We have the big bucks of IL trained to walk up and down the rows of our gardens and eat all the free weeds the can eat. They know better than tonibble on a veggie or its the ax for them. We watch em from our bedroom windows thru a 10x scope. Rofl LOL. So far the only critte problems Iv had is a racoon banghead who keeps taking the sweet corn cobs out of the composter and leaving them in the yard and about the place. His day is coming soon enough though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!