Karen, I loved those cows! We've never had cows..I love Arizona, but you can keep your wildlife.

A few years ago, we had construction done on our house...lots of digging to put up a deck. There were snakes and other animals uprooted. One day after the construction, I went down to the basement and this giant rat stopped dead in its tracks and looked me up and down. I called the exterminator and we found out that he and his buddies had eaten through our cement walls...it was a family of burrow rats. We haven't seen them since the exterminator came.

Then, we've had our fun with squirrels...they climed over the wires to our roof and ate a hole in the roof and moved in. After 6 months of traps and mothballs, one way out exit doors, we lost a garage door when they tried to find their way back in through another entry and ate a hole in our garage wall to go back to the attic. We finally resorted to witness relocation and moved the family to the Bronx. They haven't been back.

Then there are the deer...the deer who destroyed all of my landscaping...and the bunnies....and the groundhogs...and the bats

However, the hummingbirds and monarch butterflies in the butterfly garden are very special...and our blue jays and robins...