Posted By: _fletch_
Critters around blood and bone meal - 06/01/16 11:43 PM
So I have a client that loves gardening, and has a backyard full of flowers and plants. It's turned out to be quite the wildlife sanctuary, lol. So they've had problem animals before, but this year they decided to use bone and blood meal as a deterrent for planting and potting of plants. I was not familiar with it, so I researched it, and it is sold as a critter deterrent, but this has had quite the opposite effect. Something is digging feverishly through her gardens, turning over pots, and even toppled every potted plant on a ladder type display. I went by there this morning, and there's a lot of uprooted plants, as well as golf ball sized holes. I was thinking skunk or raccoon, and then I found the scat pictured below. I guess it makes sense that a carnivore would be attracted to a slaughter house by-product. Anyone have any experience with bone or blood meal? I went ahead and set a couple traps with sweet bait for skunk/raccoon this afternoon.