Does Peeing In Your Yard Keep Deet Awy Animals Away

All of us know at least one unconventional hunter who goes confronting the grain when it comes to hunting strategies. In our tightly knit group, Crash was that guy. Later that night over a sizzling plate of venison tenderloins (courtesy of yours truly), Crash swore on his mother'south grave that his own urine had put two Booners on his wall. The room erupted in laughter — all except Crash, that is. He was dead serious.

Other hunters are against the practise of peeing in scrapes — or anywhere most where they hunt.

"I just don't feel correct almost urinating on the ground when I'm hunting," said my friend Tom Nelson, host of American Archer. "I don't want to practise anything that may alert deer that they're being hunted."

Like many other hunters, Nelson carries in his pack a pee bottle. He faithfully uses information technology whenever nature calls.

Urine basics for deer hunters

Regardless of whether yous're talking about deer or people, in healthy individuals, all urine is made up of more than 95 per centum h2o. Man and deer urine both also contain things like ammonia, urea, sodium chloride, potassium and creatinine, along with other inorganic and organic compounds.

You can tell a lot about someone, or something, from their pee.

"Urine is cogitating of an animal's physiology, nutrition, age, sex activity and overall health," said Dr. Karl Miller, researcher at the University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. "Deer are herbivores and humans are omnivores, so at that place are big differences between their urine."

At that place are unique chemicals, pheromones and hormones found in deer urine, making it not but distinct from homo urine, but unique from deer to deer. For example, wild animals biologist Dr. James Kroll constitute at that place are at least xc different compounds in doe urine. Scientists believe deer apply urine to communicate and learn near each other, making it a big deal in the whitetail earth.

What information do deer get from human being urine?

"To deer, humans are predators, then it's possible that deer can tell the deviation between predator and non-predator urine," said Brian Spud, biologist and executive director of the Quality Deer Management Association. "But it's unlikely deer associate human urine with humans, unless a human leaves their odour behind along with the urine."

Miller agrees. "Deer aren't genetically programmed to be able to identify man urine. For them to do that, they'd accept to follow a hunter around and look for him to urinate, or catch him urinating, and so go check it out."

In the woods, urine from deer and predators is everywhere. If a deer bolted every fourth dimension it discovered predator urine, it would never get a moment's peace. Besides, finding urine from predators, including humans, tells deer where the predator was — not where the predator is. So it's unlikely that, absent-minded other indicators of a human's presence, a buck will loftier-tail it to the next county upon discovering human pee.

"I don't believe it bothers deer, and can even arouse their curiosity," said bowhunter and author Jay Strangis. "Before I climb on stand, I recollect well-nigh whether I might take to urinate later in the sit down. If I must urinate, I don't hesitate to do then anywhere near the bottom of my tree before I climb upwardly."

Homo urine: attract or deter?

Few studies have been done on the effects of human urine on whitetails. Several years ago, Kroll and and so-graduate student Ben Koerth used trail cameras to monitor mock scrapes treated with commercial buck urine, doe-in-heat urine, human urine and new automobile smell (which they got from a motorcar wash). The researchers ran each test site for two weeks, 24 hours a solar day. They carefully recorded how many deer came to each site, and how many times. They also noted the blazon of deer visiting each site (buck, doe, fawn) and estimated its historic period.

To say the least, what they found was underwhelming.

"Deer of all ages and sexes came to every one of the handling sites," explained Kroll. "We found no statistical deviation in the number of deer, or type of deer, that came to any i of the treatments. The average number of times a detail deer came to a treatment site was once, and over 90 percentage of all visitations were nocturnal."

Kroll and Koerth concluded that, when it comes to pee, a deer'south natural curiosity explains its behavior. "For their survival, it'due south necessary for deer to exist curious and know everything that's going in their home range," Kroll said.

What'southward interesting is that, although non statistically relevant, both the buck urine and human urine outperformed doe-in-heat urine.

"That's one reason that I commonly salvage myself in existing scrapes," said wildlife biologist and hunter C.J. Winand. "Whenever I'm leaving a hunting area, I regularly use my boot to make a mock scrape under an overhanging branch and urinate in it. If a buck is walking by your stand and gets preoccupied with one of your scrapes, you have a ameliorate take a chance for a shot."

Murphy believes the answer isn't equally simple as it may seem. "We don't know if human urine was the attractant, considering at that place are a bunch of other scents around that could exist having the effect, such as deer urinating into the scrape, preorbital gland secretions on the licking branch, and tarsal gland odors."

Longtime bowhunter John Eberhart, co-author of "Bowhunting the Eberhart Way," believes that it depends on the type of deer yous're after.

"I believe human being urine could possibly attract a deer, but I pursue mature bucks in heavily-pressured areas, and in such areas, mature bucks do not behave like subordinate bucks and does practice when it comes to annihilation out of the ordinary concerning odors. If they experience or witness anything out of the ordinary, they are gone."

Eberhart as well believes that if you're hunting modest destination areas like primary scrape sites, near mast or fruit trees close to encompass, or pinch points along transition routes, y'all don't demand a scent to assistance you bring dwelling the backstraps.

Conclusion

Then in the end, homo urine probably won't run most deer off, and it may even pique the curiosity of some of them. If you're going to drop your britches and respond the call of Mother Nature in a scrape or underneath your stand, just make certain that's all y'all're leaving. "If human urine gets deer thinking nearly what they're smelling, and so it may heighten their awareness and make them more likely to notice a hunter," Miller cautioned.

For the hunter, letting loose and letting the urine fly may be just the thing to go on 'em on stand. "If urinating in a scrape is a conviction architect, or it allows you to keep hunting, then go ahead and do it," Kroll said. "Because one of the biggest things you tin do to heave your odds for success is to hunt longer."

The moral of this story is, if yous gotta pee, keep your hunting area odor-free!

Featured Photograph: Amy Hatfield

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