(not a joke… seriously)
You’ve probably bought weird things in the past, but I am now budgeting to buy Fox Urine on a regular basis.
The story isn’t near as interesting as the post title, but it’s been on my mind a lot lately.
My house is close to the edge of town and backs up to a yet undeveloped city park, and over the winter I had a rabbit infestation. There were times that I would flip on my backyard light and see over a dozen of these little critters jumping around my grass. It’s caused a lot of problems.
Last summer, I had a perfect backyard. My dog and I would play ball and roll around in the grass. I could walk barefoot around the entire yard with no problem.
But all of these rabbits have been running around in the wild getting all sorts of week seeds in their coat. They also eat all sorts of plants, seeds included. But the seeds don’t digest very well. So every time they take a little bunny hop, seeds fall out of their fur. Every time they crap (and the crap a LOT), they leave seeds behind covered in their own fertilizer coating.
This summer, I haven’t walked outside barefoot because I have no desire to step on weeds – some of them are a little prickly – not to mention the rabbit pellets they have left for me. My dog doesn’t want to play ball, and instead runs around the fence with her nose to the ground. She’d love to catch a yummy rabbit. It’s unfortunate that we are enjoying the yard much less so far this season.
Basically, if I was six inches tall, my backyard would be a scary jungle rainforest. It would be a horror version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
After talking with a few people, I learned that I could sprinkle my yard with fox urine the natural instincts of the rabbits would take over and fear of being fox lunch would keep them away. So a month ago I made a trip to the feed store and picked up a bottle.
The stuff stinks. It is worse than six hours after eating asparagus. But I got through it and sprinkled it in the half-dozen places where I have seen rabbits coming under my fence.
It worked immediately.
I haven’t seen a single rabbit since my fox urination. So I’ve added fox urine to my periodic shopping list for yard care. You can find it here for $25.99 per bottle. I’m planning on putting it down about once per month because rain and sprinklers will eventually wash it away, and based on my first use I expect to need a new bottle after every three uses or so.
So that’s about $100 a year for fox urine. But that’s cheaper than re-weeding each year to the extent that I am doing now.
Currently I’m putting down weed-n-feed to begin nursing my yard back to health. Maybe by mid-summer my dog and I can begin enjoying the back yard again. Here are a few pics of the dog from last summer. See how nice the grass was:
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