Greg I thought like you until I moved and realized what damage they do. If it was a nibble here and there it could be acceptable.
The first year I moved in I sat by the windows taking pics of all the wildlife. Well Spring arrived and they ate all the tulips and the daffadoils a plant that is suppose to be poison and not animals is suppose to eat them. Okay no Spring flowers. Then every hosta, daylily was gone. I walked out the next morning and dropped my cup of tea.
This hosta was 9 years old when I moved it to the new house. It was 3' tall and 5' wide. I had to move it with a dolly. This is what they did to it in one night and every other mature hosta in the garden.
This is what that hosta and every other hosta, gerainum, lily in the garden looked like. Just stems sticking out of the ground.
I cried for days and started looking for things that keep them out of the garden. I have a 8' fence around one acre where I garden but they jump the fence. I have to make stuff not so attractive with repellents, lights and lots of movement in the gardens at night,
I love nature from a distance.
