It doesn’t matter whether you have spent hours tidying up your yard, trying to make it look its best, all it takes is one animal to get past your fence and make a mess of it. From rabbits and moles to cats, dogs, and deer, all kinds of little fellas could enter your yard and do some damage to your property. For that very reason, you need to properly protect your space to keep yourself and your valuable possessions safe and intact. The goal here is not to harm animals, but just to keep them out of your space, so your hard work doesn’t go to waste.
The first step to having an animal-free yard is determining the kind of animal that’s most likely to get in or is already making a mess out of your outdoor space so you can get the right outdoor animal repeller. For rodents, large holes and dirt mounds are the usual indicators. Deer prefer the tender parts of plants like leaves, buds, and young stems – you’ll be able to find their bite marks about a meter or two from the ground. On the other hand, rabbits can be easily recognized by the perfectly angled cuts they make on the end of the stems and leaves at about up to a meter from the ground.
Furthermore, groundhogs will chew any wood that gets in their way, so they can sharpen their teeth while also leaving some large holes and dirt mounds behind them. Raccoons don’t make a lot of damage – just a bit of a mess when it comes to garbage cans, but on the flip side squirrels and chipmunks despite being the smallest, are the worst animal that can enter into your yard, because the squirrel can chew through siding and wood when seeking for shelter and chipmunks can dig burrows which can damage building foundations.
To most effectively repel animals without any chemicals whatsoever, you’d want to get your hands on electronic outdoor animal repellers because they are efficient 24/7. They are divided into three categories: motion activated, ultrasonic repellents and wireless fence posts. The motion-activated repellents use bursts of water to startle and scare away a large variety of animals, while the ultrasonic repellent is especially used for rodents because they emit a high pitched sound, which can only be heard by these little rascals. With wireless defense posts, you can target deer only. They are similar to the covered repelling stations as they too spread a similar smell in the air but in this case, to lure them towards the electrodes, so that it scares the animal with a static shock, enough for it to run away.
The most basic solution against critters are liquid repellents, as they are easy to use and can target a specific area of flowers, trees, shrubs, bulbs, and mulch. If rodents are making your yard look like an unused graveyard, then granular repellents are going to prevent them from doing so, if you put some on crawl spaces, burrows, gardens, barns, and flowerbeds. To fend off deer that are coming to your property, you will need the so-called ‘covered repelling stations’ that permeate a scent which will deter the animal, preventing it from making any damage to your fence, trees or flower pots.
