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[Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>]

Too true. What about trying those motion activated water jets? I saw them on "Ask This Old House."

Don't know if they'd be safe to use in the winter though.

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From: Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:40:43 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] neighbors/electric fence


On May 12, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Sheridan Shumway wrote:

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> done properly and your not stupid about it an electric fence is harmless to even small children......generally it only takes being bit by one once and even pretty young kids learn what to look out for(sure in the heck didnt take us long and we werent farm kids)...will it sting some? sure but on a normal pain scale it doesnt rate very high....

Nevertheless, in an area where electric fences are otherwise unheard of, it may get the neighborhood up in arms. There are a lot of things that farm kids and farm families take for granted that freak out at least some city kids and families (and, I'm sure, this is also true the other way around).

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly