Dear Uncle DaveO--

Our way to handle deer in the rose garden is just to let them eat their fill. We live in the foothills. Over the past twenty-five years human expansion to their habitat, and the curtailment of rain in Southern California, have severely impinged on their food supply.

We've had, on occasion, five of those guys in the yard at one time. We do not begrudge them their lunch, and the plants re-rose themselves.
We also have squirrels, raccoons, possums and skunks come through at various times.

I love living where I do with all God's critters.