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[Bob_Skurka]

There are apparently a lot of folks around here who used to paint their black cats. . . Smell some, too. Don't know what they've been eatin'.

Maybe they've been eating at the same trough as the M-I-L

 

[rback33]

Scary enough, the MIL and FIL are here to paint my house.. wonder if I can convince my FIL to paint the MIL on "accident"...

 

[roxynoodle]

What color are you painting the house and the MIL?

I had one of those striped cats eating all my cat food last year. Had to put up with it for a month until it went to wherever it came from. Luckily it never made me smell, too. I have a picture of it but it didn't come out very well. Cute little bugger with a white circle of fur on top of it's head like a hat. Thankfully it realized quickly I was the food provider rather than a danger to it.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Scary enough, the MIL and FIL are here to paint my house.. wonder if I can convince my FIL to paint the MIL on "accident"...

Let me know if you stumble on a method for painting the MIL. I'm wanting to paint mine with some clear enamel. Maybe that way I won't see her. Problem is, it would take a 55 gallon drum to shoot one coat. I'm not saying she's large, but first time I laid eyes on her there was a flashing GOODYEAR sign on her as she flew by.

 

[daTeacha]

I had one of those striped cats eating all my cat food last year. Had to put up with it for a month until it went to wherever it came from. Luckily it never made me smell, too. QUOTE]

You can safely live trap them. I didn't believe it until I saw a guy do just that. It seems they need to do a handstand on their front feet to share their perfume with you. With the right size box trap, they can't do that little trick so you can haul 'em off to where they won't bother anyone and let 'em go. They really are pretty friendly all things considered, but the chance of an accident makes people a little leery of the things. Some people up in Michigan used to keep one as a house pet, thinking it was deodorized. Company came once, brought their dog. Turned out the deodorizing hadn't been done after all!

 

[Farmwithjunk]

You can safely live trap them. I didn't believe it until I saw a guy do just that. It seems they need to do a handstand on their front feet to share their perfume with you. With the right size box trap, they can't do that little trick so you can haul 'em off to where they won't bother anyone and let 'em go. They really are pretty friendly all things considered, but the chance of an accident makes people a little leery of the things. Some people up in Michigan used to keep one as a house pet, thinking it was deodorized. Company came once, brought their dog. Turned out the deodorizing hadn't been done after all!

Came in from mowing to eat lunch.... I was skimming through this thread when I read this reply WITHOUT reading the first paragraph. (Quote that doesn't appear in my post) I thought you were refering to the previously mentioned MOTHER IN LAW....

I've just about cleaned all the flying cheeseburger off my keyboard and monitor now....:0

 

[neverenough]

I had one of those striped cats eating all my cat food last year. Had to put up with it for a month until it went to wherever it came from. Luckily it never made me smell, too. QUOTE]

You can safely live trap them. I didn't believe it until I saw a guy do just that. It seems they need to do a handstand on their front feet to share their perfume with you. With the right size box trap, they can't do that little trick so you can haul 'em off to where they won't bother anyone and let 'em go. They really are pretty friendly all things considered, but the chance of an accident makes people a little leery of the things. Some people up in Michigan used to keep one as a house pet, thinking it was deodorized. Company came once, brought their dog. Turned out the deodorizing hadn't been done after all!

Well, something doesn't sound quite right. We had one in our house (enclosed porch) and when we live trapped it, we threw a tarp over the trap and carried it away. About 20 ft from the house, we had tears in our eyes from the smell. Luckily the only thing that retained the odor was the tarp. That went out with the garbage. Maybe the trap was a little too big, but it was the smallest we had.

 

[daTeacha]

Did you let it tip forward so the critter was standing on end even though it was in the trap? All I know is what I saw, and every time I've seen one of the little guys getting ready to "say hello" it stood up on it's front feet. Now these are the eastern striped skunks, the western spotted ones I have no experience with. They may be related, but they aren't even in the same genus. One is "Mephitus mephitus" and the other is "Spilogale putoris".

 

[roxynoodle]

Ok, I'm not the one that said you could trap them, that was Rich. I didn't try because I figured it would still be able to spray. Also, my understanding is that the stink bag releases when they die so I didn't let anyone shoot it either. My particular skunk was hanging out on my front porch. A couple people did suggest I try to take it to the vet to be descented so I could keep it for a pet since it seemed to like me. I was not about to take a chance of bringing such a stinky critter into my truck! I was sprayed about 10 years ago during an ice storm when I went in my barn that morning to feed my horses. Apparently the skunk was seeking shelter in the barn from the ice. No sooner did I walk through the door I got hit. I don't think it stood up first either. This was when I discovered that soap really does not take the smell off at all! I was debating how I was going to call work to explain that I would be late or would have to come reeking of skunk. Luckily for me, I'm a teacher and school closed for the storm! I was then able to, embarrassingly, go to the grocery store and get tomato juice, and yes, it does work.

 

[neverenough]

No, the trap stayed level, but it might have been able to move around enough. I don't know.

We used to butcher 300+ chickens per year. We would have to leg trap skunks becouse they would dig up the chicken burial sites. If the skunk, saw, smelled or what ever they do to sense danger, they would spray. If we could sneek up on them without them knowing we were there, we could shoot them without odor. It was pretty much a crap shoot. I would guess 60% of the time we had odorless kills. BTW we have striped skunks here.