Skunks

Anyone notice an increase in skunks this year. We are being over run with them this year. Saw five dead on main st. All within two blocks.

Didn't think you would notice since i wasn't aware anyone had seen us DROPPING them. Have you caught the 3 COLORED one yet? LOL

they are everywhere my dogs have gotten sprayed twice in the last 2 weeks and they killed the last one my yard my house and the sheds and barn all reek of skunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It must be mating season.

Unless you can prove it with a paternity test, my tomcat didn't do it. If they are his, I'll.... I'll have Lyle come over and bury them... seems cars are 'the skunks only natural predator'

People are leaving cat food out.

no trappers any more

Yeah, they're thick around here this year. Had them in the sweet corn and then in the hen house. I hate them much more than coons because a coon will take a bird and run away, but a skunk will kill 6, take one nibble out if each one and then run away. I've seen a lot of dead ones on the road lately also.

What's the difference between a skunk and a civit cat?

I'm serious. This is an honest question. Someone once said you could put a trap in the middle of a 40 acre field, and there would be a civit cat in it in the morning.

We got enough problems with black and white ones. Don't need no colored skunks. Your gonna confuse the drunks in this town.

Your Tom will be talking to my lawyer. Think they can just show up and have a good time with all our skunks. Then leave.

A civit cat it spotted rather than striped and is smaller than a skunk. Actually it is somewhat protected in Minn but I would not bet on that counting for much.

Well ya,,,There geering up for another election ya know.

I looked it up and found out some people call a skunk a civit cat. But they are not the same. As pete has posted

There's a stretch of road near the farm called "skunk alley" by the locals; maybe a quarter mile long but usually theres a half-dozen or so at at any given time splatted.

what we called a civet can was actually a spotted skunk,they are protected here now,and i THOUGHT everywhere but maybe not.I caught and killed i dont know how many as a kid, but i havent seen one in a while.they pretty much were totally nocturnal,were smaller than a striped skunk,and almost acted like a cat more than like a rat like a skunk will.when you got some hitting your chicken house it was almost impossible to keep them out untill you killed every one.they werent as bad to spray as a striped skunk but when they did they made a regular skunk smell like chanel no5.i dont know why ,but we were overrun with them at the farm one summer,i bet i trapped or shot 25-30 at least.mom wouldnt let me ride in the front of the pickup,and i sat by the window at school and on the back row of church that entire summer!LOL! good thing we slept out most of the summer anyway because mom wouldnt let me in the house.she made me wash in the horse tank,and eat on the porch.I went by the old home place a couple of years ago,i swear you could get the wind just right down wind of that old chicken pen and still smell it..the reason why skunks are moving so much now is that they are looking for a place to hole up for the winter.

civit cats are much harder to trap than a regular skunk.a plain old striped skunk will step in a leghold trap laying out in the middle of a concrete parking lot,but you better have a good set to catch a civet cat.I dont think a striped skunk sees too well,thats why you see them and they will walk right past you if you stand still and never even notice you. a civit cat wont,its almost completly nocturnal,and hunts like a cat.they will climb trees and things to get birds and eggs,where a regular skunk usually wont,and where a regular skunk will kill 3 or 4 chickens in a pen,a civet cat(spotted skunk) will kill them all ,doesnt matter if there are 30 in the pen.think of a cross between a weasel and a striped skunk with 10 times as potent spray and you got a civet cat or spotted skunk.the last ones i saw around here must have been around the mid eighties, they seem to go in cycles for some reason.could have something to do with the number of owls and things around is all i can figure.since they are maybe half the size of a regular skunk owls probably get quite a few of them.most folks when i was a kid would leave their barn loft doors open for the owls to roost in their barns which helped keep skunk,civet cat, and rats numbers down.of course they would get a chicken or duck everynow and then also,but that was considered a small price to pay for the good they did.

money makers!scent is still used as a fixative for perfume and the last time i checked was selling for $13 an ounce.just think of all those twenty dollar bills laying around!,LOL.