Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
| Messages 1 - 83 of total 83 in this topic |
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 26, 2016 - 08:42am PT
|
The Skunk is on the back burner for today, but traps have been set for three nights now with no results. He/she is living under my deck, taking over my backyard, and has stunk up my house. It's been there since Sunday. It laughs at me every time I spot it in the yard and then it runs back under the deck. My poor dogs hate me because I can't go back there and let them run around unattended.
Meanwhile my water heater is leaking and ready to blow, so I've got to deal with that first.
If anybody has any helpful skunk removal suggestions please let me know. I've read about plenty already and have listened to some doozies, but don't want to take a flamethrower to the little critter just yet. I know I'm gonna get an eyefull of trolls on this one.
|
|
survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:45am PT
|
Hahahahaaaa!!! Great thread title!!
I'm sorry to laugh bro, but that's just hilarious.
It's that time of year here in the foothills. They're out trolling for bishes every night it seems.....
|
|
skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:45am PT
|
I'm surprised your dogs haven't dealt with the thing. I usually find out we've had a skunk when my dog smells like one nailed her. Then I find it dead in the back.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:51am PT
|
My money is on her really getting yer goat when you find out she's had a litter of wee darlings.
|
|
AP
Trad climber
Calgary
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:53am PT
|
Try putting an open container of ammonia under the deck (or is it bleach????) Check on the Internet
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 08:54am PT
|
I had mama skunk and babies under the house. My cat hung out with them, no problems.
I didn't want them there so I lit several cones of incense and put them under the house. The skunks moved on.
Was incense the cause? Can't say for sure.
Incense also seems to work on gophers.
Use this type. It's easier to place.
EDIT:
Don't forget to use a flame to light them!
|
|
Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 09:05am PT
|
Smoke.... the answer for skunk. Climbing anyone?
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 09:20am PT
|
My exterminator was here recently and we talked about skunks and coons. He won't even
deal with them any more, except for a really good customer, because the PC crowd has made
so many stoopid ordinances concerning them. He can't relocate them any longer - he has to
release them within a few blocks of where he caught them so what's the phukking point?
|
|
Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 09:28am PT
|
I used to relocate trapped ground squirrels, too, until they made it illegal. I'd take them to the other side of The 10, and turn them loose in the yards of a couple vacant McMansions that won't sell.
Now, to be legal and everything, I have to humanely euthanize them.
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 09:36am PT
|
Just burn your house down it will get rid of them perfectly ......
|
|
mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 10:12am PT
|
Put drano in a bowl of coca cola under the deck.
They love the taste.
Problem solved.
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2016 - 12:18pm PT
|
I'm confused...
do I drink the Drano Cola before or after I burn my house down?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 12:26pm PT
|
Send me your skunk and I will personally smoke it to get rid of it for you.
It will never know what or who hit it.
Do not send roaches...I have plenty.
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 12:50pm PT
|
hey there say, bushman... there might be another thread here, is lots of info on the skunk type situations...
also, too, i will see what i can find, later...
can't you enclose the under-deck, or is that too much for finances, :(
many articles mention making your area around house, unpleasant for the skunk, and it will leave on its own...
best wishes, for solving this...
:)
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2679644&tn=20
will try to share links, later...
|
|
thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 02:03pm PT
|
no, no, no, you've got this all wrong. just smoke out with the skunk, don't drink Coca-cola or start any fires.
mothballs at yard entry points, regular and vigorous canine harassment (peroxide, baking soda + Dawn = gud), bricked-over burrows did the trick for me. you ain't no Penelope Pussycat, so don't keep bendin' over....just warsh that garlick-assszsssss off your doggies and get after it.
|
|
nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 03:40pm PT
|
*
A friend of mine put a radio under her deck/house and blasted some rock music all night...The skunk went to the neighbors house .
|
|
matisse
climber
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 03:59pm PT
|
I feel your pain. I had one in the crawlspace of my rental property. We gut skunked pretty bad and I had to move out for 3 weeks.
As others have said ammonia works.
