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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2016 - 07:00pm PT
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Oh, yeah! Put another skunk on the barbie and let's party down!
Nah nah nah nah!!!!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
How 'bout some Mashed Potatoes with that?
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Jan 28, 2016 - 08:49pm PT
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bleach.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2016 - 07:29am PT
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I'm surprised that nobody has suggested a drone or one of those RC ATV thingies like the
Army uses to check out booby-trapped houses in Iraq.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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Miniature mechanical IED Mole-bot...
(Tiny RC tank with cam, excavator arm, and explosive charge)
I'm on it.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 29, 2016 - 08:36am PT
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Spent some quality time last night stalking our latest stinky striped scourge. After an hour in the dark waiting outside it's rocky den with no sightings I opted to dump a $50 canister of bear spray into there.
Seemed to upset it a great deal.
Hopefully it will vacate for good because door #2 is much less pleasant.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jan 29, 2016 - 09:04am PT
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Are you still enabling that skunk?
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2016 - 09:29am PT
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Skunk deterrents in place, I've been too busy with work and other priorities to really get after it...
Smell has dissipated markedly but tomorrow with the day off, the hunt is on to see if mr/mrs Skunk is still under there and if so, eviction procedures could be severe, and in earnest.
Will post further developments.
-bushman out
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Jan 29, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
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Bushman,
Raw bacon wrapped around peanut butter, according to my Mom. We at the base of the Santa Monica mountains so being part of the City of Los Angeles animal control provided the traps (trap door basic cages) and when the skunks were caught (you'd know, they sprayed), they'd come and get them. They eventually either all got moved or got smart and went elsewhere.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jan 29, 2016 - 02:13pm PT
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If I can't shoot it, then a 160 coni-box with wet cat food in the back is how I roll. Boom
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boognish
Trad climber
SLC
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Jan 29, 2016 - 09:47pm PT
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Not rock music at night. You need BASE. Heavy thumping base music. And not at night when they are out prowling, but all day long while they are home trying to sleep. I had one in the chimney and would leave the speakers on 11 all day when I was out at work.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jan 30, 2016 - 08:59am PT
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Here is today's offering. I just saved 15 ducklings. Trapping season is upon us.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 30, 2016 - 09:25am PT
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Bongnish, You are probably right about the base music...I really didn't ask my friend what kind of music she played, i just knew it was loud non stop music aimed under the house/porch...
Thanks for clarifying.....
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jan 30, 2016 - 11:37am PT
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Try using some Slayer - very anti-Skunketic
I'd advise earplugs - the lyrics can be horrible
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2016 - 04:21pm PT
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Without going into great detail, Mr/Mrs Skunk was trapped and relocated today. My wife is happy and the dogs are free to roam skunk free until the next skunk comes along. Maybe I'll let them deal with it next time. They were skunked a few years ago and they survived, and the critter never moved under the deck that time. I must be getting too soft on those dogs, the doting grandpa syndrome I guess.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Jan 31, 2016 - 04:25pm PT
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But bushman , don't tease us with sparse details, we need dirt, and smell👍😜
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2016 - 04:32pm PT
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Perhaps in a few days, after I've calmed from the PMSRD
(Post Maniacal Skunk Removal Disorder).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Surfing around the net today, seeking info on Evelyn "Otheto" Stoddard Weston, an artist and photographer of the Mother Lode, I ran across this tidbit on another photographer, Brett Weston, one of Edward Weston's four sons. Brett was married and divorced four times. I've found two of his wives and am wondering if he may have been married to Otheto.
So far, I've been "skunked" in my search for the other two wives.
The reason I am searching is that I've never heard of her or her work till today, when I lucked into a copy of her Mother Lode Album, second printing, 1948.
http://www.fotogpedia.com/brett-weston.htm
At any rate, here is the tidbit from the above link.
The Rumor Mill
The rumor mill has churned up a few almost biographical details similar to facts, but not really regarding Brett Weston. And the almost fact is that Brett Weston once, under the haze of over the counter sleeping medications, shaved the stripe off a skunk without any payback whatsoever.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Next time, just buy it a one way ticket to Laguna Beach. They are all over the place there; gangs of skunks roaming the streets at night ...They particularly like the old OJ Simpsons place near Victoria Beach.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Escopeta, curious how you set up your trap there. Does it just sit on the ground? What role does the box play? Is the trap set somehow in front of the box? Thanks.
Is that your set-up? Or is that an internet image?
I used to have one of those kind of traps, about 40 years ago.
As part of a different lifestyle as a youth.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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HFCS,
Apologies as I'm just now seeing your questions.
That is my image, not an internet image. And I catch a LOT of skunks (although often in different methods than the one posted)
That setup you see there is not much more than a box, sized to fit the overall opening of the trap which, frankly, operates much like a big rat trap. When the skunk enters the box for the bait the trap closes with immediacy and incredible force.
One end of the box (the one you can't see in the photo) is covered with hardware cloth (aka wire mesh) forcing the critter to enter via the side guarded with the trap.
Its quite simple and very effective. However, I would be remiss if I didn't at least point out that these traps are dangerous. They are not to be trifled with and can easily hurt or injure their owner, their owner's pets and so forth. It is a very common method for raccoon trapping in the Midwest but ethical trappers only practice this in the most remote of areas, and they often take additional precautions to ensure the trap is focused on raccoons.
While I might consider the dispatch of a free roaming cat on my private property to be a +1 for the environment, I'm well aware that others don't share that view so I mention the need for clear discretion when employing these methods. I am not alone in considering it bad form to employ these tactics outside of private property or in high traffic areas.
Thanks you for asking because I had meant to come back to add that disclaimer anyway and it slipped my mind.
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