My poor parents.  They just built a beautiful new home on a lake to spend their retirement years and recently moved in.  They laid down sod in the front of the house (which looks great, incidentally), but had to seed the backyard.  All was well … until the renegade geese started showing up to eat the seed and “fertilize” the lawn.

Desperate to get this problem under control, my parents turned to me to see what my wife and I did to scare of rabbits and other city vermin trying to scavenge food from our summer backyard garden.  I fired off an email with a link to the Electronic ScareCrow Motion Activated Sprinkler and told him to give it a try.

Well, the results are in: not only did it work at scaring away the geese, but it also worked to discourage ducks, squirrels and deer from the coming in the backyard, too!  As a result, my parents now have a backyard that’s more than just dirt/mud and goose poo, and if that isn’t a ringing endorsement, I don’t know what is.

The ScareCrow is effective for a few reasons:

1. It uses a combination of sudden noise, unexpected movement and a blast of water to deter critters from wandering into your yard.
2. It conditions the animal (yes, psychology is rearing its ugly head in a fixitup post!) to stay away.
3. It’s built from a high-quality, durable plastic… so even if an animal decided to attack the ScareCrow out of frustration, it really wouldn’t do much damage (unless, of course, this is a bear we’re talkin’ about).

All you have to do to set up the ScareCrow is attach a standard garden hose to its base, set the unit in the ground that you want to protect and turn on the water.  The ScareCrow is powered by a 9V battery.