Weather 
Olivia Culpo is using offcuts of her hair to keep wild coyotes from stalking her pet dog.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, March 8, to detail her experience, Culpo, 33, revealed that she’d kept pieces of her hair from a recent cut to fend off threats that reside just outside her California home.
“I asked if I could take the hair we cut to sprinkle along my fence line to scare away the coyotes,” she wrote over a photo that captured her hair in a small plastic bag. “This is the level of insane dog mom I am but by the way, it works! The coyotes are everywhere and hungry.”
A subsequent Instagram Story featured footage of a coyote standing at the foot of her glass fence while peering into the model’s backyard. Culpo captioned it, “This video honestly still haunts me. A cute but hungry coyote … trying to eat my baby. And during the day.”
Culpo is fur mom to Oliver Sprinkles, an adopted Goldendoodle that she took in with her husband, NFL player Christian McCaffrey. The couple also share a human daughter, Colette, 8 months.
Culpo also shared footage of herself throwing her hair onto the surrounding grounds. “Yesterday I heard some rustling over here … not anymore. Coyotes, be gone,” she told fans in the clip.
Olivia Culpo’s Instagram Story Courtesy of Olivia Culpo/Instagram
According to Human Material Loop, an organization focused on sustainable innovation, “human hair has been used for centuries to repel animals and control pests in various ways.”
A doting mom to Oliver Sprinkles, Culpo created an Instagram account for her pup that’s attracted more than 30,000 followers. Prior to Culpo giving birth to her daughter, she shared a post in June 2025 that showed McCaffrey, 29, gazing adoringly at the pooch while cradling it on the couple’s back deck.
Another snap captured the athlete holding Oliver Sprinkles in his lap while seated on an aircraft.
Culpo recently opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about how her San Francisco 49ers star husband has adapted to fatherhood of the human variety. “I always knew he would be a really good dad because he’s a really good person,” Culpo told Us in January. “He has a really good example because his parents are great.”
Olivia Culpo’s Instagram Story Courtesy of Olivia Culpo/Instagram
She continued, “He will be such a good example and protector to her. I know that she’ll always be able to feel like she has someone who loves her more than anything. I feel like everybody deserves to feel that.”
Culpo evidently can’t help doting on her little one herself, sharing a collection of infant onesies via Instagram that supported the 49ers during the last NFL season. Several of the tiny creations even featured McCaffrey’s jersey number, 23, traced into the back of them.
