On Mar 2, 5:56*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> maxine wrote:
> >> -sw
>
> > Steve, there are sky rats (pigeons), tree rats (squirrels), and now
> > horn(ed) rats, aka deer which will depradate the landscape of most
> > suburbs given a winter of little natural foods. *Seemed pretty obvious
> > to me, but then, I've seen what deer can do.
>
> But deer don't have horns. They have antlers.

Picky, picky, picky<grin> You're right, but I was pretty sure he
didn't have (hippopotumuses/) (hippopottomi?) hippos in MD, and goats,
a more likely type of horn rats are not usually allowed in suburban
areas..... After working on the cooperative extension's gardening
hotline, something that comes in and eats all the landscaping
vegetation and only has 4 legs, well, that's deer. I might have
called them wood-pigs, since they do eat everything, but that would
have been a boar.

nattering on
maxine in ri