[SustainableTompkins] deer repellents: waste stream thread

[Margaret McCasland]

I know fox urine is sold commercially as a deterrent.  I also know 
that hungry deer get bold and will ignore LOTS of things (like shiny 
pie plates, Irish Spring soap bars, etc), jump high fences, eat what 
they are not supposed to like, etc.

 From some research I did in the past, I was told that the only 
consistently good repellent is having dogs in your yard.


>hmmmmm....could be an old "husbands" tale or might be true. Hoping we get
>some responses from those more knowledgeable on the list.
>tony
>
>On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Thomas Shelley <tjs1 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>>   At 08:35 AM 2/29/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>  And doesn't it keep deer out of the garden as well??
>>
>>
>>  Hi, Tony.  Gee, I dunno, but if it did this would certainly be a good
>>  thing for the rural gardener.  Any references on this use?  I would bet that
>>  mountain lion piss would work really well!  Take care. Tom
>>
>>   Tom Shelley
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>>  "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the
>>  present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
>>  own needs."
>>
>>  The World Commission on Environment and Development,
>>  Gro Harlem Brundtland
>>  *Our Common Future,* Oxford University Press, 1987
>>
>>   MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does *not *mean "sustainable growth" as
>>  growth *per se *is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to
>>  mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).
>>
>>  "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux
>>  proverb
>>
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