Scentsitivity and the Urban Coyote

Surprisingly enough, the greatest threat to a coyote’s well-being is not a misfired ACME anvil, but one of the coyote’s own cousins, the wolf. Wolves top the list of the very few natural predators faced by a coyote and, with a sense of smell at least 100 times superior to a human’s, coyotes avoid the urine scent markings of wolves like…well, misfired ACME anvils.

Thus sprang an age-old solution to an age-old problem in rural areas: If you want to prevent coyotes from menacing your chicken coops, spritz the area with wolf urine. People who live in rural areas and own chicken coops presumably have access to wolf urine. As the coyote overpopulation problem expands into cities and suburbs, however (there are an estimated 5000 coyotes roaming the streets of Los Angeles County alone), the solution is slow to follow. Where is a city slicker whose designer garbage cans are being plagued by foraging coyotes supposed to find a bottle of wolf urine?

Right here. PredatorPee™ 100% Wolf Urine, available in a 3-pack of 12 oz bottles for $73.99, is guaranteed to trick even the wiliest of coyote noses into mis-sensing the presence of a wolf and scurrying for a less worrisome refuse bin down the block.