I believe my landlord poured something absurd like 11 gallons under the house..but it worked!
|
|
justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 05:26pm PT
|
Stupid skunks. They can be devious. If you stalk him right at sunset there's usually a specific place they like to exit from under the house. You can block any exits with plywood and try to force it into a trap.
I had a whole family of them move in under the palates of a temporary shed I erected for an art show one time. Kinda freaky having to walk over them in the daytime with their fur poking out of the slats. Fortunately they are groggy in the daytime and no one got sprayed, but they stunk up all my stock. I waited for them to exit out their hole in the back one night and boarded up the opening. Unfortunately they were smart enough to just wait outside the front door in the morning and raced in the minute I opened the door. Really freaky tearing the shed down with them still living in there at the end of the show.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 05:51pm PT
|
Shoot it in the face.
|
|
Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
|
|
|
Jan 26, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
|
Mothballs worked for me.
|
|
Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 03:36pm PT
|
Those dang Kashinagins just won't go away!
ENOUGH! JUST GO AWAY!
I like the idea of using incense. It was invented to ward off insects and repel vermin.
Even an old idea can be relevant today.
In high school, my faux-clever friends would light that stuff up to announce, "We're smoking dope in the bedroom!"
When the US Army blasted rock music to flush Manuel Noriega from his hiding place in the Panama City Apostolic Nunciature it was so obnoxious, the Pope appealed to President Bush to turn off the noise.
My gopher-eradicator might work for you, if the space is enclosed enough. Take a lawn mower, or similar small gas engine, and duct the exhaust under the deck. Carbon monoxide is an insidious poison that sneaks up on its victims, and painlessly puts them to permanent sleep. Texas DOC: are you listening?
|
|
hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 06:14pm PT
|
that's why God gave you teeth
|
|
stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 08:35pm PT
|
The Malheur militia is looking for a new place to occupy. Put the word out you have federal skunks.
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 09:01pm PT
|
We had wood stoves and added a T joint at the base of the chimney beyond the clean out ,
and mettle dryer tubing to direct a small amount of smoke, into the dirt floor under a cottage,
and ran a radio off an extension cord that we could unplug .
But I found this
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Skunks
|
|
fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 09:12pm PT
|
A good full can of UDAP Bear mace into the den will usually work. Careful of blowback though and make sure your house is sealed from the outside 100%.
Non-rabid skunks are very smart and will leave given enough motivation. Mace provides that motivation if you don't want to or can't shoot them.
We were inundated with those striped bastards a few years ago. It was absolutely insane. Three different groups. They kicked out my favorite foxes and evicted a HUGE groundhog from it's den. Nothing touches them except 22LR.... The local pest guys can't legally remove them from the properties here so they DROWN them onsite once trapped. That's pretty damn cruel IMO. .22 to the head is much quicker(note that they still spray.
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
|
Taking all this is in, thanks everybody.
I installed the water heater today and plan on skunk diving by Saturday
22 in hand if need be.
So keep em coming, your ideas, most not so bad.
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 09:34pm PT
|
In the meantime, I've had traps, mothballs, pans full of ammonia,
lighting, and rock music blasting under my backyard deck for three nights now...i'm going to start taking up deck boards and if he's under there my 22 is locked and loaded...
Dead skunk = stinky Bushman!
|
|
crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 11:25pm PT
|
Skunks like bacon. We used to load box traps with bacon and catch them. Animal control would take and release them elsewhere....but they'll spray....
|
|
nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
|
|
|
Jan 27, 2016 - 11:35pm PT
|
*
poor little skunk...so cute, so stinky, so not wanted at your home....My vote..a have a heart trap..
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 03:28am PT
|
I used to have 3 pet skunks. Their mother was hit by a car, and I raised the three babies. Used an eye dropper to give them formula.
They never did get totally tame. I got sprayed a lot. If you moved suddenly - BAM!
They're actually very clean animals, more like cats than dogs.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 04:14am PT
|
“Skunked So Far”
Skunk’s under the house
Partyin’ with Mouse
Can’t make him move
When he’s in the groove
If you wanna know
What’ll make him go
Toss in a duck
It might bring you luck
If that’s not enough
Well that’s just tough
And I have no clue
What else you could do
Cuz he's just a drunk
Yes, a very drunk skunk.
