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How do you stop porcupines from chewing?
If you have a nuisance porcupine chewing up your tires, trees, outside furniture or yard tools, try Pest Rid spray to stop them. If this doesn’t work, live trap them or install some Yard Gards.
What smells do porcupines hate?
Predator Sprays Coyote or fox scent applied around your yard can help keep porcupines away, but it must be applied often.
How do you get rid of porcupines in your yard?
To get rid of a porcupine that has been in your yard for a too long, you must trap and remove the animal. The easiest form of trapping is with a cage trap. Bait the trap with salted meat (porcupines love salt!) and place the device near the area you’ve seen the animal.
Why do porcupines chew on houses?
“Porcupines chew on all kinds of things… either to sharpen their teeth or because of some attraction in the glue, paint, sweat or whatever is on what they decide to chew on. Siding is usually attacked because of the bonding glue in plywood.
What’s the best way to get rid of porcupines?
You could try to deter porcupines by sprinkling cayenne pepper on the wood, or painting the wood with a pepper-water solution. You’d need to reapply this every time it rained, though. Other options may work—distracting the porcupines with a salt lick, or startling them with random,…
What can a porcupine eat out of plywood?
It’s not easy. Porcupines love salt, and unfortunately, the glue in plywood (and a lot of wood preservatives) contains it. Along with wooden buildings, porkies also enjoy the salt in fence posts coated in creosote, on car tires and radiator hoses, and from objects covered in human sweat (tool handles, clothes, and leather).
What kind of food does a porcupine eat?
Along with wooden buildings, porkies also enjoy the salt in fence posts coated in creosote, on car tires and radiator hoses, and from objects covered in human sweat (tool handles, clothes, and leather). Yummy! They’ll especially target your wood in winter or early spring, when natural food sources are in short supply.
How tall can a tree be to keep a porcupine from eating it?
First, use it on any tree you want to keep from being eaten. Simply treat the trunk from the ground up to at least 6 feet high. Be sure to go all the way around the tree. The following evening when the feeding porcupine arrives it will quickly find the tree to be something it won’t be able to climb.