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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] A peace that never was...

I have seen this done with other animals, giving me reason to think there really is something to it.
-Lon Rombough
>
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From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 09:57:39 -0500
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A peace that never was...
>
> The real question is will any of them fend off groundhogs?
>
> I have a bit of a story about our groundhog experience.  We had an old daddy groundhog who lived in the woodshed & had free access to our annual vegetable garden.  Being that we are a community & often times we have "militant" vegans & animal rights activists living here & try to operate by consensus the
> easiest solutions are not always possible here.  But when the damage to the garden became  particularly bad an old friend of mine showed up who would be labelled as a crazy or an empath depending on yr view of such matters.  He spotted furry fatso feasting on some vegetables, walked right  up to him &
> counselled him for a good long time about the fact that we wanted to eat those vegetables & would he please go elsewhere to fill his belly.  Never saw that groundhog again.
mIEKAL