We live in Palos Verdes (suburban Los Angeles) and have some mysterious animal pulling freshly planted, small tomato plants out of the ground at night. It is not eating the plants, but for some reason, pulls them out of the ground and leaves them there.
Being that it is nocturnal, I could guess at an opossum or a raccoon, but I have no idea why it would pull plants. I thought maybe an opossum looking for snails, but it keeps returning and pulling out the same plants about every other night.
We put bird netting over them, but it apparently got under the netting and pulled them out again last night.
Any ideas of what strange beast we have lurking here at night?