[Magdalen] speaking of critters...

[Grace Cangialosi]

Christopher, that may be just the solution I was looking for!  Of course,
I'd have to be sure to fasten it every time I went out.  I have a chair I
can wedge in now, but I don't always remember to check it, especially if
I'm just running out for a minute.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many years ago when I had a outdoor refrigerator I used a cable designed
> for securing a bicycle. It went around the fridge and through the handle so
> it would slip off and was secured with a padlock. I'd like to see the
> critter who could get through that.
>
> On Monday, May 16, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use a bungee cord--but that's as much to keep the dog out as other
> > critters! Unfortunately, I haven't found a bungee cord long enough to go
> > around the fridge!
> >
> > On May 16, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > In Wisconsin they used to sell a gadget called a "raccoon strap" that
> went
> > on the top of garbage cans. We just keep a concrete block on ours.
> >
> > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Louise Laughton <llaug2 at gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > May Sarton wrote about raccoons that became enraged at her placement
> of a
> > > woodpile that blocked their access to goodies at her house and woke her
> > in
> > > the night with the noise they made throwing the logs around. Our
> > > neighborhood in Syracuse was once jumping up and down with raccoons
> (they
> > > never met a garbage can they couldn’t open), but then they disappeared.
> > > Wildlife people said they died from distemper, not from rabies.
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Christopher Hart
>
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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

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