diaster averted .........I hope

[300UGUY]

It sounds cruel, but sometimes if you get a skunk in a trap, then simply leave it alone. After about 3 days, the skunk is dehydrated enough to be unconscious.

 

[The Deerslayer]

It sounds cruel, but sometimes if you get a skunk in a trap, then simply leave it alone. After about 3 days, the skunk is dehydrated enough to be unconscious.

I agree...it does sound and is cruel. Dispatch the animal if legal to do so by the quickest means possible. No need for the animal to suffer.

 

[Western]

Why do people post Jast Saying? I see that a lot.

Basically the same as "FWIW", but less condescending, just say'n

I agree...it does sound and is cruel. Dispatch the animal if legal to do so by the quickest means possible. No need for the animal to suffer.

Pretty quick under a cover and hooked up to the tail pipe. In Texas you need a permit to transport a "captured game animal", but if it is a "nuisance it can be dealt with by any means. (in a nut shell)

 

[dmccarty]

FWIW,

I can't remember if the law applied to all animals, but I know it is illegal in NC dump beaver, and I think tree rats, on other people's property, just say'n.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Dang Lock, you trap a Smell Squirter on the porch in the wee hours of the morning and then post about it on TBN? I thought I needed help for my TBN addiction. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I hope the Smell Squirter does not come back. We have been dang lucky to not have had a problem with them at our place. I have only seen ONE coon and ONE SS at our place. I saw them both within an hour one late afternoon when I put some beer I was making on the porch to cool off. Those two critters smelled the sugar in the wort and they were both making a bee line to the 5 gallon bucket. :shocked: Good thing I saw them or they would have ruined hours worth of work.

FWIW, I would have posted the story on TBN if they had gotten into my beer to be. Just say'n. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[/pine]

Why do people post Jast Saying? I see that a lot.

Generally it means that they are not implying anything beyond the statement etc... i.e., not judging or ridiculing etc...can also mean that the user is not trying to play teacher...

 

[oosik]

Just shoot the darn thing. There are plenty more where he came from. Get a heavy metal trash container with a "hard locking" lid and find somewhere else or some other means to feed the wood peckers. You are creating your own problems with the bird feeding and garbage storage. I usually end up shooting one or two skunks every fall when the apples in the orchard get ripe. I've never shot a coon - they only take their share of the apples.

 

[lockhaven]

first off I will continue to feed the birds, sorry if some thought I was complaining about the coons. I know how to fix the situation. I had one about 15 years ago that got into the habit of feeding off my trash can he died and I did not have a problem until about a week ago. The two current coons will also die, as far as any game laws violated I appreciate the concern but I do not care much about some game laws. The reason for the do not shoot in a trap law is to protect the fur trappers lively hood nothing will spoil a good fox set like blood from a shot animal. Nothing spoils a good hide like a hole in it. I do not mind the skunk they eat bugs and mice and as I said from my trail camera history he is not a resident. If I get a chance the coon will be shot no problem there but normally at 3AM I am sleeping and that is their time of visiting so far according to the camera. Thanks for the good advice about skunks not climbing we do not have many around here and I was not sure.

 

[murphy1244]

Generally it means that they are not implying anything beyond the statement etc... i.e., not judging or ridiculing etc...can also mean that the user is not trying to play teacher...

Thanks Pine, I often wondered about that

 

[Daver1963]

Best wishes. If worse comes o worse, I've heard that Tomato Juice works.

Is that for the skunk to wash down the suet?
I wonder if the skunk would smack his head and go "I coulda had a V-8!"

 

[RSKY]

We've been back in our house for a week or so after being out for ten days due to a skunk spraying underneath it. So believe me when I tell you to eliminate the critters, if you release them they will come back. And make sure they cannot get under or in your house. Our ten days in an apartment and other expenses added up to more than $4000, well $1000 for me, the remainder for the insurance company. One couple in our community was out of town for two weeks. When they returned home a skunk had got under the house, torn down the flexible ductwork, got in the vents and in the house and sprayed. Our insurance adjuster told us that the people would have been better off if their house had burned. Before we could get out of the house the night it sprayed we had to run back in, me to get keys and my wife her purse. We could both TASTE it. The smell was that strong.

I caught three of the little stinkers. The local "skunk catcher" put my traps in black trashbags. The skunk can't see you and so will not spray. The first I caught was in that trap and I carried it to the middle of the back yard and shot it. Had to throw the trap away with the skunk in it. The second one was a large male. He had tore the trash bag into little pieces and was not happy. I had a short cable attached to the trap but every time I would start to the trap the skunk would start hissing and pawing the ground with his tail held up high. The trap was right up against the house and we had been out for five days and I didn't want it to spray. It was also right up against the central air unit. So I climbed on top of the unit and shot down at the critter. I then made the worst mistake of the two week ordeal. I took my shotgun inside the house and warmed my hands for a few minutes. When I went back out he had released all his scent oil. After taking him off I went back in the house and had to leave because of the smell. The third trap I tied a 50' nylon rope to so I could drag it out in the cornfield behind the house. The skunk chewed the rope apart. So I had to use the sheet trick were you hold up a sheet and walk up to the trap and cover it with the sheet. If the skunk can't see you, he won't spray. Oh yeah, had to throw away the shoes I had on when the second skunk was trapped. Apparently I stepped in the oil and nothing will remove the smell. Kept them outside for three weeks and it seemed they smelled worse ever time I checked them.

Believe me, you don't want to go thru an ordeal like we have had.

RSKY