Like Farley Mowat’s somewhat suspicious encounters with wolves in Canada, I was wondering: I was always taught in the latter stages of Boy Scouts that urinating around your campsite could keep some animals away, smaller predators and the like. I’ve done it a few times with no disturbances during the night. But I wonder how much that would work for other places like your home. Could you keep varmints out of your garden by micturating around the perimeter? How about other dogs out of our yard by making an invisible fence with your own materials 
… Any thoughts?
1.) Don’t Do it whil the Neighbors are watching
2.) I suspect your local dogs will be more tempted to pee over your marks once you’ve made them.
That is why you have to make sure to wee high enough up on a wall/fence/tree, so that the canines in the hood know who is the boss
Just don’t do it ON the campfire – speaking from experience.
I heard that it dosn’t work if you are a vegetarian: it has to be meat-eater pee to keep the animals away.
:dubious: Isn’t the intent to keep others away?
Your home already has quite enough ‘human smells’ around it for animals to know that humans live there.
If they come around anyway, it means either that:
- they aren’t real scared of coming around; they know that they are reasonably safe (especially during times like late at night).
- they have learned that places that smell like humans are good places to find food: gardens, garbage cans, etc.
Adding more human smell, like human urine, won’t change that. And, personally, I like to sit out in my garden and read or just enjoy the sunshine; I prefer to do that without the smell of urine, thank you.
Does that mean your stream of urine catched on fire, then made its way up into your urethra !? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: WOOAHHH!
That would hurt!!! No, it actually produces, errr, a distinguished scent. Probably wards off predators, and everything else in a square mile.
When I really think about it there is nothing inherently about my house or yard that smells like me. All our waste goes into a receptical under the ground, not on the yard. I mow the lawn and there may be some fumes, but that is not an animal smell. I don’t make a habit of rubbing myself on my trees around our home sorry to say, I don’t shed my hair on our lawn thank Og, and I don’t generally leave things around that smell anything remotely close to animalish.
So what people are saying is, if I plan to do it…pee at night, not in front of the neighbors, and not too close to the house - we don’t have a lot of homes near us really - and make sure to drink lot’s of tea first. 
Does that mean I can take my minature Daschunds to the country and hold them up about 7ft off the ground and let them relieve themselves on some tree trunks and that will keep the coyotes away from the house?
Except, my dogs are both female, so I’ll probably get visited by horny male coyotes in search of a little domination.
In my mid-20s I had a dog that would dig great big holes in the back yard when we weren’t home. She would start a hole and then keep working on it for a few days.
I tried everything I could think of to get her to stop, then hit upon the idea of “marking” the hole. So I drank a bunch of beer one night, and when my bladder was good and full I went out in the back yard and “marked” all around the hole she was then working on.
Sure enough, she left it alone after that (as would I). Whenever she would start a new hole, I’d go mark it, and within a few weeks she had stopped digging completely.
Anecdotal, I know, but there it is.
Ok, I was at a camping event. One person had a claimed wolf-husky hybrid (50/50).
I happened to pee behind a bush, the wolf-dog went over to investigate, made a small noise of suprise and backed away. :eek:
No idea if this would work with a wild wolf.
“Never cry Wolf” is somewhat fictional.
The dog was surprised because it did not remember seeing a horse with diabetes in the area.
Great. I just snorted and woke up the dog.
My dad stopped dogs from doing their business on his lawn by marking each location with his urine. Worked great.
I think if you get a reputation as “that crazy guy down the street who pisses on everything”, you can rest assured humans* at least will stay away.
*Except Jehovah’s Witnesses. Nothing works on them.
Now that all depends on just how late into the night it was… I’m certain that I’ve had a few events around the campfire that I might have been so full of flamable liquids that this could have happened! 
But his ‘real reply’ is accurate. It’s one of the worst smells you can imagine… and it sticks to EVERYTHING. If my tent is downwind of the fire, and you piss in it, expect to get tossed into the lake. (the tent OR the fire!)
Not to you, probably. But you are underestimating the sense of smell of dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc. Their smelling ability is thousands of times keener than ours.
Just living in the house, walking around in the yard, etc. will leave plenty of human smells about. I’ve seen a dog get loose coming out of a vets’ office, and run out into a huge mall parking lot. After looking around for a while, the dog was found – waiting impatiently by the owners car in the lot.
We spray fox pee around our small garden, and it has been very effective in keeping out squirrels and rabbits. With one exception. A lone baby rabbit took up residence in our watermelon patch. But all he ever did was sit there. On the other hand, we did nothing about insects, and all our cabbage and broccoli were ruined.