Re: OT wildlife

? What, is their trash sitting out all the time? Here, my pickup is Wednesday, so I'm allowed to have my trash container at the curb from noon Tuesday through noon Thursday, not that everyone observes this. I keep mine in the garage until about 9pm Tues. If they come b4 I go to work, I put it back then, otherwise at 5pm Wed. (If I had a bear problem, I'd try to narrow the window more) If I have anything metal though, I put it out earlier so someone can take it. People regularly cruise the neighborhoods b4 trash days to scavenge metal items. It's better than having them rip the copper gutters off the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception downtown. Talk about wildlife. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Betsy Kelson" <bkelson@ix.netcom.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT wildlife



Zem,
       You need to say it. In Aspen, the late frosts killed most of the
food supply for the bears. 7 bears have been "removed" because they either
got into people's homes or garbage cans. I think it would be so simple to
NOT put your trash out until the day of the pick up, but many do not want
that inconvenience before heading off to work. Sigh...poor bears

betsy
evergreen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zemuly@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:11 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>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
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>
> 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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