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[AriLovesChickens]

So, maybe a little clueless of me...but why shoot the skunks? I used to have one as a pet (descented of course). Seems like they just want to be left alone to eat bugs.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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They are cute and they eat bugs, but they also carry many diseases, bugs, etc. I did a lot of research on them before DH first killed a bunch last year. Skunks (wild) are not something good to have around. Maybe nice as a pet...but not wild.

 

[blueducklings]

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My rasberries are SOUR as heck this year. Wonder why...any clues anybody? CL?

No sun?

Nope, I think it went south to Arizona.

 

[blueducklings]

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My guess would be that they don't (yet) have enough natural sugar.

Yes, that was my guess too.

after my first mouthful.

 

[cheryl98117]

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LOL

I had a run-in with a civet cat while staying at my grandma's house

no one would speak to me for a week

tomato juice may help; enzyme cleaner may be a better bet

soap and water won't work, Dawn dish detergent MIGHT

And nobody believed me months ago! But I bet thats cause I thaught it was called a civic cat. lol Those things are kinda cool looking but BOY do they ever stink!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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LOL

I had a run-in with a civet cat while staying at my grandma's house

no one would speak to me for a week

tomato juice may help; enzyme cleaner may be a better bet

soap and water won't work, Dawn dish detergent MIGHT

Does your grandma live in Africa or Asia?

 

[Kaneke]

no, she lived in Florence Oregon, but there were people there who had imported them as pets, then released them into the wild (or they had escaped)

I checked Wikipedia which says that the spotted skunk is sometimes incorrectly called a civet, but the critter I surprised under her house, looked like a cat, smelled (and stung my eyes) with odoriferous musk that didn't smell quite like a skunk

see this and the related links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet_cat

 

[jbear]

has anyone been to the Saturday sale at Yardbirds lately?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They are cute and they eat bugs, but they also carry many diseases, bugs, etc. I did a lot of research on them before DH first killed a bunch last year. Skunks (wild) are not something good to have around. Maybe nice as a pet...but not wild.

I'd seriously rather have skunks than what's replaced them in my environment, the introduced East Coast Opossum, which out-reproduce skunks by about five times and are just the creepiest animals ever, period. (There weren't any on this side of the Columbia until the 1990s, and were intentionally introduced in Oregon during the late 1930s. They're not as big a nuisance as the razorbacks that were introduced in Arlington at about the same time, but they have damaged the propulation of ground nesting birds and out competed skunks to the result of damaging the already unbalanced Puget Sound natural environment). (East Coast Grey Squirrels are worse).

Skunks are drawn to chicken operations, and can prey on adults although are more likely to take eggs and chicks. They used to be a real problem around chicken farms up Yelm: I can remember going to visit a neighbor at night and having dozeens of them scatter from in front of the car when Dad turned on the headlights to go home. I wouldn't shoot them, but apparently they're doing a whole lot better on the dry side than they are around here.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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LOL

I had a run-in with a civet cat while staying at my grandma's house

no one would speak to me for a week

tomato juice may help; enzyme cleaner may be a better bet

soap and water won't work, Dawn dish detergent MIGHT

Does your grandma live in Africa or Asia?

Civit Cat= spotted skunk in most American idioms, and not the true civets of the old world.