MFM
http://atlatl-darts.com/coonskinhat.htm
|
|
Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 08:31am PT
|
One year, I slow-cooked a Thanksgiving turkey so completely, all the meat just fell right off the bones. So, I broke the bare carcass into a half-dozen pieces, and put them in the backyard. From the upper deck, I watched a cute family of skunks (mama, and a few babies) come and go, taking one piece at a time, until all the turkey bones were gone. I never got sprayed, and I never smelled them.
Wait.
Now, I remember.
They were RACOONS, not skunks. And they repaid my kindness by never getting into my trash cans, just the neighbors'.
Skunks?
Mace or gas those smelly M-Fs.
Promise them bacon, and then pay them with lead.
Wrap a fox terrier with Saran Wrap, and turn him loose.
Blast a super-bright LED flashlight, on blink-mode, day and night, at them.
Shock and awe them with a handful of flash-bang grenades.
Screw a hose to your new water heater, and spray them, for a change.
Get that deer-repellent spray that smells like mountain lions (or is that worse than a skunk?).
Wave a Roman cross and chant, "The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you."
Get those waddling toxic waste receptacles out of there, right now.
In my neighborhood, I wouldn't be able to use the .22LR method, and stay out of jail.
I'd have to get a box of subsonics, and make a Maxim multi-disk device.
|
|
overwatch
climber
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 08:34am PT
|
Thread title cracks me up.
Turtleman...live action! I love that guy
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2016 - 08:44am PT
|
Wave a Roman cross and chant, "The power of Christ compels you." Thanks Tom, that one really cracked me up!
Bacon raw or cooked?
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 02:34pm PT
|
Nita, what did the neighbors play?
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
|
hey there say, jaybro...
:)
|
|
nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 02:44pm PT
|
*
Jaybro..Lol...............Metallica, Kiss & AC/DC......
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 07:00pm PT
|
Oh, yeah! Put another skunk on the barbie and let's party down!
Nah nah nah nah!!!!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
How 'bout some Mashed Potatoes with that?
|
|
Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
|
|
|
Jan 28, 2016 - 08:49pm PT
|
bleach.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 07:29am PT
|
I'm surprised that nobody has suggested a drone or one of those RC ATV thingies like the
Army uses to check out booby-trapped houses in Iraq.
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2016 - 08:21am PT
|
Miniature mechanical IED Mole-bot...
(Tiny RC tank with cam, excavator arm, and explosive charge)
I'm on it.
|
|
fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 08:36am PT
|
Spent some quality time last night stalking our latest stinky striped scourge. After an hour in the dark waiting outside it's rocky den with no sightings I opted to dump a $50 canister of bear spray into there.
Seemed to upset it a great deal.
Hopefully it will vacate for good because door #2 is much less pleasant.
|
|
skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 09:04am PT
|
Are you still enabling that skunk?
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2016 - 09:29am PT
|
Skunk deterrents in place, I've been too busy with work and other priorities to really get after it...
Smell has dissipated markedly but tomorrow with the day off, the hunt is on to see if mr/mrs Skunk is still under there and if so, eviction procedures could be severe, and in earnest.
Will post further developments.
-bushman out
|
|
crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
|
Bushman,
Raw bacon wrapped around peanut butter, according to my Mom. We at the base of the Santa Monica mountains so being part of the City of Los Angeles animal control provided the traps (trap door basic cages) and when the skunks were caught (you'd know, they sprayed), they'd come and get them. They eventually either all got moved or got smart and went elsewhere.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 02:13pm PT
|
If I can't shoot it, then a 160 coni-box with wet cat food in the back is how I roll. Boom
|
|
boognish
Trad climber
SLC
|
|
|
Jan 29, 2016 - 09:47pm PT
|
Not rock music at night. You need BASE. Heavy thumping base music. And not at night when they are out prowling, but all day long while they are home trying to sleep. I had one in the chimney and would leave the speakers on 11 all day when I was out at work.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2016 - 08:59am PT
|
Here is today's offering. I just saved 15 ducklings. Trapping season is upon us.
|
|
nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2016 - 09:25am PT
|
*
Bongnish, You are probably right about the base music...I really didn't ask my friend what kind of music she played, i just knew it was loud non stop music aimed under the house/porch...
