Got the Theif!

Early in the summer we planted what we thought would be a nice garden. We didn't put quite as many different things in this year as in previous years but we planted peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, and zuchinni. Shortly after our peas came up I noticed that the one end of peas had all of the tops stripped off. The next week the middle of the row was beginning to look a little sad. Numerous times we had seen bunnies in the garden and Casey would run out like a wild maniac and scare them away. Obviously they are sneaky little creatures that we don't see all the time so Ryan went out and bought a live trap to catch the family of bunnies that seems to be living in our neighbors shed. After checking first thing every morning for a couple of days Casey was very disappointed to find the cage empty. But lo and behold less than a week later we had caught our first theif! He was taken to a nearby woods to make a new home. We also had another trap set up to catch some annoying little chipmunks. But about a week after catching the rabbit I went outside to see a big, fat racoon caught in the trap. Ryan was afraid of getting too close to the coon and wasn't quite sure how he was going to dispose of this critter without getting bitten. Never fear though...he was a crafty fellow and by the time Ryan got to him he had chewed his way right through the wire cage! Sad to say we have not caught the rest of the bunny family and my peas are now tilled under as they were mostly destroyed. At least they don't seem to like the rest of the stuff we have planted in the garden. Next year maybe we will have to invest in some fence to go around the garden to keep our unwanted guests out!