Hi Dib, just checked to see if you'd have opossum in El Cerrito, United States, and yes you do. If you watch around three o'clock AM, you're sure to see the little critter eating your impatiens. Yup, it's an opossum alright, and Oakland critter control will help you get rid of them, just call 1-800-CRITTER. Thank you for commenting. Hope they'll catch that nasty, little critter before all your blossoms are gone.
Thank YOU Brigitte, you are an angel yourself. You were so very helpful in calming me when he took his turn for the worse, and because you shared info with me, he had a calmer caregiver. I shall be eternally grateful to you {{{HUGS}}}
Nugget cared for you a LOT Karen, of that I know. Thank YOU for being there for us BOTH {{{HUGS!}}}
{{{HUGS!}}} Thank YOU Karen. I look forward to the day I will hold him in my arms once again, and give him a big hug like I used to.
I bet you will see a little of Rascal in ever Shih Tzu from now on Monte. With me, it will always be my little man Nugget.
Well said, Thank YOU Shaun.
Luck you Mohammed. Nice to have neighbours who care about their property. I'm as fortunate as you are. My neighbours came to my back yard in the spring and cleaned up all the branches. I only had to clean up the smaller broken branches that easily fit into paper bags along with the leaves that accumulated over the autumn. My garage roof suffered 3 holes and they too were fixed in the spring for only $300, so I consider my self VERY fortunate. I have yet to fix up the damages done to my fence, but that too will get done soon. Thank YOU for dropping by and commenting Mohammed, hope you'll stop in regularly.
Hi Maria, I use cinnamon on my breakfast cereal, but PLEASE review the warning I posted above before using cinnamon on a regular basis, I STILL have yet to start taking cumin, however, I'm sure Dr. Oz's website offers a few suggestions for usage, and the fennel seed I eat straight up as a breath freshener :-).
Hi Annette, if you ever find a potion to keep these critters away from your garden PLEASE, come back here and share with all of us here? So far, I can find no way of even capturing them outside Douglas Allen’s method... and his method I'm to fearful of using for fear a cat... or worse, my little Chihuahua-mix, being trapped in that nasty rat trap.
Hi mar, some local vendors are calling it a blight, but I still believe it is the work of opossums, as I explained to Pen yesterday (comment above). I quit planting impatiens last year yet had opossums ruin some of my perennial blossoms when they found no impatiens to eat. This spring, I lost about 4" of new growth of a beautiful poppy that had survived the nasty winter we finished experiencing this April. New growth has NOT come back since, and yes, that too I am blaming on opossums as NOTHING touched my gardens before the population boom seen in opossums here in the GTA. Coyotes are even trespassing into our city parks during daylight hours looking for food. One was spotted at 1:30PM on the first of June. Coyote love to eat opossums!
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