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Let me elaborate a little bit. The first two ripe strawberries in my garden disappeared completely. I wanted to let them get a day more of sun before I planned to get them. Today they were gone! All two of them. Completely. They were clipped off completely with stem. Not cut but pinched or such. I have recently seen the following life forms in my back yard: cats, my dog (he eats fruit), an opossum, squirrels, woodpeckers, robins, other birds, my neighbors, the neighbors’ kids, my wife (who swears it wasn’t her and it doesn’t make sense because we had a fridge full of strawberries from the market), the FedEx delivery guy, insects of all sorts, and that’s about all I can think of right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry about the two strawberries, I had a fridge full of bought ones. But it was the first two, the ones you wait for all spring. You see some blossoms, hope for some bees and then see the first fruit, and the water the plant nicely to see the fruit grow, and then it disappears. Had it been the 3rd and 4th fruit, I wouldn’t care. Anyway, here’s the question. Would any of these animals clip off the whole fruit? Birds would probably just pick on them. I could see my dog biting off the whole thing? Should I suspect some of my fellow humans? Please share your thoughts. Thanks.