I ALWAYS walk my fence line and just kind of scope out the yard befroe I allow my babies to join me in my back yard. My family has often accused me of being totally over the top with this....and I may be, but it has paid off on several occasions that I am AWARE or...when my neighbors hoodlum 18 year old son with a 6 page rap sheet, got angry when I called the police about him shooting at passing cars from his upstairs bedroom window (hopefully it was a BB gun!), so he threw fishing hooks over my fence into my yard for my babies to get caught up in....and there was the morning I walked around the side of the house to start my fenceline walk, and came nose to nose with a bob cat, resting on the top of my 8 foot wooden fence....I am happy I can realize the dangers as they have presented themselves, and I do not listen to ANYONE about "being over the top"!!! |