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Mine is "GET OUT OF THAT POT!"
Almost 18 acres they can explore if they want and they prefer my potted plants for digging and dust bathing. I need to go cut out some chickenwire circles to put around the grapes. I picked up two of the little metal chicks from CR at the show and put them in with my lemon verbena. It's stopped the big hole they were trying to dig and the plant is doing better again.
Oh! Dealing with chickens and dogs. "Quit eating that!" and "You better not be rolling in chicken poop over there!"
They go roll where the deer and elk pee and poop too. So disgusting.
The dogs bring dead stuff back and leave it at the back door. Nothing they have outside is allowed inside so they drop it right by the door so they can get it when they come back out. The chickens help themselves to whatever they think looks good. Dogs will come back out and be looking for what they know they left right there.
Another for chickens: "DO I NEED TO GET THE HOSE?!"
My young ones have been wreaking havoc on the garden we're trying to fix up in the back. They half dig up day lilies and rhododendrons and move to the hostas to shred the leaves. Once, when I caught them shredding the hostas, I got the hose and said "HOSTA LA VISTA, BABY!!" as I sprayed them.
We put bricks around the bases of vulnerable plants so that we don't lose everything to those pests.
I have put rocks and/or bricks around anything I plant out back for a year or two.