High holding hair spray is what I recommend esp when removing a single cane if it's the time/s of year when the mite populations surge. For my garden I have a good binoc microscope and I do check for active populations of 'bugs' in a loose sense on the newer growing tips. If the rose were close to multiflora in pedigree I'd be even more cautious as the mites really reproduce prolifically on growing tips of R. multiflora.

Thank you all! I appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers. I'm sure DH feels better just having gone. Kinda stinks to get old...and you KNOW how old you're getting when the doctors are all so young! :-)

thanks for asking plan of action now is no LP for now (yay) sending me to an opthamologist to check my sight and any possible ' muscular/ macular???? problems (I was just gonna go to walmart) Then he wrote me a script and gonna try taking folic acid and magnesium supplements to possible slow my jumpy reflexes and possible that could stop this muscle tightening thing thats happening. Also I put to him that maybe this is the "flu and a broken leg" where my facial symptoms might be unrelated to my arm so he is now gonna check for carpel tunnel or other conductive problmes in my arm. in other words another test at the hospital... so gonna do these things and see if I get some improvement. hi ho hi ho LOL

wanton - that article was interesting, particularly re noting their ability to quickly adapt to new environments. I went through DH's Flickr pictures looking at the history of 'our' coyotes.... The coyotes moved into the woodlot in late fall or early winter of 2013. In his comments on this picture from mid-Feb. 2014 - not one of 'our' pack - he refers to ours being nocturnal and only catching a brief glimpse of one. In this picture from August 2014, the female is quite comfortable lounging on the grass, outside the woodlot, in daylight, in an area where lots of people are present at times. In this picture from June 2015 you can see the collar on the male. It was collared in early October 2013 20 miles away. He had to cross Hwy 401 - one of the busiest highways in North America! - and other busy roads in order to get to the woodlot here. He was born in the spring of 2013. So they are smart, and grow up fast, and travel far! (The collar was supposed to automatically drop off within a year but obviously malfunctioned.) In this picture from July 2015 you can see that the female (who had 3 pups that spring) is comfortable napping in a parking spot outside a seniors' residence! Both the adults were casually strolling the neighbourhood and going into backyards. By the fall 2015, they all had mange - this picture is one of the pups. The Humane Society and a wildlife service was able to trap and treat the juveniles but, as far as we know, were not able to trap the adults. So it is probable that the coyotes currently in the woods are from last year's pups that were treated for mange. The original breeding pair are likely dead from mange. A few days before this picture was taken in early Feb. 2016, DH and Cole had the confrontation with a coyote in the backyard. That prompted us to build the fence extension. Certainly a determined coyote could still get over the fence but the fence should at least slow it down! Plus the extension part is likely to get knocked over as a coyote scrambled over it. Before we do out with a dog (no dog here goes out unsupervised now!) we look to see if the top of the fence looks intact.... Given the Russian experiments with domesticating foxes, beginning in 1959 (very interesting - lots of stuff on YouTube and Google...), we can only hope that eventually removing all aggressive coyotes might someday result in a 'kinder and gentler' coy-wolf :-)