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To 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. . . ):
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.

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Date: 2011-11-10 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com
I wish my tree-huggy inner hippie would stop needling me to ask the method by which the coyote urine was collected.

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Date: 2011-11-11 12:13 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com
Of course, thinking about this question leads to all sorts of weird thoughts, many of them including "Beep-beep!"

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Date: 2011-11-10 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icecreamempress.livejournal.com
Hey, you're a bartender...

KIDDING

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Date: 2011-11-10 11:56 pm (UTC)
ext_12246: (clef)
From: [identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com
Yeah, I know the jingle. It must've been around in the fifties, too, at least as a nostalgium. Either that, or my music memory goes back at least a couple of years earlier in my life than I would've thought possible.

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Date: 2011-11-11 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
Well, the original version was written in 1940, but only the first couplet and the tune were the same -- "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, twelve full ounces -- that's a lot". Originally, the second couplet was, "Twice as much for a nickel, too; Pepsi-Cola's the drink for you."

In 1949, the second couplet was changed to the one that I know from the Old Time Radio shows I've been listening to -- and now I'm blanking on the exact phrasing of the first half of it. Something like, "It is better than all the rest; why take less when Pepsi's best?"

Here's the original; I've not found the 1950s version, though. . .



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Date: 2011-11-11 03:03 am (UTC)
ext_12246: (clef)
From: [identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com
Well, this is the one I remember-- the second version in this audio, not the first. And I was thinking a somewhat different tune for the first couplet, though exactly spot-on for the second. So maybe I heard it on replays of classic radio shows?

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Date: 2011-11-11 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebmommy.livejournal.com
mmmm... coyote urine - oops, I mean "Pepsi-Cola"

Dad and I might be able to use the rest of your coyote urine to keep deer off our arborvitae - do you know if it keeps deer away, as well as racoons and squirrels?

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Date: 2011-11-11 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
Yep, for deer, you can use either coyote or mountain lion.

The question I'd have to look up is whether coyote urine repels or attracts coyotes . . .

Lis thought you LIKED deer, though?

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Date: 2011-11-11 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebmommy.livejournal.com
I do like deer, but not that close to the house and not eating my expensive bushes.

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Date: 2011-11-11 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebmommy.livejournal.com
and good thought about attracting coyotes -

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Date: 2011-11-11 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] felis-sidus.livejournal.com
I'd think that mountan lion urine would repel both deer and coyotes. Presumably, attracting a mountain lion wouldn't be as likely around here as attracting coyotes would be.

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Date: 2011-11-11 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
Actually, they suggest wolf pee for repelling coyotes. But, yeah, mountain lion also works for deer.

The thing is, we already HAVE the coyote urine.

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