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Things that I now own.
Nov. 10th, 2011 02:12 pmTo the tune of the 1940s Pepsi-Cola jingle (I'm assuming here that most people on my friends list are either old enough to have heard it on the radio originally, or listen to enough old-time radio to have heard it, or have heard people randomly singing it. . . ):
There's no way I need all twelve ounces of coyote urine. I think I'll be able to scare off any raccoons around with no more than two ounces. If anyone else wants some, feel free to let me know, and I'll let you have the rest of it.
It doesn't actually smell all that bad. Very musky and powerful, of course, but, as long as its outside and not highly concentrated, it's not particularly gross-smelling. I think that I could probably learn to identify it in the wild -- I've been trying to teach myself the difference between, for instance, fox musk and skunk musk. (I mean, not skunk SPRAY, which smells different, but just the usual "a skunk lives in this general vicinity" smell).
It's true that human noses aren't as powerful as, say, dog noses, but cat noses are only twice as good as human noses, and their vomeronasal organ bumps that up to only fourteen times as powerful. Now that SOUNDS like a lot, but, in practice, I can smell pretty much what my cats can. I'm sure they have to concentrate less to do so, and I'm sure they've got a lot more detail than I do, but still, the human sense of smell isn't AS stunted as we're taught to believe. I mean, humans CAN tell the difference between different animal marking scents, and can get some sort of general sense of the state of health of other humans by smell. It's just that we usually don't practice doing so, since it's not our strong suit, and we can accomplish much of the same sort of thing easier using other senses.
Coyote urine marks the spot!
Twelve full ounces, that's a lot.
Drives off more critters than all the rest
Why take less when urine's best?
There's no way I need all twelve ounces of coyote urine. I think I'll be able to scare off any raccoons around with no more than two ounces. If anyone else wants some, feel free to let me know, and I'll let you have the rest of it.
It doesn't actually smell all that bad. Very musky and powerful, of course, but, as long as its outside and not highly concentrated, it's not particularly gross-smelling. I think that I could probably learn to identify it in the wild -- I've been trying to teach myself the difference between, for instance, fox musk and skunk musk. (I mean, not skunk SPRAY, which smells different, but just the usual "a skunk lives in this general vicinity" smell).
It's true that human noses aren't as powerful as, say, dog noses, but cat noses are only twice as good as human noses, and their vomeronasal organ bumps that up to only fourteen times as powerful. Now that SOUNDS like a lot, but, in practice, I can smell pretty much what my cats can. I'm sure they have to concentrate less to do so, and I'm sure they've got a lot more detail than I do, but still, the human sense of smell isn't AS stunted as we're taught to believe. I mean, humans CAN tell the difference between different animal marking scents, and can get some sort of general sense of the state of health of other humans by smell. It's just that we usually don't practice doing so, since it's not our strong suit, and we can accomplish much of the same sort of thing easier using other senses.