Re: OT wildlife

Skunks are a real nuisance here. Mostly because 1)the roaming dogs annoy them, 2)people leave their cat & dog food on the ground, 3)fruit trees drop lots of food on the ground 4)skunk population explosion due to abundant food 
Almost every shed and outbuilding here has a population
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrea Hodges" <andreah@hargray.com> 
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eeewwww........... local fish and game recommended drowning? That's awful.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com> 
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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> 
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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
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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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