This is a sight that chills our blood: a piece of irrigation hose in our backyard. It is the first piece savaged by Dionne (yesterday).
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| More hose ripped out this morning |
Because we live in Southern California, where it doesn't rain very much, we have a great deal of irrigation hose on our garden. Over the years, many, many pieces have been destroyed by puppies. They seem drawn to it, the way I imagine cats are drawn to catnip. (Curiously, older dogs never chew on the hoses.) In response, we've gradually added defenses that have made the garden uglier but somewhat more impervious to puppy depredation.
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| Ugly screen around the half whiskey barrel in which we grow lettuce. |
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| Ugly (but essential) screen around our blueberry bushes. Any puppy who ate my blueberries would have to be executed. CCI would not approve. |
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| Ugly screen around our struggling young avocado tree. (Though the old avocado tree is mercifully immune from puppy attacks, it's sadly vulnerable to mites.) |
Some beds are still inadequately protected.
Clearly there's more work to be done.
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