Physical Risk Management

As of this weekend, we have gates to keep Graham out of front yard. And I put spare fencing in the gap between the shed and the neighbor's fence to keep him from slipping out into parking lot behind next door neighbor. And we put up netting to keep deer out of back yard.
And have planned but not planted shrubs to block our view of:

a. Plumbing trucks across fence in rear of back yard
b. Back porch of house next door (10 ft)

Our backyard is becoming progressively more hemmed in and aestheticized. A mini-fortress, controlling ingress and egress. Like the mysterious white dog that's been eating our compost. Not like the great forest onto which my yards backed when I was a kid. With all them wild dogs running round.

And what of with the groundhogs beneath the shed? Will they be trapped in? Will they be forced to eat all of Mary's plants? Not bloody likely, the little tunnelers. More likely they'll be even safer from predators.