On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:46:25 -0800 (PST), maxine >
wrote:

>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.

GROAN!!!!!!!!