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"Tell them they'll need to put a fine net over the pond if moving their plasmo-Herron around doesn't work." That is just what my neighbour has done. Each square is a half an inch across. Big enough for the flaky fish food to drop through. Last week there was thick ice over the pond; clear enough to see the fish swimming about beneath it. Not too many genets in Bournemouth, but plenty of foxes, and a few squirrels, and loads of cats. I saw recently on TV about Horace Walpole who kept in one of his houses a few goldfish in a deep china vase about a foot or more across. One day the "much loved family cat" fancied a snack. It got in, but could not get out again, and was found drowned. From that came Thomas Gray'sThe plaster Heron approach doesn't work unless you move it every couple of days. We had a Heron sit atop our tallest tree weighing up our plasmo-Heron very intently. But after we started moving it regularly it has never come back. Our issue is snakes and a particularly persistent Kingfisher. Fortunately the Koi and Goldfish are too big for the Kingfisher now so it contents itself with the pond fish which breed like b*ggery anyway! My concern is more the snakes, foxes and the occasional Genet, the wild boar can't get past the fence!
Tell them they'll need to put a fine net over the pond if moving their plasmo-Herron around doesn't work.