txswanie Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Ok I am really sorry for asking this but I was curious. Has anyone heard of peeing in the garden to scare off the foxes. Some people swear by it and I was wondering if it also worked on coyotes. I can just imagine the response I would get from dear hubby if I asked him to go outside and have a wee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 It is supposed to deter foxes, but I have no idea whether it would work for coyotes. There is nothing so exotic to worry about in Sheffield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macfoy Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Local foxes will 'know' the smells of the residents in the house and will only be wary of unknown smells, so to get the weeing in the garden to work would mean getting a regular supply of urine from different males.....perhaps you could accost them as they pass by and offer a bottle (sorry) I think it's just a old wives tale which ought to work but in reality foxes aren't so stupid.......would Coyotes be any different? More likely to be worth a try and keep you out of the suspicions of the local cops would be to use an old battery radio....hung up, protected from the weather and permanently on and tuned to a talk show on your vulnerable boundary. Humans talking would be more of a deterrent to a wild country animal, I'm afraid urban foxes would probably just sit and listen to it . Keep moving the radio about, voices coming from the same direction would get them circumnavigating it. Macfoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honorandkit Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I read about the urine thing - my 4 year old son would happily oblige...and not just around the henhouse either! I've also read that human hair keeps foxes away - put it in a string bag and hang it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jomeena Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 I was told this worked but took ages to get OH to agree ( then only in a bottle ) garden didnt smell good and the foxes peed over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss_spent Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 took ages to get OH to agree ( then only in a bottle ) My OH thinks it is great that he doesn't have to go upstairs all the time! Only trouble is we have a wire fench at the bottom of the garden so people can see him - we have to be selective about when he does it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael_farnsworth Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Even if it doesn't deter foxes, all that nitrogen is good for the garden and/or the compost heap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 We were getting a fox daily in the garden and then I read about this tip. We gave it a go and I haven't seen a fox since. I think they're still visiting the garden, I'm sure I heard cubs the other night, but men peeing in the garden has at least made them wary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welovemarmite Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 go to the zoo and ask them for some lion dung... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael_farnsworth Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 You can get it from some garden centres too - I think it's called Silent Roar... I gave someone over the road a load of chicken poop this morning - he wants to see if it works as well or better than proprietary chicken pellets (I think it may also be a ruse to convince his wife to let him keep chickens too - "look dear! Cheap eggs *and* cheap fertiliser!") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
