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Edit: Something has been destroying my seedlings past the size the snails usually go for them.

All the marigolds and some of the sunflowers in the dust bowl got stripped to sticks or straight up eaten. I traitorously wondered if the bird bros did it.

Then very early yesterday morning something got one of the pumpkin seedlings. I wondered, possum or cat? I put a protective milk crate over the spare I replanted in its place.

But then I found the moment on the camera and while I can’t see what the animal was I saw the seedling bend and dip as if something pulled it down. It could have bent under the weight of a very big snail crawling up the stem but it doesn’t look like snail damage. It was stripped too thoroughly and quickly, yanked down too fast.

Honestly I’m thinking rats.