. Security lights have the yard light up and we see nothing. Here are pics of, big cat, coyote, skunk.

 

[gary350]

Every time I replace batteries in this camera date returns to 01-01-2017. I am tried of changing date to 2023. There seems to be no way to lock date into memory. I bought a new battery of our vehicle a few days ago clock was off by 4 hrs and 21 minutes. I had to look on YouTube to learn how to set vehicle clock to the correct time. Electronic clocks all have a reset starting time they always return too. Very irritating.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Every time I replace batteries in this camera date returns to 01-01-2017. I am tried of changing date to 2023. There seems to be no way to lock date into memory. I bought a new battery of our vehicle a few days ago clock was off by 4 hrs and 21 minutes. I had to look on YouTube to learn how to set vehicle clock to the correct time. Electronic clocks all have a reset starting time they always return too. Very irritating.

Do you ever use or wire on another battery to keep it together while you swap?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

The badger has worn a groove in the path he takes from the hole in the hedge, then it splits in two, one straight across to next door, one down toward the lawn and the bird feeder. These are just his regular routes though, he digs for worms all over the garden, especially where I have mulched, which of course means he will dig up plants all the time, or buries them.

 

[Sean Regan]

Animals taking different walks reminds me of my parents' Scottie dog they had fifty years ago.

He had three different walks he liked, short, medium, or long.
Each was in a different direction. When my dad came out of the house with the dog each day. The dog chose which walk he wanted. If my dad didn't want the one the dog chose, nothing would make the dog go in any other direction. He'd just roll over and lay on the ground until my dad took him the way he wanted to go.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

It always amuses me when the animals manage to train their human pets.

 

[Sean Regan]

We had a miniature poodle when we were in our twenties. He was very intelligent.

First thing in the morning, he needed a coffee before going out in the garden for a pee.

He was really tough, not frightened of anything. He loved going to the dog groomers for his "puppy cut," every few months.

We only had one child at the time and he could walk by the time he was a year old. From the age of two, my wife took him shopping several times a week in his push chair. The dog went too.
But he liked to walk. So he'd want to get out of his push chair frequently.
When he got out, the dog got in.

 

[Meadowlark]

The unmistakable signs of deer visit to the garden last night. I didn't know they liked sunflowers.

 

[Sheal]

They are such frustrating animals Meadowlark! I have a list of supposedly deer resistant plants, some of which I've crossed off. It becomes expensive when they devour shrubs and they have to be replaced.

 

[gary350]

Put a radio in your garden. Put it on a talks show channel that talks all night. Deer hear people talking they think people are in the garden and are scared away.

 

[Chuck]

Put a radio in your garden. Put it on a talks show channel that talks all night. Deer hear people talking they think people are in the garden and are scared away.

I've tried that. It works for a limited time but they get used to it and are no longer afraid.

 

[gary350]

We have a cat & small dog. Dogs barks at everything & cats chases everything. We have 10 to 12 deer in front yard every morning but never in back yard in the garden. We have 12 squirrels that don't eat vegetables. Security cameras show pictures of, skunks, possums, 2 red fox, coyotes, deer, squirrels, neighborhood cats, birds, and a very large big cat we think it is a bob cat but it looks like a mountain lion. We do have mountain lions & bears in TN. Picture of 10 lb. house cat vs bob cat the bob cat is 10 times larger.

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[Sheal]

Put a radio in your garden. Put it on a talks show channel that talks all night. Deer hear people talking they think people are in the garden and are scared away.

I haven't got a radio and where I live chat shows don't run overnight.

 

[gary350]

I haven't got a radio and where I live chat shows don't run overnight.

No one sells radios anymore.