Thanks for clarifying.....
|
|
Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
|
|
|
Jan 30, 2016 - 11:37am PT
|
Try using some Slayer - very anti-Skunketic
I'd advise earplugs - the lyrics can be horrible
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2016 - 04:21pm PT
|
Without going into great detail, Mr/Mrs Skunk was trapped and relocated today. My wife is happy and the dogs are free to roam skunk free until the next skunk comes along. Maybe I'll let them deal with it next time. They were skunked a few years ago and they survived, and the critter never moved under the deck that time. I must be getting too soft on those dogs, the doting grandpa syndrome I guess.
|
|
Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
|
|
|
Jan 31, 2016 - 04:25pm PT
|
But bushman , don't tease us with sparse details, we need dirt, and smell👍😜
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2016 - 04:32pm PT
|
Perhaps in a few days, after I've calmed from the PMSRD
(Post Maniacal Skunk Removal Disorder).
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
Surfing around the net today, seeking info on Evelyn "Otheto" Stoddard Weston, an artist and photographer of the Mother Lode, I ran across this tidbit on another photographer, Brett Weston, one of Edward Weston's four sons. Brett was married and divorced four times. I've found two of his wives and am wondering if he may have been married to Otheto.
So far, I've been "skunked" in my search for the other two wives.
The reason I am searching is that I've never heard of her or her work till today, when I lucked into a copy of her Mother Lode Album, second printing, 1948.
http://www.fotogpedia.com/brett-weston.htm
At any rate, here is the tidbit from the above link.
The Rumor Mill
The rumor mill has churned up a few almost biographical details similar to facts, but not really regarding Brett Weston. And the almost fact is that Brett Weston once, under the haze of over the counter sleeping medications, shaved the stripe off a skunk without any payback whatsoever.
|
|
skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
|
|
Next time, just buy it a one way ticket to Laguna Beach. They are all over the place there; gangs of skunks roaming the streets at night ...They particularly like the old OJ Simpsons place near Victoria Beach.
|
|
High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
|
|
Escopeta, curious how you set up your trap there. Does it just sit on the ground? What role does the box play? Is the trap set somehow in front of the box? Thanks.
Is that your set-up? Or is that an internet image?
I used to have one of those kind of traps, about 40 years ago.
As part of a different lifestyle as a youth.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
HFCS,
Apologies as I'm just now seeing your questions.
That is my image, not an internet image. And I catch a LOT of skunks (although often in different methods than the one posted)
That setup you see there is not much more than a box, sized to fit the overall opening of the trap which, frankly, operates much like a big rat trap. When the skunk enters the box for the bait the trap closes with immediacy and incredible force.
One end of the box (the one you can't see in the photo) is covered with hardware cloth (aka wire mesh) forcing the critter to enter via the side guarded with the trap.
Its quite simple and very effective. However, I would be remiss if I didn't at least point out that these traps are dangerous. They are not to be trifled with and can easily hurt or injure their owner, their owner's pets and so forth. It is a very common method for raccoon trapping in the Midwest but ethical trappers only practice this in the most remote of areas, and they often take additional precautions to ensure the trap is focused on raccoons.
While I might consider the dispatch of a free roaming cat on my private property to be a +1 for the environment, I'm well aware that others don't share that view so I mention the need for clear discretion when employing these methods. I am not alone in considering it bad form to employ these tactics outside of private property or in high traffic areas.
Thanks you for asking because I had meant to come back to add that disclaimer anyway and it slipped my mind.
|
|
High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
|
|
Escopeta, thanks for the reply.
So one more question, it's still more or less the same one but now w more clarity. Do the slots in the box play a role somehow (eg, to hold the iron trap some way)? and/or is the iron trap simply placed on the ground in front of the wooden box? Thanks again. Just curious is all.
