We live in the woods with the gray tree squirrels. Sure they plant walnuts or acorns in many of my pots, thats what they do. On the other hand we enjoy their antics as they chase each other around, pickup pieces of bread we through out for the birds, or watch them gather grass for their nests. It is easy to pull the sprouted nuts out of the pots, and in most cases their digging has not damaged what ever was in the pot. Calistoga Al

I enjoy watching the wildlife, too, but I don't enjoy watching squirrels bury golf ball size black walnuts in the little pots of bonsai trees I've nursed for as long as 25 years. They're very destructive and I'm very protective, which is a readymade conflict waiting to be made manifest.

Al

I have had to move all my plants favored by deer into an enclosed area to have them survive, but that is the cost of living in 6 acres of woodland. We now have a resident fox which visits every evening about dusk. He is fond of the cores of apples he finds which the birds have not eaten. Calistoga Al