Well, I never heard of using bobcat urine but I have a friend who pours her
own (in a suitable containers) down holes in her garden to keep the rats
from eating up her veggies from underground. It also works on moles. Maybe
it's not that the urine scares them as it is distaste for sharing living
space with people who fling urine around indiscriminately.
Rahne
rahne at mindspring.com
Federal Way
"All the creeds that wind and wind
when just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
----- Original Message -----
From: Marguerite Bevis <mfly.bevis at worldnet.att.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:31 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: rat baiting


> I knew someone would ask. I have no idea where you would get a bottle of
> Bobcat urine or how one would obtain such a substance. (Do you say, "Just
> fill this container, Mr.. Bobcat?") Someone had given my friend his
bottle
> as a gag gift and he just hadn't thrown it away. It was an experiment and
> it worked. I will say that it is not a practical rat/mouse deterrent
since
> the odor is repugnant to humans as well as rodents.
>
> However, after my friend & his bottle left, I inherited an orphaned kitten
> which I determined to keep inside because of my love for watching my
> feathered friends outside and my abhorrence of feral cats.
>
> Interestingly, although I never saw the cat catch a mouse, it seems that
> merely his presence drove the mice away. I guess that is an argument for
> inside cats.
>
> By the way, if Mr.. Leno decides to pay somebody, I get dibs!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Rosso <jrosso at mediaseek.com>
> To: Marguerite Bevis <mfly.bevis at worldnet.att.net>;
> tweeters at u.washington.edu <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: rat baiting
>
>
> >OK, I gotta ask. Where does one get a bottle of Bobcat urine? I mean the
> >questions abound. How do you convince a bobcat that it wants to be
checked
> >for drug use? How does a bobcat get it into a bottle? Does this guy have
an
> >extra supply since I'm fresh out?
> >
> >On a more serious note, I would assume that those housebound mice had
never
> >smelled a bobcat before, so I wonder what reservoir of instinct caused
them
> >to say, "Oh, shucks, I smell the urine of a bobcat, we better leave!" (I
> >have been told that mice are very careful with their language even when
> >confronted with a smelly bobcat. This is one of those surprises that
just
> >brightens up a day.
> >
> >How much would Jay Leno pay for this story?
> >
> >At 12:55 PM 6/15/99 -0700, Marguerite Bevis wrote:
> >>Hi John,
> >>
> >>I had an interesting experience in a country house in Texas which had a
> lot
> >>of mice. A friend of mine had a bottle of Bobcat urine, of all things
and
> >>sprinkled small drops gingerly around the house. The mice disappeared.
> Go
> >>figure.
> >
> >Jim Rosso
> >Issaquah, Washington
> >425-392-8440
> >jrosso at mediaseek.com
>
>