Comments on: Backyard Wildlife

By: moos

moos — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:02:48 +0000

ahhh – Eric has a good idea, Dogette’s gun is the best one though. You do NOT want to catch a skunk in a live trap. I managed that once when trapping racoons. Very bad experience.

Is it still around?

By: Carmen

Carmen — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:21:44 +0000

I have a friend up in Gainesville who keeps getting skunks in his yard – in case you do get sprayed, mix up baking soda, laundry detergent, and hydrogen peroxide – you’ll never know it was even near you…..

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By: Ricklude

Ricklude — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:35:10 +0000

Hey,

Do yourself a flavor… get a pro. And do it quick before the thing starts a family.

Rick

By: Yabu

Yabu — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:05:47 +0000

Just remember…it’s a fucking skunk…not a farookin’ SKUNK. I live down south and know about these things…

By: Janey

Janey — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:47:35 +0000

Enjoyed your comments. Have a little skunk problem of my own. The babies are adorable, but fiesty. If you come near them they spit at you in the manner of kittens. We tend to leave them alone and hope they’ll go home wagging their tails behind them. I do find them quite cat-like, however. Enjoy the experience…something to tell the kids and grandkids about.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:29:06 +0000

Call the nearest Critter Catcher. In phone book.

By: Libby

Libby — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:34:54 +0000

Skunks aren’t that bad. We had a regular visitor on the farm, used to hunker down with the outdoor cats in the breezeway to the barn where we fed them. He sprayed them once and then they decided to coexist. He never bothered us and only showed up at night. Of course he was really old and pure silver. By the end of the winter he was fat from cat food he could barely could get through the cat door and waddle away.

Had one under the front porch in Noho one summer too. It used to be a little freaky coming home drunk from the bars and seeing him sitting on the step but he never bothered us and we didn’t bother him. The only trouble is they rip up your trash if you don’t have secure cans but racoons will do that too.

But if it freaks you out, whoever said fish and wildlife will come get em if you think they’re rabid is right. I don’t think they charge. The exterminor is expensive.

By: Chablis

Chablis — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:30:23 +0000

The Fish and Game Department in this case is your friend. If you want to guarantee someone will come running to take care of it, tell them it’s acting strangely…wobbling and drooling…and you think it’s rabid. That’ll light a fire under their butts

By: chucksdaman

chucksdaman — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:10:35 +0000

Had a family of em’ under my neighbors garage (out west here in morris county). Called animal control to see if they’d come get’em. Instead they asked me if there was an adult male in the household…….yeeeeeeeees i answered thinking to myself WTF?!?! The women proceeds to tell me I should urinate in the locations where the skunks are coming into the yard. The skunks will think there is a predator around and beat feet(or paws). So i pissed along the fence and viola