It was the owl. They are impervious to skunk smell.
Similar happened to me with the game camera thing. I would get pictures of deer in my yard at night all the time. But wanted some pics of the coyotes that are around. So I set up a game camera with a dead raccoon (that I caught in my chicken coop) wired to a tree in front of the camera.
I ran piano wire thru the hindquarters to the tree. The camera shot three shots. First two, raccoon was there. Third, no raccoon. Just gone. No predator showed up.
Now, I live trap the raccoons, possums, skunks, whatever. And take them downtown Cincinnati to the tent cities they set up.
If I still lived on Grosse Ile, I’d do the same thing and drop them off in downtown Detroit!
Now, I live trap the raccoons, possums, skunks, whatever. And take them downtown Cincinnati to the tent cities they set up.
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Why?
I used to do that to the possums and raccoons that I would catch. Drop them off about a block away from my plant on Connor and Charlevoix.