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 Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tip of the Day Categories » Landscaping and Gardening

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Plant Pet Protection

Do your pets tear up the garden, ruin flowers, and destroy shrubbery too? Today you'll learn how to set up a counter offensive--odor, that is--that'll keep 'em at bay! Here's how: from deep within the Carey Brothers vault of sniffing out trouble, we bring ways to deter Fido and Fluffy. Indeed, it says here that when dogs and cats are a 'horticultural' pain in the nuisance, you can often keep them away by burying a few empty soda or beer bottles in the soil so their tops are level with the ground. Fill them with a 'stinky' mixture of two parts ammonia and one part water, and as it slowly evaporates and wafts its way to their sensitive nostrils, pets will notice that it smells a bit like urine and will seek out ?new? territory to ?mark.? Just remember to re-fill your decoys from time to time, or pets (like Arnold) will say ?I'll be back!?

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