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Yeah---you can use a four-panel pain-projector that will drive off any 
four-footed menace---IF you have FULL coverage of a big garden, and the 
purchase price is tolerable.

This won't work against bears, but it will work against rabbits and 
deer.  With the addition of a high-voltage scare wire, it will also work 
against  raccoon.  Oor dog has wiped out the once-numerous woodchucks so 
no one has to worry about them any more..

Anyway, here is the drill---surround the garden with two-foot high 
chickenwire---lower part buried in the ground.  A lawn-edger attachment 
makes that easy, and so does pounding in six-foot high steel T-Bar 
fenceposts at twelve-foot intervals (brace the cornerposts with 
Wedgelocks,  or two wood braces from top of cornerpost, to bottom of two 
adjacent lineposts. If you are really lazy, you can use a single wooden 
brace, notched at the top where it meets the steel cornerpost, and at 
the bottom nailed to a plywood plate which rests on the ground and 
pinned there by a piece of rebar to keep it locked in place.

Next, get for each steel post a durable wood post-extension six, 
preferably seven feet long.  Tie three feet of the lower end to the 
steel fenceposts with  seventeen-gage electric fencewire, or automotive 
stainless clamps  used for clamping rubber tube to hose-barbs. Here, 
Juniper or Black Locust saplings are plentiful for post-extensions, and 
will last longer than you will.

To the post-extensions, wire-tie all around the garden, a four-foot high 
piece of cheap orange plastic snowfence.  It is somewhat floppy, but 
deer view it as an impossible barrier to their jumping.  Raccoon would 
view both chickenwire and plastic snowfence as an easily-climbed 
playpen, except for a high-voltage scare-wire at their junction. ..

A high-voltage scare wire at the juncture of chickenwire and orange 
plastic snowfence will keep raccoons at bay.  For this purpose a 
solar-powered fence charger is handy.  A high-voltage wire near the 
ground is quckly grounded out by weeds, but if mounted at the juncture 
of chickenwire and orange plastic showfence, a wire is rarely grounded 
and inspection easy.

A weak point is the gate-entry to the garden. With the orange plastic 
attached to it, deer won't bother it, nor will raccoon if it carries a 
high-voltage scare-wire.  The only really vulnerable part is where the 
bottom of the gate clears the ground---and the vulnerability is 
basically to rabbits.  Reduce it by any kind of a bar, such as a board 
you can hinge or lift.

Before the good people of Zanoni built that huge Rat-Heaver which 
launched Gene on a real-estate career in Phoenix, he had a double-fence 
four-foot "moat" surrounding his garden at Heartwood., and two canine 
slaves named Dax and Benny roaming inside.  Deer don't like to jump a 
double fence or get in a dog-duel. In addition to Dax and Benny, 
chickens roamed inside the double fence, scarfing up any bug that dared 
try to cross the moat.