oh yeah and...what "idiot" has never climbed a fence...say me and my friends are making a plan to get your crop this weekend, and you do put up a fence...we probaly would have gotten close enough to scope out your house during the week without you knowing and made a plan...the fence you payed money for is 8 feet high, then we all wear our best nike's..you get a dog, we all thawed out some steak...your crops= my lungs...sorry dude, i would say the cheapest and best way to go for the mean time is definitly motion detectors and probaly a cheap camera set form tigerdirect, the cameras would atleast give them some more fear...i say those things because you already said even though you own a gun your not the type of person to approach them...