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["Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>]

Hello all,

After a very disheartening growing season this year with the grasshoppen 
infestation we had, I figured it would be a nice relaxing winter break.  
Well, Mr. porcupine has spoiled that much needed reprieve from worrying 
about my trees.  You'd think with a valley full of chokecherries, 
saskatoons, and other trees, it would leave mine alone...

I have tried live trapping using carrots/grain/apple slices, but nothing 
seems to work.  Going out at dusk everynight with a .22 has not produced 
results either.  In the past I found the .22 much more efficient than my 
first weapon...a shovel.  (Although, I really got my frustration out on that 
one as I recall.)

If anyone has a sure fire way to bait this menace, I would really appreciate 
it.  Honestly, I don't want to kill this animal, just stop it from wrecking 
my hard work.

Thanks!

Dean Kreutzer
Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
USDA zone 3

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