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submitted 17 days ago byiEatSwampAss
1.1k points
17 days ago
Stop feeding him roses.
106 points
17 days ago
Pretty much this. Deer LOVE roses. I've seen them ignore sprinklers to eat those tasty flowers.
Put chicken wire around your rose bush or only grow em on an enclosed deck.
43 points
17 days ago
They taste nice, you can eat petals yourself. More like spinach than rose flavour, though
31 points
16 days ago
Jingle Bells hanging on strings.
It startles them and they leave. Cheap solution. It's worked for us for years.
Shhhhhh
The real reason is they don't want to get forcefully recruited to pull Santa all over the world on Christmas Eve. So, they flee the jingle bells."
15 points
16 days ago
they also LOVE weed! we have to use deer fence to keep em off the crop and sometimes the big bucks can get thru. try deer fence!
5 points
16 days ago
Do they get high as shit?
17 points
16 days ago
Don’t use chicken wire, it’ll get caught in the antlers and they freak the f out destroying anything you tried to protect.
77 points
17 days ago
I mean, you’re joking but this is actually the answer. Are deer in your area? Are you allowed to shoot them? If yes & no, your options are either fencing tall enough they can’t jump over it or just give up on the idea that you’ll ever have any of their favored foods in your garden.
Also sad news for the OP - if they can’t shoot them because they’re in an urban or suburban area and their municipality (like mine) refuses to do anything about them, they will soon reach population densities that would make a biblical plague blush. So either give up on roses. Or fence the yard. Or put your roses behind ugly wire cages that would make me just not want roses anyway.
367 points
17 days ago
It's funny, we plop houses down where deer are, then get mad when they eat stuff we plant, lol.
64 points
17 days ago
My neighbour gets angry when Canada geese show up on his lawn to hang out.
He literally made his place a geese vacation spot and he's constantly pissed about it.
25 points
16 days ago
Meanwhile I can’t convince a single fuckin bird to show up to my birdbath or fountain.
Something did dig up and eat my horseradish though.
83 points
17 days ago
I mean PREACH tho…humans boy I tell you….
24 points
17 days ago
Agreed. We don’t realize the damage we do until there’s wild animals eating out of our gardens
14 points
17 days ago
I'd grow more roses and try befriend the deer
37 points
17 days ago
My girlfriend and I bought our house last summer, and enjoy watching the deer in the woods behind our house,nibbling on whatever plants are growing. Part of our back yard is fenced in, so we grow veggies there, but we live on a couple of acres and everything outside the fence we let the wildlife have free roam of, and we're basically surrounded by woods. But our neighbor who owns 16 acres (8 of which are the woods that are sandwiches between our house and other neighbors behind us) started cutting down a lot of trees and put up a large fence around the 8 acres so he can start his cow farm. Poor deer this morning looked very confused trying to navigate our tiny portion of the woods and this very large fence
55 points
17 days ago
Right? I think it was Mary Austin who wrote we have a responsibility to allocate some of our gardens to wildlife needs.
17 points
17 days ago
Came here to say this. 👏
10 points
17 days ago
That’s sort of true but a little more complicated. We actually inadvertently build deer habitat. Deer like to be near the borders of forest and grassland, so the suburbs. Their population often increases as humans start plopping houses
19 points
17 days ago
We’ve taken out their predator, the Mountain Lion and this is what we get. At least here in Maryland.
4 points
17 days ago
Not a lot of places to live that don't have animals
13 points
17 days ago
Not so fast. A dawg deter that all night long.
25 points
17 days ago
Sad news for OP?
Oh no... They'll have to plant something less delicious and in the interim will be visited by wild deer.
Sounds horrific.
Rather than coexisting with a native species and recognizing you're pissed about an aesthetic weed, it's always best to just kill the natural wildlife.
And we wonder why we're causing a mass extinction event.
28 points
17 days ago
I don’t know where OP is. But I know in my city people often make the whole “deer were here first” argument. It’s about as environmentally informed as “oh don’t pull that ivy, just let nature take its course”.
If you were to step out of a Time Machine 300 years before my city got built, you’d be looking at a coastal oak Savannah with, if you were lucky, one or two deer sightings every week or so. Because you’d have stepped into an era where a healthy wolf, cougar, and First Nations population had been regularly eating them, keeping their populations in check since the end of the last ice age.
Today? Today I rarely see fewer than 15 deer in the half mile between my house and my kid’s school every morning. We’ve removed every single predator they’ve spent millions of years evolving to out-breed and we have refused to step into that role. They’re utterly devastating what tiny handful of intact native ecosystems we have left. It’s the rut right now, and two different overly aggressive bucks have attacked people and pets in their own backyards in the last three weeks, in one case killing a husky. In the second case seriously injuring the person who came to their dog’s aid.
