Works-For-Me Wednesday: The Backwards Edition
I need suggestions on how to keep nasty little neighborhood pooping machines (dogs) out of my garden. Fence is not an option. Help Please? I spread the black pepper stuff around (Critter Ridder), but then our cat walked right over it without batting an eye...
Is there anything I can plant or spread around that doesn't cost so much? This can of stuff was $12 for a month-long application.
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I wish someone had posted so that I could use the tip as well! LOL
Sorry I don't have any advice for you. Good luck! I feel your pain! Actually, we have more problems with cats (I see you own one, but when it's not your own, it a bother LOL), but the occasional dog does come around.
If its a small area, try leaving rose bush prunings around the area, the thorns are sharp & pups may not like stepping on them. (neither will you or your kids though)
Funny, I have way more problems with cats pooping in my garden....
I have the same problems. I have a cat, dog, goats, ducks, chickens and four kids, and they don't get in other people's yards, but for some reason I'm supposed to welcome the neighborhood dogs, cats (and yes, a rooster, too). What is THAT?!
My main worries are a dog coming in and getting in a fight with our Ellie (she's protective and would fight to keep us 'safe'), and the whole cats pooping in our sandbox thing. And I don't want anything after our smaller critters, either.
That said, I can't just put down thorns or chemicals, because it'd hurt our kids/kritters.
So I got an airsoft shotgun. You just load little bitty metal thangs in it, pump it up (like a child's toy shotgun, only no kid could pump these guns), aim, and ping the wayward critter in the hiney-tushie. Viola! Critter runs home, and knows coming over will get them a plink in the pants. It's great for target practice, won't actually kill the critter (unless you pump the gun up really tight)... and there are even plastic/rubber pellets you can shoot in it.
Now if anyone has ideas for getting rid of snakes... I'm hoping (as this will be our first summer as official small livestock owners) that the chickens/goats, and ducks (and dog) will scare them away, but the past two years, we've found at least three snakes every day in the yard (or in the pole barn). Blech!
BTW, love your site!
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