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BigBill said: I don't have any idea of the rural ness of the area that you live in but, white tailed deer have been known to jump over a 12 foot fence!
I am in a very commercial/residential area here 30 miles west of Detroit. I have seen deer on my property just once but I find piles of raisins in my yard from time to time.
I also have squirrels, opossum, raccoon, rabbits, Fox, skunk and woodchuck. Here my woodchucks climb trees.

Oh my God, BigBill, you do have all kind of critters threatening your garden. I can not even start to imagine how much damage they can do. I have only squirrels and rabbits here and they are driving me crazy. Not so rural around my house. I have never seen any kind of deer anywhere around my house. It is really an urban environment, they would get hit by cars if they would venture over here. There has been some debate in the city of Longueuil for some years now about some Virginia Deer that are overpopulating the regional parc. They are eating away the parc's vegetation and causing car accidents. But animal rights groups are fighting for the deer so the matter has become extremely difficult to settle. But luckily for me, that is not close to my house