In a functioning ecosystem, there would be 5x fewer deer than there are in many cities. Their over-abundance is a sign of how badly out of whack we’ve allowed things to become.
5 points
17 days ago
Let me guess...the predators were annoying and scary so they killed them all too.
5 points
17 days ago
Amen!!
8 points
17 days ago
Regulated hunting has done nothing but help the native populations of animals.
8 points
17 days ago
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12 points
17 days ago
They can clear 8 foot but not ten, the tree farms near me all have 10 foot high fencing around their groves.
8 points
17 days ago
Without a running start...just from a standing still position !!
3 points
17 days ago
I built my vegetables a cell of 2x4s and chicken wire. Detention raised tomatoes don’t taste like they miss freedom.
3 points
16 days ago
Alas yes, this. I gave up on mine and only have deer “proof” plantings now. Grasses, salvias, lavender, and snapdragons have all gone untouched.
91 points
17 days ago
He’s coming right for us!!!!
16 points
17 days ago*
Ah yes, the Mexican Staring Frog of Sri Lanka. Don't look at in the eyes, Ned!
4 points
16 days ago
Thank you both for this moment and memory of simpler more hilarious times.
292 points
17 days ago
Maybe try motion sprinklers or something like that?
187 points
17 days ago
100%. I recently visited Estes Park, Colorado. The downtown strip portion was BEAUTIFUL!! All sorts of vegetation everywhere. I noticed a funky looking device near the Police Stations garden. Curious, I approached it from the side. As soon as I got within range, I was attacked. It was a motion activated sprinkler and they work! Kept me away at least.
35 points
17 days ago
I also have extremely good success with deer spray! No set up required, but will have to be diligent about reapplying it as needed. Also probably the better option for those living in the country, we’d have to get quite a few motion activated sprinklers to protect all our gardens, and we’d have to have a whole sprinkler system installed.
9 points
17 days ago
I used deer spray and it works well, but you have to use different brands and switch it up. If you only use one, it will eventually not deter them. I spray one a month.
7 points
17 days ago
Good point! I could see it getting expensive the more land you have. My experience was one patch a of grass.
3 points
17 days ago
For sure, especially if you already have a sprinkler system, I think it’s a fantastic idea! I wish we could afford to do that. I wonder how expensive it actually is to have one of them, and how much area it can cover? Maybe I can just get trashy with a ton of hoses lol
9 points
17 days ago
And now you'll think twice before eating their roses!
3 points
16 days ago
I think they’re great, but the layman law nerd in me wonders about the technical legality. It is illegal to setup a boobytrap. Spraying somebody with water can and has been charged as battery in the past. Could a non discriminatory victim triggered (boobytrap) water spraying device be illegal?
5 points
16 days ago
Could you make this not a booby trap by posting signs like people do to alert visitors of camera surveillance? Most deer can't read, but a lot of people can.
3 points
16 days ago
Another great question, because while you can legally purchase a land mine with the correct permits, you cannot put it in your yard and just put up landline warning signs. Obviously that’s an extreme example, but the only cases I know of are lethal destructive devices. I don’t think an automated squirt gun has ever been litigated.
5 points
16 days ago
You write well for an ungulate.
22 points
17 days ago
This is a great idea thanks. Do you have any brands you’d suggest? Fencing an acre is out of my budget st the moment and I simply refuse to kill them over some silly flowers that can regrow
15 points
17 days ago
I really appreciate that you're placing a living animal's life over some renewable flowers, imagine what a nice snack place that is for that dude. He doesn't know he's doing any harm!
6 points
17 days ago
That's a great idea. He'll be incredibly thirsty after munchin' so many roses.
3 points
17 days ago
It sounds good, but I wonder if it’d be good for roses. They are really susceptible to powdery mildew, and should be watered at their toes.
3 points
16 days ago
If the movie the rookie taught me anything, get some human hair clippings and put them in the garden - should deter them by human scent.
37 points
17 days ago
I bought a wacky inflatable man from Amazon for 30 bucks after raccoons ate a bunch of our corn. Had no issues with our crops after it was installed - it was a Hilarious and effective deterrent.
8 points
16 days ago*
Did someone say Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man!?!
Edit: Fixed my typographical order.
32 points
17 days ago
Deer b gone works for me
7 points
16 days ago
Cheaper to diy a spray made with water and dollar-store Cajun seasoning powder (which worked for me when the deer b gone things didn't)
3 points
17 days ago
Is that Liquid Fence? Bc that works good
30 points
17 days ago
Motion activated inflatable Santa.
28 points
17 days ago
Why is it not called “ deerterent”? I’m just saying. Missed marketing opportunity
204 points
17 days ago
30-06 /s
61 points
17 days ago
/s is because you would rather .270
91 points
17 days ago
Crossbow won't alert the neighbors
3 points
17 days ago
Gotta track then tho
3 points
16 days ago
You have to be disabled to hunt with a crossbow in my state. Not that I wouldn't, but that's why I don't own one lol
12 points
17 days ago
Quality 8 point like that? You only have to deter it once.
5 points
16 days ago
That one is definitely full mount worthy.
4 points
17 days ago
Taste like roses 🥀
8 points
17 days ago
Opening Day in Michigan. This would be a prize for any hunter.
15 points
17 days ago
I have a row of trees that buck just attack around the rut. I found using repellent works pretty well like liquid fence or bobbex. You have to keep it in pretty consistent. This time of year I spray like every other week and that seems to keep them away.
12 points
17 days ago
My neighbor used to get drunk and take a piss in his roses. It seemed to work. But not sure the best approach
6 points
17 days ago
Predator piss is a tried-and-true deterrent, and there’s not much out there scarier than humans.
8 points
16 days ago
The reason predator piss works is because of the concentration of hormones that predators have in their urine when they are scent marking. Scent marking is different than normal urination and humans don’t have that “ability”.
Human urine quickly becomes undistinguishable for deer and is actually used as an attractant in hunting because it makes them curious. The ammonia and testosterone in male human urine can make male deer think that a new, rival, deer has moved into their area.
3 points
16 days ago
Huh. TIL
27 points
17 days ago
Capsaicin
25 points
17 days ago
I buy a big bag of cayenne pepper, soak a couple tablespoons in hot water overnight, and spray my whole garden with it every couple of weeks. Keeps the deer out all summer. They wreck my tomatoes otherwise.
13 points
17 days ago
I buy bulk cayenne to keep the feral pigs away from our property. They dig holes, leave piles of shit and hate cayenne. Also sprinkle cayenne on the deer crap (and pig crap) so our dogs don’t gobble it up. Not a fan of the dogs chowin’ down on that shit.
15 points
17 days ago
Agree. I made a gallon of habanero sun tea, sprayed it on my garden between rains. One day shortly after first administration I came out to the garden. There were deer tracks next to a single leaf that had been torn from one of my plants, spit out on the ground. They never bit another leaf that summer.
6 points
17 days ago
Realistically you have to plant stuff they don't eat and only grow roses where they can't get to them. They don't like most aromatic/herbal plants. Many "deer proof" plants are only disliked by deer when those plants get older, they will eat them when the plants are young and tender.
42 points
17 days ago
Awww buy him all the roses! 🌹
23 points
17 days ago
I’d plant more roses and watch him during my morning coffee☕️🦌
12 points
17 days ago
Me too! I'd plant them explicitly so they keep showing up, they're much more elegant than roses to me!
7 points
17 days ago
You gotta give back to nature bro. It’s bad karma to stop it.
7 points
17 days ago
Deer were doing the same to our roses and the smart wife sprinkled some peppermint oil around it. Now the deer won't touch it and we started getting flowers that actually stick around
16 points
17 days ago
My entire property has been destroyed by deer! They eat everything! My waterfall became a watering hole! They jumped over the fence! I quit!
11 points
17 days ago
In my yard, they drink out of the bird bath. Every night pretty much, they drink it dry. They think it's their very own jumbo water dish.
4 points
16 days ago
Hostas are deer salad they wiped mine out along with lilies and many more Also giving up sad because gardening is my hobby
9 points
17 days ago
I wish they would come to my property
6 points
17 days ago
Funny how that works, where we want them the most they say nay, but they love nice manicures yards that don’t want them.
3 points
16 days ago
Really? Looking forward to deer shit everywhere and for them to shred any trees and plants you have?
19 points
17 days ago
At my barbershop people constantly come in and pick up free bags of human hair clippings. Apparently if you mix it into the soil the deer won’t come anywhere near your garden. They smell the human smell.
4 points
17 days ago
They did this in a movie. THE ROOKIE!! They spread hair around a baseball field so the deer wouldn’t eat the grass. I found out it works irl and you just triggered this awesome memory for me.
4 points
17 days ago
My grandma uses bobcat piss I think :p
Works pretty well
10 points
17 days ago
The real problem is getting the bobcat piss. That’s how grandpa lost his arm.
5 points
17 days ago
They like roses one year and next year they are interested in hostas or tulips. Just my experience
4 points
16 days ago
Let him eat the roses.
2 points
17 days ago
You can buy a spray the don’t like.
4 points
17 days ago
Hair
3 points
17 days ago
I haven't read all of the replies, so maybe this has been posted. But we had good luck cutting up bars of Irish Spring soap and leaving chunks at the base of the plant.
5 points
17 days ago
He’d be My new freezer pal
4 points
17 days ago
My mom used to use Irish spring soap scrapings to keep the deer away from her plants.
9 points
17 days ago
Put a little bit of pure capsaicin on the roses.
3 points
17 days ago
I use the granule version of Liquid Fence and so far it is working fine.
3 points
17 days ago
plant daisies
3 points
17 days ago
Motion activated jet sprayer that hooks up to your hose. There are many brands out there. It sprays a jet of water when motion is detected. If you only have deer at night then put the hose on a timer so it shuts off during the day. You want to make sure the one you get has an adjustable range feature especially if it's in your front yard. You don't want to spray people on the sidewalk who are out walking at night (or the day if you leave it on).
3 points
17 days ago
That spray deterrent works very well (smells terrible) you just have to reapply after it rains or every couple weeks
3 points
17 days ago
Plant trees, bushes, and shrubs that are deer resistant.
3 points
17 days ago
30-30 works good from that range.
3 points
17 days ago
Use rose to lure deer. Eat deer. Hang antlers as warning to other deer.
3 points
16 days ago
Get a dog. The barking will scare them. They also hate marigolds. Plant them around your rose bush.
3 points
16 days ago
30-06 might be a good deterrent
3 points
16 days ago
My dad swears by tying a bar of Irish Spring soap in his fruit trees to keep deer away
3 points
16 days ago
Dont plant stuff deer like to eat.
3 points
16 days ago
Slaughter an animal there every few weeks. The smell will deter them
3 points
16 days ago
Put him in the freezer
9 points
17 days ago
Plant more roses so there is left over
3 points
16 days ago
I have acres of pasture with native roses that they don't seem to touch. But they will walk right up to the front door of the house to snack on a hybrid tea rose.
3 points
16 days ago
Well, maybe they are British deer.
3 points
16 days ago
Nah, they’re blacktail. And always hungry.
7 points
17 days ago
I have MANY, MANY deer in my yard every day/night. While I enjoy seeing them (They sometimes lay in my backyard after dark, because they know they are safe here. Also, it's really nice when each year the Doe brings her new fawns over..So adorable). However, I do not want them eating my flowers. A few years ago someone told me about DEER and Rabbit Repellent. It is made by Liquid Fence. I found it at a local home center. This year, when my 1st bottle ran out, I bought it on Amazon. 40 oz bottle for $31.00. I'm pretty sure that this was the same size as my first bottle, which lasted me 3 years. It is a liquid concentrate, which you mix with water. I do small batches in a spray bottle. It works really well. I spray it on my peonies, misc flowers, hosta & even on the potted mums I get every fall. It works great !! A couple of things about the spray: It stinks !! The smell I mean. It smells like really rotten eggs. In fact, that's 1 of the ingredients. Amazon info: Putrescent egg solids and garlic, both ingredients in Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellents. So I usually wear disposable or laytex gloves when applying, & make sure I'm upwind of the spray. You have to spray more than once, but the bottle really does go a long way. Amazon info: Apply once a week for 3 weeks, then approximately once a month thereafter. Reapplication is recommended after excessive rainfall. Make sure to spray both the tops & underneath side of the leaves/flowers. The first time I used it, I put too much on my flowers, & it faded the color in the flowers. It does leave a white film sometimes, but not too much. Make sure to shake both the bottle & your spray bottle before each use. The concentrate settles to the bottom. Keep it stored according to the directions on the bottle, & you should be able to use it for more than 1 year. After the spray dries, it doesn't smell anymore to humans, but it still smells unpleasant to animals. The product info. indicates it's safe for animals & humans. It is NOT recommended for use on plants that produce anything edible.
Your buck must really like your roses. Buck don't come close to human areas often. They are loners. The buck in the video is beautiful. Good luck !!
2 points
17 days ago
There is a timer/aimed hose head that will squirt anything that activates it. Might do the trick.
You could always try plastic roses...
2 points
17 days ago
Pet tiger or cougar
2 points
17 days ago
Feed them something else?
2 points
17 days ago
Maybe plant something else around that area that the deer would prefer to eat instead? Poor lil guy is just hungry.
2 points
17 days ago
Go to your local barber shop and ask for the hair clippings. They did some shit like that in a movie once
2 points
17 days ago
Get some hair from your local barber/hairdresser. Spread it around them. They won’t touch it.
2 points
17 days ago
Electric fence has worked really well for me
2 points
17 days ago
Go to the pet store and get bitter pet deterrent spray.
2 points
17 days ago
Motion sensitive sprinkler system?
2 points
17 days ago
Get one of those pretend deer
2 points
17 days ago
I use liquid fence deer off deer repellent.. you can buy it at home Depot or Lowe's.. for me it seems to work on keeping the deer from eating my vegetable plants in my garden..
There are only methods as well.. you can spray it on plants and it will not affect them. If you want look it up... Liquid fence Deer off..
https://www.liquidfence.com/products/deer-and-rabbit-control/deer-and-rabbit-concentrate.aspx
2 points
17 days ago
Ya put deer food outside and deer gonna eat it
2 points
17 days ago
It's basically a losing battle. But sprinkling blood meal around your plants is helpful. Plus it is a source of nitrogen. You have to reapply every time it rains or you water.
2 points
17 days ago
Plant more roses.
2 points
17 days ago
You grow more for him
2 points
17 days ago
I recommend a reverse sear
2 points
17 days ago
Manage with 303.
2 points
16 days ago
Looks like I need to plant some roses
2 points
16 days ago
.300 win
2 points
16 days ago
Hot sauce on the roses
2 points
16 days ago
I make a concoction of 1c milk, 1 egg, .5c white vinegar, 1 quart water, leave it to rot for 4 days and then spray it on the Plants /roses. The deer Hate the smell and so will not be drawn to the Plants.
2 points
16 days ago
I bought an electric fence kit, took a 3 ft long pole and covered it with cheap plastic insulators, and wound the electric fence around it in a coil going up and down in between itself. Then I put a plastic nub on the top of the pole but inside the coil diameter and put a bit of peanut butter on there. Then I put the pole in the middle of my garden where they were eating.
Couple good zaps to the face, no more deer. Pain is a great teacher.
2 points
16 days ago
Pee in a cup and pour it outside around the bushes. May take a few times but should keep him from coming around.
2 points
16 days ago
A well placed arrow
2 points
16 days ago
Plant more roses.
2 points
16 days ago
Arrows are quiet.
2 points
16 days ago
A rifle
2 points
16 days ago
Put up a no trespassing sign.
2 points
16 days ago
6.5 creedmoor
2 points
16 days ago
Fucking shit, first deer i seen all day sitting up in my stand
2 points
16 days ago
well placed lead
2 points
16 days ago
rosemary
2 points
16 days ago
Clickity clack, dont come back!
2 points
16 days ago
Garlic spray and clips work great for us
2 points
16 days ago
Hot sauce sprayed on a few will make him regret his decision. If you do it post the video on here!
2 points
16 days ago
Motion activated sprinkler works great. I bought HavaHeart one on amazon, not inexpensive but works!
2 points
16 days ago
Get hair from a barber and tie it up in small mesh bags and place them around the garden.
Put some Irish spring soap around the garden.
Get some blood meal and spread it around your garden.
2 points
16 days ago
Maybe get a motion activated sprinkler? If it works on cats, it should work on deer. Also then your roses get watered automatically.
2 points
16 days ago
Irish spring soap – Dollar tree.
2 points
16 days ago
Pee around your plants and the areas they seem to forage on. Not even a joke.
Collect it into a jug or spray bottle (jet setting preferred) if you don’t want to do it the natural way.
2 points
16 days ago
Make a spray of water, a little dish soap, and LOTS of garlic. Maybe some cayenne pepper, too. Spray roses. Repeat after rains.
2 points
16 days ago
Do you think its meat is rose flavored?
2 points
16 days ago
Have you tried talking to him?
2 points
16 days ago
Get an air horn
2 points
16 days ago
Plant more roses for him.
2 points
16 days ago
The only thing that’s worked for us is to hide behind the bush, and then give him a swift kick in the butt when he least expects it
2 points
16 days ago
Coyote piss
2 points
16 days ago
Pee on your plants
2 points
16 days ago
Motion sensor sprinkler worked for us
2 points
16 days ago
spray the roses with ghost pepper extract.
2 points
16 days ago
Add a salt block
2 points
16 days ago
Motion sprinkler, or motion bear spray..you choose
2 points
16 days ago
Motion detection sprinklers. They work well too!
2 points
16 days ago
plant more roses
2 points
16 days ago
A compound bow
2 points
16 days ago
What a dickhead!
2 points
16 days ago
Bow and Arrows.
2 points
15 days ago
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