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[Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>]

The biggest pest to my blueberries (and strawberries) is a three-year-old Walker's coon hound. He loves the ripe and semi-ripe berries and can pick them off the branches without even disturbing a leaf. SWMBO won't let me kennel him in a corner of the yard, so I just have to wait until the blueberries out grow him. I've never tried fox urine, but there is enough dog urine around that I would think it had the same effect. None.

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From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:00:12 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fox urine

Get a wire live trap like hav-a-heart.  Depending on the size you'll
easily trap all the rodents in your yard. Submerge the trap and
occupant in a tub of water to exterminate. Foxes do eat fruit.
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From: list@ginda.us
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fox urine
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 7:40:18 -0400

>Last year I had a fox who hung around a lot and marked his territory,
>which included all of my backyard, specifically including a row of
>blueberries. 
>
>I've never harvested a smaller fraction of the blueberry crop.  I
>think the primary critter eating the blueberries was chipmunks, not
>rats or squirrels, but I'm pretty dubious about the efficacy of fox
>urine to do more than tell other foxes ho lives there. 
>
>This year I put a lot of work into the fence around the blueberries.
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>Ginda
>
> ..... Original Message .......
>On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:40:11 -0400 Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>Fox urine is one of many squirrel repellents I've wasted money
>on.  I found it rather repulsive but my squirrels aren't so
>squeamish.  They like their green peaches and pears spicy too, so
>you can forget pepper.  I've found them quite repelled by buck-shot
>and moderately repelled by tangle trap and netting, but not reliably
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