Here's more or less your iron trap type. Right?
When I had a couple, I just placed them horizontally on the ground. Isn't that the (only) way? With bits of food in the center?
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
Yes that is essentially the trap. I use a different type trigger system but that's it's. The slots on the box allow for the trap to be set back further into the opening.
Not only do the slots serve the purpose of holding the trap but also allows the trap to be recessed into the box which greatly reduces the likelihood of an incidental catch.
While perhaps back in the day you might just put the trap down with some bait, that type of action would be summarily panned by a modern trapper. The goal is to trap your target animal so using appropriate bait combined with proper technique is critical. Just laying a trap like this on the ground would be irresponsible and is not even something I would do on my own private property. YOMV
Like everything, the use of traps is managed, outlawed, regulated, or otherwise controlled so the rules and best practices vary by state.
Here is today's catch. A very, very large male skunk with outstanding fur. in addition to saving countless ground nesting eggs, he will become a part of a pair of atv mittens for my wife.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
Now that I re-read your question, I think taking a picture of the setup without a catch blocking the view would prove instructional. Will prob have to wait till tomorrow but will do.
|
|
High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
|
|
Thanks again, Escopeta.
I researched it and have it figured out, I think. For the most part.
For example, I googled bridger body gripper traps.
Happy skunking!
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
Right. You will find the traps referred to as Conibear or BodyGrip trap.
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
|
Turnabout's Fair Play
To be a skunk trapped in a trap
You'll shiver and when you hear the snap
Likely I'll be not as I wish
A lowly snail that I had squished...
-bushman
02/06/2016
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2016 - 10:08am PT
|
Bushman 2, Skunks 0
Caught another skunk Friday night and discovered it there yesterday. Wire cage humane trap with tarp covering it for secure tunnel feel is getting them and bacon or cat food both work so far.
Move slow and keep the tarp on the trap and they won't spray even while loading and transporting. It was nerve wracking the first time and I thought that the skunk would spray during the eviction. But last night after relocating another stinky friend it felt easier.
Drove 12 miles away with my odoriferous passenger in the back of the pickup and let him out of the trap on the side of a backroad in the boonies near the Consumnes River (my new skunk release location). Carefully, slowly opened the back of the trap and after two minutes he realized it was open and was off like the wind, no muss no fuss. Better than shooting them or gassing them, or dealing with their spray, I think.
Bye bye for now Pepé...
|
|
ec
climber
ca
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 01:42pm PT
|
Don't want to really admit any relation, but some cousin-in-laws had some skunkies residing under their house. One of them, the 'great hunter' got out his rifle and kilt dem all from the crawl space opening. Of course, this was not without a tremendous 'outpouring of grief' from the skunkies' bladders. The interior of the house wreaked worse than when they were alive. So, brilliantly, he placed a sleeping bag over the old-school floor heater to block the smell...Frickin' burned down the house while they were out of the house the next day. 'Fixed that problem for good!
 ec
|
|
Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 02:08pm PT
|
We can learn so many wonderful things on this forum.
This place is better than Wikipedia.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 06:16pm PT
|
Bushman,
There is a reason why most professional firms are forbidden by law to release a skunk alive.
I'm up to 12 in 15 days.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
|
There is a reason why most professional firms are forbidden by law to release a skunk alive.
It's the wildlife version of school busing.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
|
There is a reason why most professional firms are forbidden by law to release a skunk alive.
It's the wildlife version of school busing.
Well, yes, there's that.
But in reality, skunks, foxes, coons and groundhogs are all rabies vector animals (animals that can carry but not exhibit signs of rabies) So they are normally dispatched in an effort to reduce the possibility of spreading rabies unknowingly. Oh, and bats too.
|
|
Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
|
|
|
Feb 28, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
|
I find myself in agreement with Escopeta.
Ever since we "enjoyed" the "drunk" skunk who emerged mid-afternoon back in 1991 to join our first party with guests here in Choss Creek, I have known rabid skunks are endemic in the rural (and likely urban) west.
