that is the one Lenny doctor trapper. thanks. Lee
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:38:40AM -0400, Lenny McHugh wrote: > I thought I saw a putty cat! > Lee, A long time ago I posted a link to http://www.asktrapperjohn.com > I thought that a product called liquid fence may help. He recommends it. > Here is a copy of the text on that subject: > SKUNKS > > SKUNKS > > Should you ever need to trap a skunk and are using an open cage trap, follow > this procedure to keep from getting sprayed. After you have trapped the > skunk, > you will need to kill it. Most of the states that I am aware of do not allow > the transfer of these animals because of the possibility of transferring > rabies. > If you want to put it down without it spraying, get a large blanket that you > can't see through. Hold the blanket in front of you with your arms out > stretched. > Make sure that the skunk can't see your legs, only you eyes should be > visible above the blanket. Now slowly walk toward the trap, if he starts to > raise > his tail stop walking and stand still until he lowers his tail again. > Continue toward the trap until you are right in front of it, then lower the > blanket > over the trap to completely cover it. At this point, you can pick up the > trap in the blanket and take it any place you want without getting sprayed, > provided > you keep it covered. Don't worry about the bottom of the trap. Set the trap > on a table or the tail gate of your truck, keeping it covered. Now stand at > one end of the trap and slowly pull the blanket off of the trap. When the > end of the trap is just starting to show, start pulling a large plastic leaf > bag over the trap as you remove the blanket, keeping the trap covered with > either the blanket or the bag. Sounds hard but I've done it hundreds of > times. > When you have the trap completely in the bag, seal the end with a twist tie. > Now we are ready to put this animal to sleep. With a yellow pencil poke a > hole in one side of the bag/trap approximately half way up the side of the > trap. Take a can of spray starting fluid (ether) and spray one squirt into > the > hole and seal it with masking tape. After waiting 20 minutes, poke another > hole in the bag and put in 2 squirts of fluid and seal this hole. After > waiting > 30 minutes, poke another hole into the bag and fill the bag with the fluid > and seal the hole. In about an hour, you can remove and bury the animal. > That > is, provided you did everything right, according to these directions. NO > SHORT CUTS! Don't smoke or allow anybody to smoke while doing this. > > By the way, skunks like to till your lawn looking for grubs to eat. When > you see them doing this on your lawn spray the lawn with Liquid Fence's Mole > Vole and Gopher Repellant it soaks into the lawn and the grubs, making them > taste bad so the skunks don't want to eat them anymore. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee A. Stone" <[email protected]> > To: "Blind Handyman" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 1:52 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] skunk attack > > > > > long ago someone posted a link to a doctor somebody who had lots of > hints about critters. I just turned on all the outside flood lights > in hopes our visitor or visitors will find elsewhere to share their > disgusting perfumes. . there must be a repellent maybe a even rotten > sulfur coil that would keep these skunks at bay or do I need to stay up > all night playing the tamborine? any and all advice except installing > claymoor mines will be appreciated. " in near tears I am. Lee > > > > -- > Imagine what we can imagine! > -- Arthur Rubinstein > . > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [email protected] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list > just send a blank message to: > [email protected]! Groups Links > > > > > __________ NOD32 4436 (20090918) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > -- Disc space -- the final frontier! .
