so today i thought i'd share with you about the irish spring deodorant soap as a deterrent
for the deer eating this tree trees like this little eastern red cedar tree but there are
other claims about deodorant soap when you put it outside it's supposed to keep skunks away
fox away rodents away bunnies and everything else well i'm gonna put that to the test
i like to do things for direct observation
so here we have it this is my bar of soap hanging on my little cedar tree and who shows up a skunk
you might notice that my bar of soap is held on there by a zip tie look how many
zip ties there are two that's because the last time i put a bar of deodorant soap up here
something came and chewed it until it tore it off and that zip tie and ran away with it
well now we have our answer it's a skunk we have lots of skunks around the area and
this one seems to like to eat soap they have terrible eyesight they're nocturnal
predominantly when they hunt things out and they have a great sense of smell so i'm told
i don't know if you've ever smelled a bar of this irish spring deodorant so but
the scent is really strong so i figured well that scent would be troubling to a lot of animals
why would they want to be around something that smells so strong unless you're already
an animal like a skunk that generates its own smell that tends to be pretty strong
look at the chunks of soap falling down the front of its chest now these things eat my honeybees
so i've had to deal with that but they also do a lot of good they're omnivores
and i guess this proves it not only do they eat rodents they'll dig out wasps out of the ground
they do a lot of good they eat up dead bees on the ground but apparently we can add to that list
irish spring deodorant soap bars now obviously if i put this piece of soap higher on a tree this
little tree didn't have that option because it's only about a foot and a half tall thanks to the
deer destroying it so this is the bar soap that's closest to the ground skunks can't really climb
trees so this one was accessible but what was funny to me is how desperate this little skunk was
to eat as much of this soap as it can now it comes to it every single night some people say
the soap has to be fresh that it wears out after a couple of weeks well this bar soap
is only two days old it stinks i mean i can smell it downwind from quite a distance
but we're going to show you some interesting side behaviors here too
this is happening in at night time obviously it's 2 30 in the morning skunks roaming around
but what i really thought was funny is how serious the skunk is about
getting it i mean this gun could be off eating anything it wants
this is november 20th so things are cooling down but this was an unseasonably warm night
in the 50s now where do you think the skunk wants to take the soap anyway
what possible nutritional value could it have but one thing for sure that this video satisfies
is that irish spring deodorant soap is not going to deter a skunk we've also had them laying around
in bee sheds and storage areas to see if it would keep mice and things like that away
let me just put it politely you could actually use
bits of irish spring deodorant soap to attract them to your live catch traps
but the best part is when skunks chew they make a lot of noise this one is rustle the leaves around
it's chewing noisily on the sparrow soap well whose attention do you think that's going to get
something that the skunk doesn't necessarily want to share its food with
but if you have rude manners if you chew with your mouth open
like this skunk does you're about to be heard by something else
what's that
nothing just goes back to chewing the soap
happily munching away smelling good wait what is that
a fox
who's going to chase that box out of there
see those eyes that's a fox trotting by there goes the skunk
nobody messes with a skunk or it comes between the skunk and it's bar of irish spring generator so
let's get get out of here fox trots spy again just want to see what you're eating get out of here
have you ever seen the skunk chaser fox away have you ever seen an animal
as casual as the fox who doesn't seem to be at all alarmed that a skunk could spray it
the effective squirting range of a skunk is 10 feet people
well later the skunk left so the fox decided to come and check it out what's all the fuss about
what's up with this bar of stuff hanging on this tree i'm going to eat some of that
a couple good bites maybe i can get it off of there let's shoot it that didn't taste right
what the heck give it another bite get a little piece off now
that doesn't taste right at all
it's kind of thing you'd be forced to eat if you used a curse word
i'll rub my face in this grass and get that off of there so it's pretty clear even though
skunks make it look like it tastes really good from a fox perspective nah he takes a pass
so does it deter skunks no
irish spring dealer itself
will not deter skunks fox mice rats or bunnies maybe it works on deer
here's a big white-tailed deer coming up the one that caused all the damage in the first place
sniffs the soap but doesn't chew the tree so it might still work on deer
it definitely doesn't work on other things so far thanks for watching you