A few years back a teenaged girl was bit by a rabid skunk in a nearby rural town. (we have speculated on how a teenaged girl could be approached and then bit by a rabid skunk, but the news articles did not share details.)
I tell you, shoot them, just behind the head, to break the spinel cord, and they won't spray-------if your shot is just right.
And don't hug your hopefully vaccinated dog for a few days after it kills a skunk, and don't lick your hands after handling dead wild creatures.
|
|
JohnnyG
climber
|
|
|
Feb 29, 2016 - 07:50am PT
|
have you tried ammonia soaked rags in the skunk's burrow?
I had one living under my porch, used this trick as suggested by Boulder Animal Control, and never saw the skunk again
Although trapping is kind of cool.
-J
p.s. anyone know how to get squirrels out of my attic?
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Feb 29, 2016 - 08:16am PT
|
p.s. anyone know how to get squirrels out of my attic?
Shoot em in the face!
No, seriously, you can trap squirrels too. Probably easier than skunks.
Two schools of thought here, one is you can simply nail a good old rat trap to a tree, bait it with peanut butter, and you will find yourself with a dead squirrel. Use the victor rat traps with the yellow square pan/treadle - not the little metal jobber.
Other way is with a cage trap, sold at just about any farm and home store, baited similarly.
But honestly, if you don't spend the time to find out where they are coming or going, you will find yourself in a demented version of groundhog day.
Or, you can use this. Which happens to be my preferred method.
http://www.airforceairguns.com/TalonSS-s/38.htm
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Feb 29, 2016 - 12:40pm PT
|
Sighted that puppy in today after a barrel change.
I think its ready for some squirrel work. 5 shot group
|
|
Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 29, 2016 - 05:18pm PT
|
So I'm supposed to shoot the skunk in the back of the head while it's trapped in the cage?
I just have a hard time bringing myself to doing it. My wife says I'm getting too soft hearted. When I first moved out here I had a neighbor that was so horrible most of the rest of us in the neighborhood have been waiting for her to die. She looks like she's dead already and I even wrote a poem about her called 'The Murdering Old Whore.'
Well she's not dead yet, but I have often thought about building a pumpkin mortar and firing dead skunks and possums into the air across the road to try and drop one down her chimney. Might make a good use for dead skunks after all if I can bring myself to shoot them.
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Aug 17, 2016 - 05:48pm PT
|
Ho it is so long ago,
now when I drive down a very busy street,
that has grown traffic lights,
I smell skunk,.... No road kill insight?
Hey I know that smell.. sniff ,,,, N'big sifffffph?
oh, hell, its someones vented attic grow......
To Cute by half, (In french though) = trop mignon moitié
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
|
|
|
Aug 18, 2016 - 05:10am PT
|
So I'm supposed to shoot the skunk in the back of the head while it's trapped in the cage
No.
You are supposed to administer what the D.O.C. should be using when the court hands down an order of humane execution of an especially obnoxious malcreant:
CARBON MONOXIDE
|
|
thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
|
|
|
Aug 18, 2016 - 05:15am PT
|
Mothballs, bags of 'em, dumped directly into the burrow worked for me.
|
|
Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
|
|
|
Aug 18, 2016 - 05:59am PT
|
Most people that trap large numbers of skunks use lethal injection. Quick, painless and no spray.
But something tells me most the retards on here would rather take it down the road and release it. NIMBY rules the day.
EDIT: Hey look, bravecowboy posting on another non-climbing thread. Do you even climb bro?
|
|
fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
|
|
|
Aug 18, 2016 - 06:15am PT
|
On the topic of skunks...
Had a 20+ pound groundhog battling it out a few nights ago with a skunk right in the frontyard maybe 10 meters from the bedroom window. Epic battle where much fur was lost.
Groundhog won and kept ownership of his newly dug lodge! Now I just need to import more hogs. They're entertaining and don't stink...
|
|
Floorabove
climber
The Gunks y'all
|
|
|
Aug 18, 2016 - 06:41am PT
|
Use a rope to drag the trapped skunk into a pond. Come back later.
Skunk lives matter Bro!
|
|
| Messages 1 - 83 of total 83 in this topic |
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!