What sort of intelligent critters bear grudges?

[struggle4progress]

About a week ago, I startled something in my yard in the dark near my deck. The next morning, a pot on the deck had been pushed off a ledge and broken

Last night, I went outside and startled something ON the deck. This morning, another pot on the ledge had been pushed off

I'm guessing that Whoever is sending me a strong message: watch it! or the pots will suffer!

But I don't know who Whoever is: mebbe raccoon or mebbe local kitty. Any ideas?

I've marked the deck and a nearby tree with my pee, on the off-chance that Whoever will take a hint

[HopeHoops]

1. Garden gnomes with grudges. Watch out, man. Watch out.

NEVER, I say NEVER fuck with garden gnomes.

[hobbit709]

2. Bear grudges are the worst.

[Rosie1223]

3. My money is on raccoon

A cat will go around things on the ledge. A raccoon will be "who put this effing pot in my way??" and knock it off.

[struggle4progress]

5. Yeh, but they only got knocked off after I interrupted Whoever. Not WHEN I interrupted Whoever --

but AFTER. Pretty sure it was revenge

[rug]

4. Only the evil ones.

[struggle4progress]

6. yikes! Is that the Cursed Hound of the Baskervilles?

[Lars39]

7. Of course it's revenge....ents don't like to be peed on.

:D

[struggle4progress]

9. Oh, foo! Some water, some nitrogenous compounds ... what's there for an ent not to like?

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Ents only eat veal and tuna.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. LOL, you marked your territory? Seriously? Hope that works

out for you. I may try it if you report back to us that it worked. Take my patio back from the raccoons who think it is their litter box. Danged raccoons.

And my money is on raccoons. They are smart, sneaky little buggers.

[struggle4progress]

10. I saw a documentary once where a wildlife biologist kept a wolf at bay by marking the boundaries

of his camp, some yards away, using the near side of rocks the wolf was marking on the far side

And an old geezer has told me it works to limit cats near his house

So some of what's out there knows this language and respects it

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Once -- long, long ago -- I had a small garden in a clearing DEEP in the woods...

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...although I can't for the life of me remember what the crop was.
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Damn remembering-thing.
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When the plants were small, I think little critters were nibbling them.
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When they got 3-4 foot tall, I think deer were eating them from the top
down to the last coupla inches.
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I tried EVERYTHING to keep them away.
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Including storing my pee in two-liter bottles, making a sprinkler cap
for them, and backpacking said pee up to sprinkle on the plants at
regular intervals. Didn't work (but when someone smiled and said,
"This is good shit"... I'd get the bestest, ironickest grin).
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Didn't work. FINALLY, a 15:1 water/Tobasco dilution sprinkling did.
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Apparently, the tingling triggers a poison avoidance instinct.
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NOW I remember!!!! Um... Australian tomatoes...
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[struggle4progress]

12. Yeah, I tried growin Australian tomatoes once. Long story. Apparently, they weren't native to that

region and also didn't usually naturally seed themselves in little cups, so the attempt was unsuccessful. It was nice of a former cop to point that out to me. I never did have good gardenin skills

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. There are no intelligent critters (people included) who bear grudges.

My first thought is that you have a coon - they used to fuck up our planters all the time. Dad solved it with a chemical energy --> kinetic energy conversion.

[struggle4progress]

16. There is a raccoon about. This critter moves about as fast as a sleek and hungry cat,

to judge by sound. The raccoon is a bit less skittish: last year, I would come out on the deck, and the blighter would stand ground and curiously blink at me, as if not sure what this big stupid biped was; I finally decided to show technological superiority and launched volleys from several pails of water at it, after which I have not seen it on the deck

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. LOL. So true. Coons have no concept of decorum or even the ethics of thievery.

they're just bastards.

Like republicans. no panache; just brutality and thuggery.

[struggle4progress]

18. I have to say that I find many varmints charming until they intrude too closely upon my habitation

I am rather fond of raccoons, provided they maintain a respectful distance, which (of course) they are not always prone to do

[UTUSN]

15. Me. I'm irreconcilable and irrevocable and (fill me in the Illiad quote, please)n/t

[dimbear]

19. Their is a long tradition that elephants hold grudges for years.

This is so widely believed that it is hard to dismiss, and elephants are surely among the most intelligent of creatures.

We even have that old saying that's running through your head right now.

Prolly the origin of the GOP symbol.

[struggle4progress]

20. If there were an elephant prancing on my deck, I'd expect to see footprints in the boards