Re: OT wildlife

Our local animal control people use those Hav-a-hart traps and a can of
sardines to get rid of any skunks that get over here.  Don't know what they
do w/ them, didn't ask.

On 8/31/07, Judy Browning <judylee@lewiston.com> wrote:
>
> The skunks venture out at night. If you look you can see little narrow
> trails where they walk. Obtain a SMALL live trap. Bait it with dry cat
> food
> and peanut butter and place across one of their trails. It's importanat to
> get a small trap so he/she can't lift tail & spray in the trap. If you are
> tender hearted find a place to release them. A long string attached to the
> release works. It may take him/her a few minutes to realize the trap is
> open
> & leave. This went well for us until one pooped & peed enroute. Almost as
> stinky as the  spray.
> Repeat this process until you haven't caught a skunk for several nights.
> When we kept bees, skunks would scratch on a hive to rouse the bees, then
> eat them as they came out to defend. Probably why a lot of beekeepers put
> their hive boxes up on a stand.
> We rented the trap from local fish & game. They showed Ed how to set &
> bait
> the trap. They recommend drowning the skunk in the trap by dropping the
> whole thing into a garbage can full of water.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 6:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT wildlife
>
>
> > When you find out what to do, let ME know because we have skunks out
> here
> > all the time that find some way to get under our bunkhouse - and STAY -
> > for way too long.
> >
> >
> > Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
> >  re wildlife... I have what I believe to be a skunk. Can't tell where,
> but
> > somewhere around the front of my house. Possibly under the porch? It
> > stinks out in front, not all the time but periodically, everyday, you
> > smell
> > it. I originally thought something was dead and I was just unable to
> > locate
> > the carcass, but after a month now, I just want it gone. What do I do?
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Zone 5
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From:
> > To:
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:39 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] OT wildlife
> >
> >
> >> Just looked out the front window to see a stately procession of
> >> two adult and five juvenile turkeys progressing slowly through
> >> the driveway and around the house. Now they are moving
> >> slowly down the back hillside to the vegetable garden. I'd guess
> >> it is two "clutches" as two of the young seem smaller than the
> >> other three, and both adults are females.
> >> Of course deer are constant visitors, even coming up the front
> >> steps and going through the breezeway. The otters were back
> >> in the pond this week. Muskrats and groundhogs, to say nothing
> >> of raccoons, also live here, and we see an occasional turtle, but
> >> I think turkeys are the weirdest-looking beasts that we see. Even
> >> weirder than the occasional great blue heron.
> >> Auralie
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Jesse R. Bell
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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