Anything’s a Meal When the Snow’s Three Feet Deep!
The
blanket of snow over everything is beautiful to us snug in our homes with full
cupboards and refrigerators; but to the animal life out there it’s a different
matter.
To the
rodents that scamper about, life is a race between life and death. Resourcefulness
is the order of the day; remembering where that nut was buried could be all
that stands between him and death…unless you have a burning bush, or some other
shrubbery with tender stems and branches.
This is
where the “Winter Wonderland Pictured” outside becomes a “Lifeless Landscaping Look”
in the spring.
What
animals won’t touch during the buffets of spring, summer, or fall, is now taking
on more appeal. Never do they make a bee line to your euonymus bushes during
the warmer months when the grub is plentiful. But now even the nastiest of
greenery (or “stickery” would be eaten with relish.
I’m not saying
there’s anything you can do about it this late in the game, but what could be
tried is sprinkling things like fox urine or used kitty litter around your
roses, burning bush (anything in the euonymus family), lilac, forsythia and so
on. Maybe the fear of being torn apart by a fox or Mountain Lion (they don’t
know it’s Mitttens your declawed portly house cat) might make them think twice
about venturing any further.
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