12/19/2017 6:12 AM
Something different to chew on.
We use quite a lot of rope on this muni course in the hope of directing cart traffic to where we would like it to go. One day we started noticing that where the rope attaches to a stake whether it was a wood stake or a recycled plastic stack that the rope appeared to be "cut". Every morning the rope was "cut" some says quite a bit of it was cut and is was always cut right at the stake. We wondered is all the rope we had made a/some golfers mad or what.
One morning when Casey(assistant) was tying rope back together he noticed that the top of a plastic stake looked like it had been chewed on and the light went on - We have a family of foxes living on our 11th hole - see them almost everyday throughout the year which is pretty neat for a nearly middle of the city course. Golfers often comment on seeing them. The foxes where chewing on the rope for whatever reason.
How were we going to stop them from doing that. Casey had a buddy that had told him he had a dog digging in the yard and that he used cayenne pepper in the digging hole and the dog stopped digging. So, we purchased some cayenne pepper and some vegetable oil and started coating the rope right at the stakes and the foxes stopped chewing. Problem solved for now.
Anyone else ever have anything similar to that happen.
Similarly, I don't even want to get started on what happens when a coyote roams onto the property and stays for a day or two.
Be good.