Skunk Works!?!

On Wed, 05 May 2004 15:31:58 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

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:Any suggestions on how to keep skunks out of the hanger???
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:Richard

This is a complete guess.

Last year I had deer coming out of the hills and eating my roses. I
couldn't legally kill them - and with the neighbors so close, the only
way I could have safely killed them was with poison, and then the meat
would have been worthless, etc. I tried cayenne pepper, mint,
mothballs. "Deer repellant" seemed to attract them.

Finally I flashed on the idea of getting something that they'd be
afraid of. The local zoo has tigers, I have a contact that raises
money for them - a few handfulls of straw soaked with tiger ****
spread around and they haven't been back.

Maybe that would work with skunks. Or wolf ****.

On Wed, 05 May 2004 21:41:24 -0700, richard riley
wrote:

Finally I flashed on the idea of getting something that they'd be
afraid of. The local zoo has tigers, I have a contact that raises
money for them - a few handfulls of straw soaked with tiger ****
spread around and they haven't been back.

Maybe that would work with skunks. Or wolf ****.

Not sure this would work Richard, skunks don't fear much because very
few carnivores eat them. Owls are one exception. Deer fear every
carnivore (especially panthers), they are basically meat on the hoof
for all of them. So anything that smells like panther **** would make
them really nervous.

Skunks on the otherhand are given a wide berth, as I mentioned, by
most carnivores so they have nothing to fear from panther ****. Owls
don't have much in the way of smell, they hunt by vision and sound, so
a REALLY stinky dinner doesn't bother them. It might be interesting
to see the reaction of a skunk to the hoot of a local owl.

Corky Scott

After all else has failed, the stupid thing walked into
an unbaited live trap....

Go figure...


Richard Lamb

Richard

If you have only one, take him in and have decented. Am told they
make wonderful pets.

Big John



On Thu, 06 May 2004 14:41:49 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

After all else has failed, the stupid thing walked into
an unbaited live trap....

Go figure...


Richard Lamb

In Big John wrote:

If you have only one, take him in and have decented. Am told they
make wonderful pets.

The guy who manages the Bearhawk email group has a couple of orphaned
skunks that he raised from babies. It is my understanding that they
have not been descented, and that it isn't a problem. It does bring new
meaning to the expression, "emergency descent" however.

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Big John wrote:

Richard

If you have only one, take him in and have decented. Am told they
make wonderful pets.

Big John


Great Idea (tm), John.
You gonna house break her for me?


On Thu, 06 May 2004 14:41:49 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

After all else has failed, the stupid thing walked into
an unbaited live trap....

Go figure...


Richard Lamb

On Thu, 06 May 2004 10:09:02 -0400, charles.k.scott wrote:

Skunks on the otherhand are given a wide berth, as I mentioned, by most
carnivores so they have nothing to fear from panther ****. Owls don't
have much in the way of smell, they hunt by vision and sound, so a REALLY
stinky dinner doesn't bother them. It might be interesting to see the
reaction of a skunk to the hoot of a local owl.

Corky Scott

One of my coworkers was going for a run on some trails awhile back and he
saw a skunk in the trail ahead of him. He wanted to get it out of the
way, so he threw a rock at it to scare it off. The skunk started running
straight towards him! Jim says he learned that he can run really, really
fast when he is properly motivated.

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