Inventor Turns Water On Rabbits
Rabbits eat more than carrots.
Richard Miller learned that lesson the hard way as he stood by helplessly, watching rabbits feasting on his lawn and plants, well on their way to turning thousands of dollars worth of professional landscaping into rabbit pellets.
Then he got even. He invented something he says keeps the rabbits away for good, and it doesn’t harm them.
Although the rabbits were driving him nuts, he refused to take drastic action against them. His landscaper recommended a product with the scent of coyote urine, which supposedly keeps rabbits at bay.
“I don’t want to knock the product, but I can tell you it certainly repels humans,” he said of its stench. He could not see how it was helping, and it had to be reapplied frequently after rain or watering.
As it turned out, Toya, the family’s fox terrier, turned into a muse by giving Miller the idea for a harmless way to get rid of the pests.
Miller is the inventor of Tagbak, a system that activates sprinklers by infrared sensors, which discourages graffiti at monuments, vulnerable walls and other locations. In a sense, it’s “tagging back” the taggers. Think of the watering system at a grocery store’s produce case, but with more gusto.
Photo by Tagbak.
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