But mommy, I wanna have one for a pet.

[Iowaboo]

Stupid deer have taken out my bissetii. So that one isn't going to win any awards. I think I'm going to move the bissetii and alot of the other bamboo closer to the house. 1/2 of 40 species are already close to me. I'm having too many problems with gremlins. Whadyasay? when to move them, early spring?

[Cactus Joe]

The racoons. They love our fishes - for dinner.

We stock our little front yard pond with the cheap feeder gold fishes. They grow pretty fast, gets from an inch to 3 inch fishes within about 3 months. Those cunning racoons know exactly when to pounce - they wet for the fishes to fatten up, wait for the weather to turn cold (when the fishes are more lethargic and easier to catch), and then.................. In the dead of the night, they come stealing along and catch and eat every one of those fishes.

I know it's the racoons because they leave bits of uneaten fish lying around. And I have seen them lurking around.

I am thinking seriously of stocking the pond with piranas next year. Let's see who eats who then, huh?

[BooKing]

Blue heron is my archenemy right now which has been trying to fishnap my Japanese koi. The wabbits use to be but a FENCE has taken care of them.

[bambooweb]

I assume you meant cause pain with bamboo and not the people with to much time on their hands trying to impersonate ex-singers.

Bill

[CadyG]

I planted P. bissetii, rubromarginata and mannii 'Decora' (along with F. nitida) in back along the property boundary specifically to screen out the moron who lives on the hill behind me. I eagerly await the day when a thick forest obliterates his ugly house and his own bizarre behavior.

[Iowaboo]

I assume you meant cause pain with bamboo and not the people with to much time on their hands trying to impersonate ex-singers

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I thought you would like that, Bill

ugly house and his own bizarre behavior

This bizarre behavior, you mean somewhat like Michael Jackson? let us know more!

[CadyG]

ugly house and his own bizarre behavior

This bizarre behavior, you mean somewhat like Michael Jackson? let us know more! [/quote]

Where to start? Besides him lobbing his unwanted Halloween pumpkins down the hill into the backyards of the neighbors below (I took the ones that landed in my yard and rolled them back uphill, propped in place by a tree, where he can enjoy watching them rot from his kitchen window), he makes regular forays along the Neutral Zone making sure nothing of mine -- a chicken, a bamboo shoot, a fence post... -- is touching his side of the property line.

Every so often, he stomps down the mountainside (about 100' between his house and mine) and pretends to "prune" some of the weedy plants that grow in the sparse, ledgy soil along the line. He'll pretend to carefully inspect a straggly shrub, plucking a leaf now and then. I call it "peeing on trees," like male dogs who mark their territory by lifting a leg on everything they deem to be theirs.

Then he inspects my fence posts (recently installed) and paces along the line, his nose pointed toward the boundary marker, as though trying to discern an iota of trespass. Barring an earthquake, the posts are not likely to move, but he is making sure.

I'm hoping the bamboo will sneak onto his land and fill up the bottom of the hill. It probably won't spread beyond the small strip at the bottom since the hill is granite with thin soil over that. Only a few Norway maples and yews have gotten a toehold over the years.

[mantis]

Bamboo wise it would have to be humans in the form of my HOA (Home Owners Association).

[foxd]

At least pumpkins are biodegradable, it certainly beat him rolling used tires down the hill to get rid of them. (usually car, but one time tractor.)

I seem to have had more than my share of bad weird neighbors. (As opposed to good weird, which I can deal with.) One of the toppers was a crazy woman who moved in across the street with her dog named Bear. Bear supposedly got loose and her relatives ran all over the neighborhood looking for him. They were everywhere! Shortly after this there started to be a string of break-ins in the neighborhood. I realize now that they were casing the neighborhood and using the dog as a cover story. A lot of bad things happened while that woman lived here.

[Iowaboo]

realize now that they were casing the neighborhood and using the dog as a cover story. A lot of bad things happened while that woman lived here.

I'm glad people and I keep our distance. I use my dog only for the common good, such as a deer-seeking missle. Its fun to watch her running after deer, or one time she was running in the middle of a small herd of deer.

[Iowaboo]

Bamboo wise it would have to be humans in the form of my HOA

Why? what have they said about your bamboo?

Besides him lobbing his unwanted Halloween pumpkins down the hill into the backyards of the neighbors below

Sounds like he found a source of entertainment. As long as he is only being weird, count yourself lucky. Weird things happen around here, too. Our neighbor likes throwing garbage in his dry pond. So, let's just say when spring rains come, I see alot of flourescent light bulbs floating in the pond.

[Roy]

I see the "Homo sapiens" and "Other" (perhaps Neanderthals) have taken a commanding lead.


Human 36% [ 4 ]

Other 27% [ 3 ]
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percent: 63%

[JakeK]

I voted for the human, but my neighbor's cat is a close second. It takes too many craps in my mulch, and is constantly trying to kill fledglings in my trees during the spring and summer.

Humans irritate me the most regarding my bamboo. I have had to get rid of all my bamboo because of other humans.

Btw,
Lance move the bissetii when it is still in dormancy. Less of a chance to shock it.

[foxd]

Hard to pick, between the deer, gophers and humans. Different ones have caused different problems, though the defenses that have stopped the gophers have also stopped the deer. The humans are an entirely different set of problems, somewhat similar to raccoons in behavior.

[CadyG]

At least pumpkins are biodegradable, it certainly beat him rolling used tires down the hill to get rid of them.

He occasionally tosses trash. There was a big, black plastic pot lying at the foot of the hill this morning. And, there is leftover construction rubble from when his McMansion was shoddily constructed 7 years ago. Besides the live bamboo to screen the worst of it, I'm putting reed fencing on the wooden fence, which will shield me from both his trash and his Sasquatch-like presence on Border Patrol.

Oh. Last year, his pumpkins landed in my neighbor's yard, and the neighbor promptly loaded them in his car, drove to Sasquatch's house and put the pumpkins back on his doorstep.