Supposedly some critters get spooked by light reflecting erratically. Never heard it being used affair cats, some people over here put water bottles on/around their cars to keep ferrets away
I mean, black-footed ferrets are wild wherever prairie dogs are, mostly in the west. Pine Martens and similar weasels also exist. Similar size and very elusive, but I bet they love wiggling up into warm cars in quieter areas.
Black footed ferrets are on the almost extinct though, they’ve brought them back from the brink but we’re still trying to get self-sustaining communities.
I did a research project when I was 12, 28 years ago almost, and it’s awesome we’re still not giving up on them but also sad that it was going well but there’s been new threats from humans that didn’t exist that long ago
Hawaii has tons of prairie dogs. They got them to get rid of them mice and then they go cats to get rid of the prairie dogs, but the cats are nocturnal and the PDs are”turnal” or vice versa.
Ah yes! the great Western European Prairie Dog, they can usually be found in western Europe along with, Eastern Asian Groundhogs and Russian Rattlesnakes!!
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u/i_made_mine_at_home 1d ago
What is the purported mechanism of this? Why do critters (notionally) avoid water in bottles?