I’ll raise you a couple armadillos...
I caught a very young skunk in my live trap last wednesday. Twice it got in and ate all the bait and didn’t trip the trap. it was just too small. On Monday it it ate all the marshmallow bait and did not trip the trap. I just left it and to my amazement, on Wednesday morning the unbaited trap captured the young skunk.
It is best described as just plain cute. It was the size of a medium kitton and just curled up and went to sleep.
While I was trying to decide what to do with it, the mama skunk came and made a terrific mess trying to dig it out. She dug a ditch all around the trap. I think that as she dug the side that opens she somehow loosed the release. It got away.
The skunks come and dig up the 17 year grubs that exist below the surface of my wife’s carefully tended and quite extensive moss carpet. I decided that rather than try to fight the skunks, I would try to kill the grubs. Next year is when literally thousands of the locusts are scheduled to emerge. I’ll try to kill them now. Recently t Lowes I saw sacks of grub killer. I bought some this morning and applied it to the moss yard.
