Posted on 01/27/2021 8:29:29 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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“Here in semi-rural PA, there are folks with pet skunks.”
Here in suburban DuPage County Il, we had a neighbor lady about 100 yards down that had a nest with kits under her front porch.
She would put bits of dog food out for the kits!!!
She would pet them and pick them up!!!
When she thought the time was right and knew the entire family was out and about, they bricked up around the porch on top of an apron of chicken wire.
I do not mind them and enjoy seeing them at a distance.
When the mulberries come in, I would see a few most nights on my garden camera, I believe that some nights most of the critters in the county stopped by for a late snack.
” Ive trapped 13 in 5 years, he has got 3.”
A live trap?
A friend used a live trap wrapped in black plastic, with each end open, used fried bacon for bait.
When traped he slid the plastic down for self-protection.
Then dropped them off about 2 miles down the way in the woods.
I tend to think they made it back to his house before they did.
For de skunking...
1 quart of 3-percent hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon liquid dishwashing soap
Works like a champ if you can get it quick.
A second shot the next day if it soaked in.
We keep it in stock with rubber gloves.
Way, way too much experience with the procedure.
One night while rinsing the dog I see red everywhere?
Thinking the dog was cut, I patted him down with white towels... NOTHING? Second, try nothing?
Get out the quarts light... nothing???
The skunk juice or the cleaner caused the dye from his collar to run.
Very happy the dog was OK. Now his red collar is pink.
https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/de-skunking-your-dog
He killed one under the house in July 1962 and it took us weeks to figure out where the smell was coming from. I hated that dog.
that’s gonna be one starving cougar - his prey will smell him from a mile away for a week or two
About 20 years ago a skunk died under my neighbor’s front porch. Her son was up for the weekend and had to crawl under and drag it out. The stink finally dissipated after about a month or so. I’m not sure how long it was before her son’s wife let him back in the house...
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I was out driving with a friend and photographer in north Louisiana. (both of us shutterbugs) I saw something cross the road and slowed down, already going slow, just before dark. Turned out to be a skunk, I jumped out and wanted to grab a picture but it disappeared into the weeds just across a ditch. The passenger was going to get out too, he opened the door and got his foot on the ground, yelled something I won’t repeat and got back inside in a big hurry.
Four baby skunks each about 8 inches long about 2 feet from his foot. We decided to call it a day. Without skunk pictures, the little ones disappeared into the brush too, before he could get a shot of them.
I still have never gotten a skunk picture. Foxes, a Bobcat, Otters, all sorts of birds and various wildlife but no skunks, wolves or bears.
A live “HavAHeart” brand...then I shoot them. We have too many here, and I set the trap right outside the yard fence, not the pasture area.
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