Deer repellant?

[sourland]

There is a resident doe who thinks that everything around my house is part of her buffet. If it were not for the fact that she has fawns, she would be venison. I have tried a half dozen different commercial products with little success. "Marking" my territory only seems to make her laugh, plus the Princess refuses to eat the tomatoes. So far the best repellant is when I hang my days worth of sweaty, stinky, work clothes around the house. The Princess is like, "What will people think when they see your underwear hanging out there?" My reply, "Who cares, and at least they will know that I wear underwear." Anyone have repellant ideas that keeps these giant 'rats' away?

 

[zazouse]

Big rat calls for big cat and would take care of the deer too.

 

[KristyHall]

There is a resident doe who thinks that everything around my house is part of her buffet. If it were not for the fact that she has fawns, she would be venison. I have tried a half dozen different commercial products with little success. "Marking" my territory only seems to make her laugh, plus the Princess refuses to eat the tomatoes. So far the best repellant is when I hang my days worth of sweaty, stinky, work clothes around the house. The Princess is like, "What will people think when they see your underwear hanging out there?" My reply, "Who cares, and at least they will know that I wear underwear." Anyone have repellant ideas that keeps these giant 'rats' away?

I send my herding dog after them. In "Wooly Bear's" mind they're just live stock that need to fall in line. The deer do not appreciate this and no animal gets hurt.

If you don't want to deal with training a dog to chase them off, try a motion detecting water sprayer. It's like a regular lawn waterer, but it detects motion and sends a jet of water at the moving object.

It works great with kids cutting through your garden to " liberate" some of your veggies too.

 

[Bunnylady]

Zaz, are you calling Sour a rat?

 

[zazouse]

Not unless i miss read his post, he asked how to keep the giant rats away in his last post.

 

[Bunnylady]

Not unless i miss read his post, he asked how to keep the giant rats away in his last post.

Some people call deer "rats with antlers."

 

[KristyHall]

Some people call deer "rats with antlers."

I call them tasty

 

[redhen]

Big meanie Sour..
..wont share your veggies with the poor starving momma deer ..

 

[zazouse]

I call them tasty

Me 2 and i love baby deer the most YUM

 

[SillyChicken]

did you try soap?

http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/hortiscope/pests/deer.htm

this site has a lot of Q and A... maybe some of the ideas on here would help.