Re: ??????
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  • Subject: Re: ??????
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:37:45 -0600
Auralie - so sorry to hear about your trees, big ice storm up there?

On 3/8/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
> As long as you have indoor animals, skunks are not a problem.
> Even if you keep the dogs in at night, it should be all right - in
> more than 40 years we have never had an animal - this time a
> cat - sprayed by a skunk.  When they walk by at night they
> really only leave a faint odor.  That's a small price to pay for
> the way they dig out yellow-jacket nests.  Now there's a problem -
> yellow-jackets can do real damage, and a lot of people seem to
> be allergic to them.
> Auralie
>
>
>
> In a message dated 3/8/2010 11:47:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> justjess01@gmail.com writes:
>
> You would only want a skunk around if it was "de-pewed" Bonnie. (which
> is against the law because it is their only form of defense in the
> wild)  The guys renting our bunkhouse have trapped 12 of them this
> spring.  They carry rabies, and the weird thing is, rabies will not
> kill a skunk, but they can be carriers of it.  And they stink to high
> heaven.  At three o'clock in the morning they ran our guys out of that
> house and they threw up from the smell.  A couple of them got UNDER
> the bunkhouse and it must have been two males fighting...but you could
> smell that for almost a WEEK.  They had to air out the house.
>
>
> On 3/7/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Saw a very interesting program on skunks the other night. Fascinating.
> > Didn't know that a mountain lion or rattler wouldn't bother a skunk. In
> > fact, rattlers will actually hide from them as skunks will kill them.
> > They will also eat bees and yellow jackets. Don't think I would mind
> > having one around but we have dogs.
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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