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so she would NEVER put one out there!

They have eaten every one of her daylillies as soon as they bud up (some do bloom before they discover them and away they go), have eaten her roses, her hosta becomes "salad" for all of the creatures, and she has a fenced-in veggie garden to keep the groundhogs out (the previous owner literally had a chain link "pen" with a gate for vegetable gardening that my sis removed - wish she hadn't).

I have gone over there and have seen a herd of 6 - 7, including the babies, crossing the street headed for her yard, There have been discarded antlers in her yard that my nephew would find and save.

I remember the day she moved there and i was at the house waiting for a delivery truck bringing her new patio furniture while she was with the moving truck with her hubby, and the first thing that walked through her yard was a deer. And then someone's long-hair tortie cat (my sister ended up getting one of those several years later) showed up and started "having a conversation" with the deer.

There is a little creek at the bottom of the back yard that is on a down slope and they hang out there. I always called her yard "the zoo" (deer, ground hogs, rabbits, skunks, foxes, red-tailed and Cooper's hawks, vultures, 2 different types of woodpeckers, possums, voles, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, and a whole variety of birds).

Her next door neighbor eventually started raising backyard chickens AND turkeys so I got to learn about that and my niece would go over there and collect the eggs. Sometimes the hens would get out and I would pull up to the house to visit and see a bunch pecking around the front yard but knew how to get their "food can" to herd them back to their coop. The turkeys would occasionally jump up on the fence between the properties. Her neighbor eventually had to really fence them in when the foxes and hawks discovered them.

ZOO!!!!