Wildlife here aren't a huge issue because many of the homes around here have apple and pear trees (as do we) and there is plenty of foraging material for the deer. A few years ago, we had a group of wild boar, but they are gone now. My dogs do a decent job of scaring off the rabbits and coyotes in the daytime.
Other than the dogs, I have NO help around here. I use a tractor to move mulch and piles of weeds, and have a really fast lawnmower, so mowing just takes me about 5 hours a week. What I really need is automated sprinklers, as I spend way too much time watering. I laid miles of dripline last year but it does not deliver enough water. Luckily, this year we've had plenty of rain. Problem is, we get 5 inches in an hour, and then none for the next 3 weeks. Saturday, we had a big earthquake, and now I have cracked brick on my garage wall.
I was in Oklahoma, about 50 miles from the epicenter, and didn't feel much. My daughter in Kansas City, 350 miles north of me, said she was shaken from her bed! Her apartment is on the 2nd story of an old brick building and I was on a boat in OK, so that may explain that.