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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
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Mothballs worked for me.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jan 27, 2016 - 03:36pm PT
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Those dang Kashinagins just won't go away!
ENOUGH! JUST GO AWAY!
I like the idea of using incense. It was invented to ward off insects and repel vermin.
Even an old idea can be relevant today.
In high school, my faux-clever friends would light that stuff up to announce, "We're smoking dope in the bedroom!"
When the US Army blasted rock music to flush Manuel Noriega from his hiding place in the Panama City Apostolic Nunciature it was so obnoxious, the Pope appealed to President Bush to turn off the noise.
My gopher-eradicator might work for you, if the space is enclosed enough. Take a lawn mower, or similar small gas engine, and duct the exhaust under the deck. Carbon monoxide is an insidious poison that sneaks up on its victims, and painlessly puts them to permanent sleep. Texas DOC: are you listening?
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jan 27, 2016 - 06:14pm PT
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that's why God gave you teeth
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Jan 27, 2016 - 08:35pm PT
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The Malheur militia is looking for a new place to occupy. Put the word out you have federal skunks.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 27, 2016 - 09:01pm PT
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We had wood stoves and added a T joint at the base of the chimney beyond the clean out ,
and mettle dryer tubing to direct a small amount of smoke, into the dirt floor under a cottage,
and ran a radio off an extension cord that we could unplug .
But I found this
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Skunks
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 27, 2016 - 09:12pm PT
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A good full can of UDAP Bear mace into the den will usually work. Careful of blowback though and make sure your house is sealed from the outside 100%.
Non-rabid skunks are very smart and will leave given enough motivation. Mace provides that motivation if you don't want to or can't shoot them.
We were inundated with those striped bastards a few years ago. It was absolutely insane. Three different groups. They kicked out my favorite foxes and evicted a HUGE groundhog from it's den. Nothing touches them except 22LR.... The local pest guys can't legally remove them from the properties here so they DROWN them onsite once trapped. That's pretty damn cruel IMO. .22 to the head is much quicker(note that they still spray.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
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Taking all this is in, thanks everybody.
I installed the water heater today and plan on skunk diving by Saturday
22 in hand if need be.
So keep em coming, your ideas, most not so bad.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 09:34pm PT
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In the meantime, I've had traps, mothballs, pans full of ammonia,
lighting, and rock music blasting under my backyard deck for three nights now...i'm going to start taking up deck boards and if he's under there my 22 is locked and loaded...
Dead skunk = stinky Bushman!
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Jan 27, 2016 - 11:25pm PT
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Skunks like bacon. We used to load box traps with bacon and catch them. Animal control would take and release them elsewhere....but they'll spray....
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 27, 2016 - 11:35pm PT
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poor little skunk...so cute, so stinky, so not wanted at your home....My vote..a have a heart trap..
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 28, 2016 - 03:28am PT
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I used to have 3 pet skunks. Their mother was hit by a car, and I raised the three babies. Used an eye dropper to give them formula.
They never did get totally tame. I got sprayed a lot. If you moved suddenly - BAM!
They're actually very clean animals, more like cats than dogs.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2016 - 04:14am PT
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“Skunked So Far”
Skunk’s under the house
Partyin’ with Mouse
Can’t make him move
When he’s in the groove
If you wanna know
What’ll make him go
Toss in a duck
It might bring you luck
If that’s not enough
Well that’s just tough
And I have no clue
What else you could do
Cuz he's just a drunk
Yes, a very drunk skunk.
MFM
http://atlatl-darts.com/coonskinhat.htm
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jan 28, 2016 - 08:31am PT
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One year, I slow-cooked a Thanksgiving turkey so completely, all the meat just fell right off the bones. So, I broke the bare carcass into a half-dozen pieces, and put them in the backyard. From the upper deck, I watched a cute family of skunks (mama, and a few babies) come and go, taking one piece at a time, until all the turkey bones were gone. I never got sprayed, and I never smelled them.
Wait.
Now, I remember.
They were RACOONS, not skunks. And they repaid my kindness by never getting into my trash cans, just the neighbors'.
Skunks?
Mace or gas those smelly M-Fs.
Promise them bacon, and then pay them with lead.
Wrap a fox terrier with Saran Wrap, and turn him loose.
Blast a super-bright LED flashlight, on blink-mode, day and night, at them.
Shock and awe them with a handful of flash-bang grenades.
Screw a hose to your new water heater, and spray them, for a change.
Get that deer-repellent spray that smells like mountain lions (or is that worse than a skunk?).
Wave a Roman cross and chant, "The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you."
Get those waddling toxic waste receptacles out of there, right now.
In my neighborhood, I wouldn't be able to use the .22LR method, and stay out of jail.
I'd have to get a box of subsonics, and make a Maxim multi-disk device.
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overwatch
climber
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Jan 28, 2016 - 08:34am PT
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Thread title cracks me up.
Turtleman...live action! I love that guy
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2016 - 08:44am PT
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Wave a Roman cross and chant, "The power of Christ compels you." Thanks Tom, that one really cracked me up!
Bacon raw or cooked?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 28, 2016 - 02:34pm PT
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Nita, what did the neighbors play?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 28, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
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hey there say, jaybro...
:)
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 28, 2016 - 02:44pm PT
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Jaybro..Lol...............Metallica, Kiss & AC/DC......
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