Dogs are better than every remedy named here combined. Coons,deer,wild hogs,tresspassers,you name it. We have them all in Tx and grow anything we chose without wildlife damage,and dogs took care of a few 2 legged varmits over the years. It doen't need to be any larger than 20 pounds to chase most things off. Presently I have a 14 pound terrier lap dog that keep's most things away from the house and alerts me in case intruder want's to linger. Three years ago I started hearing coyotes close to the house so I barrowed my son's hound mix dogs for a month. When I heard yotes within 1/2 mile I let hounds out and qued the Terrier something needed chasing. She ran off barking in the direction I indicated and hounds went with her. She turned back as she always does and the hounds ran aways farthar before coming back. Couple nights later I heard yotes again but instead of alerting my little terrier,I put all the dogs in my utility vehicle and drove to where the yotes had been yelping. I alerted the dogs and sure enough the hounds found fresh scent and took off on the trail. The yotes soon lost them so I drove to pick them up where I heard them cold trailing. It was near a week later that a lone yote howled. I alerted the dogs and jumped in the utility machine in hope of leading them to where I fihured he was. They never found a trail but did plenty barking while trying. I haven't heard a yote nearby since. Those were the first since my 50 pound mute dies over 5 years ago.
