Skunks
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I thought the point of the white stripe on their head was indicating the pellet impact point. Hmmm.
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Well they sure don't seem to be doing a good job against the mice and hornets around my place....
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Just a funny but true story about the pungent odor of these charming little creatures.
Back when I was a truck driver, I accidentally hit a skunk in the middle of the night. My front tire hit him and threw him back under the trailer and he got thrown onto the spare tire rack. I guess it was about 2 AM and it was time to get a little coffee so I quickly pulled into a truck stop, the parking lot was full, must have been well over a hundred trucks on the lot and I ran into the rest room to answer a call of nature and picked a cup of coffee up on the way back out to the truck. I opened the door to go back out to the truck and there were only about 20 trucks left in the parking lot. Everyone was gettin da heck out of Dodge. I immediately noticed this strange "other worldly" smell and it got stronger and stronger as I got closer and closer to the truck and then I saw him hanging on the spare tire rack. What do I do … a moral dilemma … do I knock him off with a stick and leave him laying in the parking lot, do I put him in a trash can and leave him stinking up the whole area. The fight or flight instinct took over and I cranked up the truck as fast as I could and put that baby in the wind running 65 mph down the interstate. Eventually my little freeloading passenger got blown off but his memory stayed on the truck for days afterwards.
Back when I was a truck driver, I accidentally hit a skunk in the middle of the night. My front tire hit him and threw him back under the trailer and he got thrown onto the spare tire rack. I guess it was about 2 AM and it was time to get a little coffee so I quickly pulled into a truck stop, the parking lot was full, must have been well over a hundred trucks on the lot and I ran into the rest room to answer a call of nature and picked a cup of coffee up on the way back out to the truck. I opened the door to go back out to the truck and there were only about 20 trucks left in the parking lot. Everyone was gettin da heck out of Dodge. I immediately noticed this strange "other worldly" smell and it got stronger and stronger as I got closer and closer to the truck and then I saw him hanging on the spare tire rack. What do I do … a moral dilemma … do I knock him off with a stick and leave him laying in the parking lot, do I put him in a trash can and leave him stinking up the whole area. The fight or flight instinct took over and I cranked up the truck as fast as I could and put that baby in the wind running 65 mph down the interstate. Eventually my little freeloading passenger got blown off but his memory stayed on the truck for days afterwards.
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That is great information!! Thanks for sharing that!
I killed an opossum because I thought they were varmints.. Then I read what all they ate and did. ( natures garbage men).
Happy INDEPENDENCE Day everyone!!
I killed an opossum because I thought they were varmints.. Then I read what all they ate and did. ( natures garbage men).
Happy INDEPENDENCE Day everyone!!
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Yea and they love to eat eggs lots of them , got one the other night
and I'm still trying to get the stink off my boots , I'm going to leave
them alone from now on .
and I'm still trying to get the stink off my boots , I'm going to leave
them alone from now on .
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I didn't know that. I never bother them because I was already afraid of them letting go after I shot em and having that stink get on me or by the house for days but that's a better reason
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I had one that used to come around, he/she got used to seeing me and we became friends...Eventually it would walk with in inches of me, never got sprayed.They remind me so much of my ferrets I had when I was younger..Real characters
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Yes they eat Game Bird eggs and can carry rabies. Die skunk die! ?
If you want to have some fun give a skunk a frozen chicken egg. The performance following the event is worthy of a YouTube video and would likely get many thousands of hits or even go viral.
If you want to have some fun give a skunk a frozen chicken egg. The performance following the event is worthy of a YouTube video and would likely get many thousands of hits or even go viral.
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