Re: OT wildlife

If we all kept our thoughts to ourselves, what would be the point in having the lisT?
The woman at the desk behind me mentioned seeing a spider at home and told of how she yelled to her husband to hurry up and get the spray to kill it. I asked why, especially since it was outside where spiders should be. She said she hates spiders. Why? Was bitten by one once. Geez. I tried explaining balance to her, to no avail.
Kids next door were screaming Spider! Kill it! I asked why? Spiders are bad. No they're not. And you certainly don't need a baseball bat to kill a spider.
I'm not interested in killing the skunk (if that's what it is - I haven't seen any little narrow trails) when I do find it; just want to suggest to it that it would be nice if it moved on to somebody else' porch. I'll just live with it there until the foliage dies back a bit so I can get to the latticework. If he's there, I hope to scare him off. If he's not; I'll seal the porch off w hardware cloth while he's gone. 

On the other hand...DEATH TO MOSQUITOES EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zemuly@comcast.net> 
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT wildlife
I could never kill anything just because it inconvenienced me. I think I'm getting more radical in that way as I get older, or maybe it's because I meet so many people whose first reaction is to kill something because they don't want to deal with it. A lot of animal problems here anyway are the result of development without regard to anything but making money and people moving to the "country" without realizing that it's not the city. I should probably just keep my thoughts to myself. 
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com> 
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT wildlife
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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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
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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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