Shake Away 5006258 Fox Urine Granules, 5-Pound

It WORKS! Saved my garden from all the local night invaders. Used it on the border.

Bye Bye Mr. Squirrel.I have an avocado tree. Huge. Like 40 feet. It produces about 1000 avocados a year (that is not a typo). But do you think I can eat any? No. Because the Squirrel Population of Southern California (they have their own civil rights organization) released a memo to it's general membership promoting the "free eats" in my yard. Every day I'd go in the backyard to see 10 to 15 avocados dropped from the tree. Each with one bite taken out. ONE BITE!!!! I wouldn't mind if they took an avocado or two, but they have the NERVE to take one bite and leave the rest in the yard! You can't use it after that and just have to throw it away. Hundreds of wasted avocados, I tell you. One day, I hear "thump", "thump"... look in the backyard to see the fattest squirrel ever biting, then dropping the avocados to the ground. I knew I needed to do something. I went out there to challenge him. He looked at me like "whatchu gone do!". I got my high intensity water hose and let him have it! Man, he opened his mouth and drank it like I was doing him a favor, then went farther up the tree. Later, he brought his whole family to the tree. I'd throw rocks to shoo them away, but it never lasted too long. By the next day, there were more avocados in the yard. One day I went outside to see a squirrel gang fight over whose tree it was. R U kidding me!??? It's MY tree, you squirrel vermin!!I immediately ordered a BB Gun to shoot them out of the tree then thought, "maybe I should not go shooting what looks like a real gun at the trees in South Central Los Angeles." That probably wouldn't have worked out well for me. So then in desperation, I ordered everything I could find on the internet and HOT DAMN found a winner. SHAKE AWAY!!!Shook it on Wednesday. Thursday, had one partially eaten avocado. Friday, had none. Now, 5 days later, no more wasted avocados out of my tree. Boom. It works. Now if I could just find something that works on stray cats... Hmmm, well I do still have my BB gun...

I'm a repeat buyer of this stuff. Originally bought the 3 pound size and it did what it was supposed to which is get rid of Mr. or Ms. Groundhog who had set up home umder the slab of my garage. Filled in the hole and all was well for about 7 months from the initial application. In late June, saw the entrance hole had been dug out. I wasn't surprised as I had read that GH can smell the former den of another GH for several years after it has been vacated, and will dig it out to reoccupy it. I had a little left of the original purchase and sprinkled it into the new hole and immediately ordered this larger size. I haven't seen any further activity at the hole since the reapplication. Fortuneately, some actual real foxes have moved into the area and I'm hoping they will eat any groundhogs that come around.Now, for the warnings. This stuff really stinks. Wear latex or rubber gloves that you can throw away when opening, applying, or handling it in any way. If it gets on your hands, expect the smell to stay for days. Be sure you are upwind and reach out with the container so none gets on your shoes.Shipping advice...have this stuff shipped separately from any other items. I ordered a National Audubon Society Field Guide book at the same time; Amazon put them in the same box. The Shake Away was in a plastic bag, but it had holes, and for some completely unfathomable reason, the lid was not screwed onto the container. The book was not wrapped in anything. The book was covered in fox urine granules and now stinks to high heaven. I immediately called Amazon customer service and they shipped out a new book with expedited delivery; they even requested I not ship the original book back them.Oh, and when you open the box, do it outside; you really do not want any of this stuff inside your house.I would have given this 5 stars as it worked as it was supposed to on my groundhog problem, but a quality control or inspection problem by the manufacturer in not screwing the lid on could have caused a very nasty clean up problem if the shipping box had been opened in the house.