"Michael "Dog3"" > wrote in message
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> "James Silverton" > news:b2sxl.1732$SU3.321
> @nwrddc02.gnilink.net: in rec.food.cooking
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>> Hello All!
>>
>> It froze quite solidly last night and the horn-rats ate about a hundred
>> crocuses! They are obviously not poisonous to them.
>
> Oh Gawd. What are "horn-rats"?

That's what the cheap lazy *ignorant* *******s who won't put up fencing call
deer... of course only the stags are horny. Hungry deer will eat
everything, only a proper fence will deter them... and since it's
impractical to fence everything put out something they will prefer over your
puny bulbs, like a few bales of rib sticking hay. And since if there re
deer you likely live rural so leave some acreage forested and some fallow so
the deer will still have habitat, remember they were here first, and by
giving them space they will repay you tenfold. And anyway some other
critter is digging up your bulbs, deer don't dig bulbs but they will eat
what sprouts, they'll eat the flowers if rabbits don't beat them to it.
There are lots of smaller nocturnal critters that will dig bulbs,
woodchucks, raccoons, possum, skunks, muskrat, fox, a long list. Ruminants
like deer won't dig for food, this time of year if there's no herbage yet
they'll eat twigs and tree bark.

> Whatever they are I don't want them. I'm
> still grateful the English Bluebells I planted in the fall escaped the
> wrath of the tree-rats around here. They're digging up a storm. I don't
> know how those itty bitty squirrels can dig a giant pot hole. Mean little
> *******s.
>
>
Squirrels are only dgging up your bulbs because by spring they've depleted
their cache of stored food... toss out a few handfuls of in-shell peanuts
and sunflower seeds each day (they're cheap), once they're hooked on better
vittles they won't want your stinkin' TIAD bulbs.