They will destroy a garden like teenagers with free booze and no supervision can tear up a house on a weekend, and they also like to scratch themselves on stairs, porch beams, and piers, which could potentially cause more damage than scaring them with a can of pennies or sprinkling red pepper powder all over when it’s dry.Record #: A2017-070.0085 UA Reference File: Football 1959-Reference file contains:* Javelina Shine During Era of 1959-'69* Sports Illustrated, "Knocking at the Door, Texas A&I's Johnny Bailey is tantalizingly close to breaking Tony Dorsett's career rushing record!" 1989* Sports Illustrated, Small-College Success Stories by Dick Kishpough, 1989* Publication of Eleventh Annual Harlon Hill Trophy Presentation Bamquet Program, 1996: Javelina highlights included* Sport Illustrated ad, "Darrell Green!" 1990* Javelina Highlights, "Johnny Bailey. I like cultivating bulb flowers and it can be pricey and challenging due to planting times for these plants. While I don’t have much in the means of vegetation in my yard, they ate my tulips and many of my other bulbs. The Javelina do not get bored and wander off as much as they destroy all they can and then wander off looking for more. If I could attract some foxes and coyotes to mark my yard, I would be set. My only issue with his suggestion is the ammonia makes the raccoons, skunks, and strays mark my yard more. You take the can and you throw it in their direction – the key is the handful of pennies, screws, or beans in it, because the noise scares them. You put the stuff your yard and the scent chases them off. No one suggested tackling the Javelina with chloroform in the style of a mobster movie.
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It won’t really hurt them, but it might scare them off. He also suggested making a shake can by sealing some pennies or small pebbles in a can and then winging it at the javelinas. It’s not like they’re going to eat you or anything. You can also run at them and wave your arms and shout. You could try spraying them with a hose, but I think they might actually like that. Yarchin also said you should try to discourage them from getting comfortable.
Yarchin said he doesn’t like using mothballs because it just means that many more chemicals leaching into the soil. It can’t smell any worse than the javelinas. Some repellants based on red pepper might work short-term and you could try scattering around some rags that have been soaked in ammonia. I don’t know why anyone would think they’re cute, but some people do. You need to make sure there isn’t anyone in the neighborhood putting food out for the javelinas because they think they’re cute animals. Try driving some wrought-iron stakes deep into the ground and maybe reinforcing them with chicken wire. You don’t need to put up a great big block fence. I bet it was javelinas.Īnyway, Yarchin said your best bet is a fence. He knows all about stuff like this, although as far as I know he doesn’t know who stole my bedspread off the clothesline the other day. I consulted on this one with Joe Yarchin, an urban wildlife specialist with the state Game and Fish Department.