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To: jaycee

If the deer get to be a problem, try dusting the plants you want left uneaten with cayenne pepper (sort of heavily) and they will soon pick ‘kinder’ forage. Fun to do to bird seed, (birds don’t even notice) You will see squirrels quit eating right away (Unless you get the two illegal squirrels at our feeder last year who must have been from Juarez, because they cleaned out the bird feeder, pepper and all! (Must have thought it was taco night I guess)


2,875 posted on 03/30/2009 6:09:41 AM PDT by WayzataJOHNN ( Poetry is the jazz of words, laid down by a feeling soul.)
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To: WayzataJOHNN
Good morning WayzataJOHNN :)
I hope when it gets a little warmer the deer will have enough food to stay in the woods here. That's when it will drive me nuts. If not, I have sprayed that deer stuff. It smells awful and then dries. They usually leave plants alone. I hope. :)

Have a terrific day!

2,881 posted on 03/30/2009 6:20:38 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA ( God Bless Our Military Heroes! ) ((Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them))
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To: WayzataJOHNN

Johnn, I tried that on the front porch in my concrete flower containers and it didn’t bother the squirrels at all. I was telling GeeBee that I don’t have deer here, but she does all the time. My sons have them but they don’t bother much. The squirrels chewed one of my bird feeders all to pieces a few months ago. I get so aggravated. And a little girl (yes, girl) was swinging my hummingbird feeder when I caught her and I lifted the blinds and hit the window hard with a spoon to make her stop. She ran home and in just a few minutes the whole bottom fell from the feeder. Makes me so mad.

This is not the first thing this little girl has broken at my house. When I go somewhere she messes with everything and I don’t like it. My neighbor and I both have called her mother and she will stay away a little while and then creep back up here.


2,888 posted on 03/30/2009 6:33:17 AM PDT by jaycee ("His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me. ")
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