07-03-2020, 06:33 AM | #26 |
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true story of about a month ago, I saw a skunk walking in circles on black top road, with a small white cup stuck over its nose and eyes. I tried to get a picture but with traffic it did not work. I drove by again awhile later and skunk was dead on side of road. Maybe that's it, puts some jelly in the bottom of a white cup and watch the skunk do hot laps for awhile.,
for about 10 winters I worked in a Fur House. never handled skunks though. must have been the smell.
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07-03-2020, 07:06 AM | #27 |
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I got the clear picture on this. Six skunks with jars stuck on their heads walking in circles in my yard
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I was talking to my neighbor, with the poorly managed garbage who loves behind my place, and he let me know just before dark they saw the skunk family. Where he saw them first was near his garbage and he said they went up along the fence and crossed under near my building, where I saw them. He doesn't put it together that they live at my place because they eat at his place and how do you tell your neighbor their trash is causing you problems anyway? He and his family are living with his mother in law and she is the one who wouldn't take kindly to the slightest hint at her garbage being a nuisance.
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07-06-2020, 11:02 AM | #31 |
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I guess you can be glad it's just skunks and not bears
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07-06-2020, 11:35 AM | #32 |
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I can imagine they probably have a rat problem too.
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07-06-2020, 12:24 PM | #33 |
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Yep. I set spring traps for them where the trash is on the other side of the fence. The fence is a solid plank privacy fence. Their trash is on the other side and I closed in under the upstairs porch of my barn.
At this point the local bears seem to have enough habitat that they don't get sighted near people's homes. Good thing, too, because they like trash as much as any other varmint.
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Then there's,
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My brother in law who was years older than me / I was 11 years old at the time and he was like 22 ..he cut the aroma bag out of a skunk and told me he would give me a 50 cent piece if I would take it and throw it at a tree ,,and smash the skunk sac ,, I took him up on in in a heart beat (think this around 1955,and 50 cents was big money)
I went up to that tree and stood about 5-6 from it and let it go.. I turned and started back and it hit me ,, I lost my breakfast and lunch and maybe supper .. and still did not get the 50 cents as he said he told me I did it wrong,, or somthing like that..
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A little off topic but kind of the same.
I rented an apartment with a pool. a gym and one of those steam rooms. It was nice So I would work out and sit in the steam room. And sweat it out. Once I made the mistake of going with my crazy roommate. And he was drunk as a skunk and he pissed on the steaming rocks in this steam room. It smelled so bad. I ran so fast out of there. I still gag thinking about it. Lesson learned. Don't work out with drunks.
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Life-threatening experiences from our youth. We used to explore some caves in the hills close to our house. Now, being po', we didn't have flashlights or batteries to power them, for that matter. So, when a parent wasn't looking, we'd pinch a highway flare to light the place up. Lucky I ain't dead from that. One time, we were leaving one of the caves (which we had to crawl into and out of, as the opening was small). I urinated on the flare to put it out, which of course didn't work, but what did I know at age 10 or so? The stench was unbelievable.
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Since this thread is headed off the rails anyway, many years ago I was riding around the woods & back roads with a friend. Beer was being enjoyed, of course. We stopped to get rid of some beer. His Ford had exhaust pipes exiting just ahead of the back tires. For some reason, he directed his stream onto the hot exhaust pipe. Luckily, the stench went right up in his face instead of towards me. Pretty sure he never did that again.
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Some of you that may have spent time in Southern California might remember this.
The duck farm that was right next to the 605 freeway. You couldn't miss it. Or at least you couldn't miss the smell. That place smelled like a bad fart in the car. On a hot day if you were going 60 mph you would speed up to 90 mph, hold your breath and drive really fast to pass it. There was another stretch of road that I drove to go to work. There were always dead skunks on the road in that spot. It was another case of put the pedal to the metal and hold your breath.
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What, no skunk crossing signs? I thought you lived in California
It's funny I can drive down the road and smell a skunk or other nasty thing and go "Yuk!", but when they are poisoning the weeds I smell that and think the air smells fresher than fresh. I think skunk sting is the better one to be breathing. I always hold my breath when I smell that poison
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we are getting lots of rats where people have compost piles and they don,t maintain it. Of course the city back a couple years were promoting have compost to lessen the waste at the garbage dump.People think they can put food waste etc. in a pile and have fresh dirt in a month or two and it doesn,t so they just leave it
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Of course, it does smell much different if you're the one who gets sprayed directly! That happened once. A skunk was caught in a live trap, and I wasn't paying attention. He got my forehead, but missed my eyes. I spent an hour in the shower, and after that, the smell wasn't objectionable by anyone else. I still smelled it each time I showered for the next week. I think the oils had soaked into my skin, and volatilized each time I showered.
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It does leave a lasting impression...
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Skunks concern me more than bears. That said, your Montana bears can be big & scary. We just have the cute friendly little black bears that run away from you. Usually.
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we found this cute little cub looking for a fishing hole in kodiak.. I followed him all the way until he came up the bank on our side and I dove into the car LoL
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You derailed it for a moment. I have been sprayed right in the face. Talk about pain! Goodness Sakes. Because it chased me I had to have two days of rabies shots. Thank goodness I killed it and just had to have the shot until the test results came back negative.
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Maybe both....
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I see holes torn in some trash bags from the skunks. The problem is so obvious. I wish they did see a bear. Maybe then they'd figure out that garbage kept outside in a plastic bag is putting out a buffet for a half dozen or more critters. Hopefully someone will get sprayed. The best thing that could happen is she could call the county on me for maintaining a nuisance by doing nothing about the skunks. I so invite that!!
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