Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

You can let tame lox and wolves run around inside your base. They will attack mobs that attack your base.

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Lox the very epitome of bull in china shop. An angry lox in your base is going to be, uhhh, interesting.

Yeah, seeing as how loxes groundslam half the time, I'll pass.
I also don't have any mountains on my island, so wolves are also a no-go.

Meanwhile I put a bunch of torches, campfires, and workbenches out in the forest surrounding my house, further out from the wards. Checked back the next day and a bunch of them were broken and the mobs went further in to whack at the wards again.