Skunked

Just to update anyone keeping score. To date, I've trapped nine skunks and killed one for a total of 10, since December 27th.

I had enough of not being able to fill the hole they keep going down (cuz they dig it out each time, even when I mix water in with crushed limestone, which should freeze like concrete in the winter.

So after number 10 was carted off, I decided to collapse the tunnel they've been using to go from the hole opening to get under my porch, a tunnel of about four feet in length. I got a giant steel pike and started chipping at the 3" thick ice. Once I got through that I had to chip and pound through the frozen rock hard soil. Once I got through that, it got easier and I would use the pike to leverage large pieces of frozen soil up.

The area they had under the soil wasn't so much a tunnel as it was an area of about three feet in diameter and about 5-6" of crawl space before it fed under my porch. I totally collapsed that area and threw gasoline soaked rags under the porch and pounded and compacted the debris into and on top of the entry hole and I'm approaching a week with no activity. Phew! I'm not sure I'm out of the woods yet, but it's looking good so far.

[C.J.]

Silly John. Ve have vays of getting under your porch (that was my best German accent)

P.S. We hate potatoes

Originally Posted by C.J.

Silly John. Ve have vays of getting under your porch (that was my best German accent)

P.S. We hate potatoes

Pepe Lepew is French, ya tosser, but good effort. If I had a nickle for every Pepe comment from colleagues and neighbors, well, I'd have a platinum DD by now.

I sink zat ze skunks may 'ave alrrrready gone away.

[C.J.]

I know he's French. But, don't you remember Hogans Hero's the Gestapo guy would always say the "we have ways of making you talk" thing..............................ah, forget it

Originally Posted by C.J.

I know he's French. But, don't you remember Hogans Hero's the Gestapo guy would always say the "we have ways of making you talk" thing..............................ah, forget it

Of course. Major Hoffestetter. 'Klink, vat kind of prison are you runnink here?... Hogan, if you do not co-operate vis ze SS, you vill haf tirty days in ze cooler.'

[Launch Mini]

Hope there are no Rolex fans in PETA reading this
Your beginning to sound a bit like Bill Murray In Caddyshack.
BTW, I am an active member of PETA ( People who Eat Tasty Animals)

[Launch Mini]

If the city calls about a dead skunk , repeat this phrase
" I Know nothink"

[dman]

This thread is

[Gedanken]

Say John, you wouldn't be building secret experimental aircraft in your basement, would you?

[JJ Irani]

Gosh, you guys are truly on a roll....one crazy thread after another!! And what's happened to all the watch talk we are supposed to be here for?

[C.J.]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Gosh, you guys are truly on a roll....one crazy thread after another!! And what's happened to all the watch talk we are supposed to be here for?

I'm sorry, but weren't you busy typing up a new list
Yavol, Heir JJdant

[padi56]

You could always try this tasty dish below seems a pity to waste
fresh young meat.




ROAST SKUNK

1 skunk, scent bag removed
2 sliced carrots
1 c. clear soup
1 tsp. onion juice

Dissolve 1 bouillon cube in 1 cup hot water. Skin, clean, and remove scent bag from skunk. Parboil in salted water 15 minutes. Drain off water. Then place meat in fresh water and steam until tender, about 1 hour. Transfer to roasting pan and put in oven at 375 degrees. Add 1 cup of clear soup, 2 sliced carrots and 1 teaspoon of onion juice and cook uncovered for 2 hours.

Originally Posted by padi56

You could always try this tasty dish below seems a pity to waste
fresh young meat.




ROAST SKUNK

1 skunk, scent bag removed
2 sliced carrots
1 c. clear soup
1 tsp. onion juice

Dissolve 1 bouillon cube in 1 cup hot water. Skin, clean, and remove scent bag from skunk. Parboil in salted water 15 minutes. Drain off water. Then place meat in fresh water and steam until tender, about 1 hour. Transfer to roasting pan and put in oven at 375 degrees. Add 1 cup of clear soup, 2 sliced carrots and 1 teaspoon of onion juice and cook uncovered for 2 hours.

Don't laugh... my crazy Italian father in law tried a few times to get to the full traps before my trapper cuz he wanted to eat the damn things. Seriously!

[Launch Mini]

Another option might be for you to get some chickens, Than as a "farmer"you are permitted to protect your livestock..
Just a thought

Originally Posted by Launch Mini

Another option might be for you to get some chickens, Than as a "farmer"you are permitted to protect your livestock..
Just a thought

Never thought of that... but keeping livestock within city limits is against the bylaws here.

[Uncle-AJ]

Originally Posted by Atomic

Never thought of that... but keeping livestock within city limits is against the bylaws here.

.....................then tell the authorities you are keeping skunks. They are sure to get rid of them for you.

[dman]

I missed the killing dude, was there blood and guts involved?

Originally Posted by dman

I missed the killing dude, was there blood and guts involved?

Only on the inside of the animal. When Bromone is injested, as I said, it makes them thirsty. When water is mixed in the digestive tract of the animal, it causes the Bromone to react and all the internal organs start to hemmorage. Basically the varmint will die a slow and terribly painful death as it bleeds internally to death.

Boo frickin' hoo.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Atomic

Only on the inside of the animal. When Bromone is injested, as I said, it makes them thirsty. When water is mixed in the digestive tract of the animal, it causes the Bromone to react and all the internal organs start to hemmorage. Basically the varmint will die a slow and terribly painful death as it bleeds internally to death.

Boo frickin' hoo.

WHOA! I never knew about this sadistic side of you, Johnny!

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

WHOA! I never knew about this sadistic side of you, Johnny!

JJ, when your home is invaded by this stink, it's drastic and calls for drastic measures. I'm a big-time animal lover, some could go so far as to call me a tree-hugger (yes, I wear Birkinstocks, but NEVER with socks ).

So for me to want to harm an animal, it has to be bad. And it was brutally bad. Funny thing is I'd never seen a live skunk in my life before this started (seens lots as roadkill). Now I've seen more than I want to see for the rest of my life.

If I had a .22 or access to one, I would have sat on my porch all night waiting to 'potato' them. It's my property and if the city or province won't do anything to help me, I should be able to resolve the problem in whatever way I see fit.

Call me Carl.... Carl Spackler.

[dman]

Originally Posted by Atomic

Call me Carl.... Carl Spackler.

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Atomic

Call me Carl.... Carl Spackler.

It's in the hole

[Launch Mini]

That's it AJ, Tell them your raising Skunks
The fine for that is surely cheaper than the exterminator.

Nope, they won't pay. Removal is at my cost. Believe me, I've tried to slice this 100 different ways with the help of the local paper, the CBC and even the trapper association. No deal. My dime.