Critters on the homestead

**CountryRose** · 04-06-2004, 11:23 AM

Do you have "critters" on your homestead? We are trying to learn to live with a pesky stinky skunk, raccoons (just coons to us) 'possums, coyotes, and worst of all a beaver has just destroyed 3 of our 18 cypress trees that we have been babying for 2 years. I am afraid he is on the "hit" list. What are some of your solutions?

Living with "Critters" in Texas, Rosemary

**Katybird** · 04-06-2004, 12:19 PM

In my corner of Texas, we have a big fat possum that keeps eating our poor kitty's food. We have skunks, coons, coyotes that occassionaly wonder into our area, we normally hear them down on the river (a few miles from our house). During late spring and summer we get snakes too. We have found a couple of rattlesnakes and plenty of bullsnakes and grass snakes. Yucko, icko, I hate snakes.

**Missy** · 04-06-2004, 12:25 PM

we are in town, we get neighborhood dogs

, cats, foxes, racoons, occassional deer, skunk, and once a pony from a neighbors house.

**sunshine** · 04-06-2004, 01:23 PM

Critters are our farm animals--- those things you describe are varmits!

We have coons, possum, fox, weasels, coyotes, coy dogs (worse than coyotes), beavers, chicken hawks. . . . .

I finally quit supplying dinner for them in the form of chickens--- I just plain gave up---

We did the live traps for a while, so that we didn't accidentally trap a beloved pet. If we caught a varmit-- we'd shoot them in the trap. But they figured out how to avoid the traps, my dog, anything we had. . . . so we gave up.

**Darlene** · 04-06-2004, 01:28 PM

We have lots of wildlife around us too but most keep to themselves . We do have a delinquent beaver that is public enemy #1. It's been stealing wood from our woodpile and is snacking on one of our big trees.

**PrairieRose** · 04-06-2004, 02:41 PM

We live in town but we have the problem of feral cats. There is a lady down the street from me that feeds them on occaission.....ugh. It's caused a HUGE problem for all of us around here. I'm afraid that my outdoor cats are gonna get sick from fighting with the ferals.

**forestdale** · 04-06-2004, 02:42 PM

LOL darlene. I didn't know that beavers ate trees. Yikes!

We have snakes, lots of goannas (big lizards), dingoes, water dragons, possums, echindas, parrots, magpie geese, eagles and the biggest pests of all - peacocks. The peacocks wander around all over the place but when they come to our place, lured in by the vegetable garden, they sit in the trees and make the dogs bark.
Oh, and huge feral cats.

**CountryRose** · 04-06-2004, 03:24 PM

Well I didn't mention the snakes. My dad has built a lake (one of many) on his property that has backed water up behind us and we now have an area that is a habitat for waterfowl and these beavers that keep coming around....and then there are the snakes. We have water moccasins and other types of snakes. However, Bethany you have some nastier critters that I wouldn't want to have to deal with. Yikes!!
More critters in Texas, Rosemary