How to Keep Dogs Out of Your Yard
If the neighborhood dogs are coming into your yard and causing damage, there are a few steps you can take - short of calling Animal Control.
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Place one gallon plastic milk jugs filled with water around the perimeter of your property. This folk remedy works more often than not.
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Stop using fish emulsion fertilizer, bone meal and blood meal. Dogs, cats, raccoons and skunks are attracted by the scent of these organic products. If you use them in your yard, cover the scent with a bitter apple spray like that sold at pet stores.
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Spread ground hot chile peppers over newly planted beds to prevent dogs and cats from digging. The capsicum (the chemical in the pepper that makes it hot) will deter most creatures from digging.
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Protect fragile individual plants by placing wire mesh around them.
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Tips & Warnings
The seeds from ground chile peppers may germinate into little pepper plants. If this happens, pull them out and toss them into your compost pile.
Build a stout fence around your property to exclude dogs, as a last resort.
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just4my
Feb 01, 2010
will the vinegar kill the grass? -
Nov 22, 2005
For cats that spray in one particular spot, you can (if it is legal in your municipality) pour male urine on that spot. This one works GREAT! Another remedy that you can use is the distribution of ammonia in a "hot spot" or around the perimeter of your yard. The smell will fade quickly, but the results will not. These two techniques mimic a new alpha male or a larger male cat marking their territory. Good Luck!
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Nov 22, 2005
Take a quick trip down to your local garden shop. Most will cary a variety of pest control products. The one that worked for me consisted of green menthol crystals. They are safe in your garden and disintigrate after a month with rainfall. Worked instantly on a VERY tenacious cat and he still hasn't come back after 6 months!
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Nov 22, 2005
When you fill the hole back up, try mixing big pieces of brick in with the dirt.
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Nov 22, 2005
Put vinegar in a spray bottle and spray it around your yard's perimeter. This should keep most dogs out.
