In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> crop for the tree-rats was small around here and the deer have just
> eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground. I'd thought ivy was poisonous
> but not to horn-rats it seems.

We have a lot of poison oak around here (west coast of the US). It
makes some people pretty miserable if they touch it, or just inhale
smoke from a burn. The deer eat it!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA