Random possibly useful fact

[Fun With Matches]

[Fun With Matches]

["couldbecousin"]

  Fatal hypothermia can cause people to do things that seem very strange, but that have medical explanations.

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Raccoons hate the smell of ammonia

[Icequeen]

Raccoons hate the smell of ammonia

Cat pee contains ammonia, so using ammonia based products to clean your front porch can sometimes result in cat pee.

Yeah, this was a lesson learned.

['andersom']

Raccoons hate the smell of ammonia

Cat pee contains ammonia, so using ammonia based products to clean your front porch can sometimes result in cat pee.

Yeah, this was a lesson learned.

Apparently cats can be triggered by bleech into that behaviour too.

*Adds vinegar to shoppinglist, because of neighbour cat*

[Icequeen]

Raccoons hate the smell of ammonia

Cat pee contains ammonia, so using ammonia based products to clean your front porch can sometimes result in cat pee.

Yeah, this was a lesson learned.

Apparently cats can be triggered by bleech into that behaviour too.

*Adds vinegar to shoppinglist, because of neighbour cat*

Baking soda helps too.

Used to grow catnip in the back yard for my 2 indoor only fur kids at the old house. I'd leave for the day and I swear every friggin cat in the patch would come party. I'd come home to 10 of them sometimes passed out on the porch.

[Gopher Gary]

*Adds vinegar to shoppinglist, because of neighbour cat*

You want to attract the neighbor's cat to pee? 

['andersom']

*Adds vinegar to shoppinglist, because of neighbour cat*

You want to attract the neighbor's cat to pee? 

Noooooo, quite the opposite. Those neighbours of mine should get that critter neutered. He proudly shows his well filled testicle pouch to everyone, and recently decided we should enjoy his scent too.

['andersom']

@ IQ, neighbour (not the one with the spraying cat) has catnip in her garden. I have valerian in mine. Cats visit both of us to pass out blissfully. 

[Gopher Gary]

*Adds vinegar to shoppinglist, because of neighbour cat*

You want to attract the neighbor's cat to pee? 

Noooooo, quite the opposite. Those neighbours of mine should get that critter neutered. He proudly shows his well filled testicle pouch to everyone, and recently decided we should enjoy his scent too.

I just realized Icequeen was talking about ammonia and you're talking about vinegar.  Does vinegar act as a deterrent? 

['andersom']

Don't know if vinegar works as a deterrent or as a neutralising thing.

Ammonia  enhances the ammonia already in the sprayed urine. Could lead to a territorial pissing contest. Not the best thing to have in the house.

[Icequeen]

Neighbor had a female that could spray better than the males. I didn't even think that was possible until I watched her do it one day. 

Little dainty thing could win a pissing contest hands down.

['andersom']

Luna sprays not often, but when she does, it's art. Aiming high, treading to spread the mist over a large area. Very happy it is a rare and always outdoor thing.
Cookie, the spraying male from nextdoor is a sprayer without creativity, thank goodness. Just a squirt at the height of its but, and that's it.

[odeon]

And how is this useful?!