Sitting here by my sliding glass door (door open, screen shut) and a very familiar odor just started coming in...skunk! I slid the door shut just in case its in my yard! (At least the racoons and possums aren't so aromatic...and the coyotes and foxes are no closer than a kilometer!)
Not a pet or a reptile....
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FroggtheCham
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Oh Lynda!!! There is no mistaking that perfume!!!! When we lived more rural, growing up we had coons, possum, and stunks!!!!!
They were cruising around looking for the garbage cans
They were cruising around looking for the garbage cans The raccoons come through my yard nightly but I haven't seen a possum or smelled a skunk this year...until now. Found one very sick possum in my yard a year or so ago...called the human society but they wouldn't send anyone to come and get it...called again when I knew the shift would have changed and they were angry that nobody would come and sent someone right away, but it was too late when they got here. I'm wondering if someone is poisoning them both?
jannb
Chameleon Enthusiast
Some people are just so mean to animals. I hope you don't find any more sick ones.
I don't think too many people think about trying to live with the animals but rather about getting rid of them all. I know that they can become a nuisance sometimes and move into people's houses too...but I still try to live with them...not kill them...and this goes for the pesky mice that keep getting inside my house sometimes too! I trap them in a humane trap and release them in an empty field (with some food, of course).
People complained about the coyotes since they have eaten/attacked some cats and small dogs...but when the coyotes were not here, we were infested with mice and rabbits and they complained about that.
A beaver moved into a tiny creek up the road a kilometer or so and cut down some of the "neighbor's" trees. The concern was that the water would get deeper and the damage to the trees would continue. They could have put a baffle (long pipe, basically) in the creek so that the dam would never hold water and a metal collar around any trees of concern (so that the beaver would have had to go to the nearby bush for its wood) and maybe the kids (and some adults) would have enjoyed the beaver. The beaver was killed because moving it might have put it in another beaver's territory and that might not work either.
People complained about the coyotes since they have eaten/attacked some cats and small dogs...but when the coyotes were not here, we were infested with mice and rabbits and they complained about that.
A beaver moved into a tiny creek up the road a kilometer or so and cut down some of the "neighbor's" trees. The concern was that the water would get deeper and the damage to the trees would continue. They could have put a baffle (long pipe, basically) in the creek so that the dam would never hold water and a metal collar around any trees of concern (so that the beaver would have had to go to the nearby bush for its wood) and maybe the kids (and some adults) would have enjoyed the beaver. The beaver was killed because moving it might have put it in another beaver's territory and that might not work either.
hallenhe
Avid Member
We live in the city and routinely have raccoons and possums in our yard, and I have seen skunks, coyotes, foxes and mink within a mile. I know people consider them nuisances, but I enjoy seeing them, even when they make a mess. We've been piling up stuff on the deck to take away to the dump as we prepare to move, and last week the three young raccoons (I think they're the raccoon equivalent of ten-year-olds) were investigating everything, clambering over it and making high pitched whirring noises to each other.
