Happy Valentines Day!

[hal 9000]

No, that wasn't in my bookmarks. I just did a quick Google to locate it.

As for the shotgun solution, there is a problem with that. Dead skunk smell much worse than a live one. Are you prepared for the removal you will have to do afterwards? :p

[piqaboo]

Originally posted by Serenity:
Piq, that was funny....I may not have been born here had it not been for a coyote.

Oooooh! What a teaser!
Tell all, young lady, please tell all!

[Serenity]

Oh...Gollum is leading Frodo to Shelob's Lair...that reminds me of some of the tall tales my parents use to tell me about coyotes helping them navigate the Rio Grande and desert terrain. Gollum is a coyote...

[Serenity]

Hal, what if I shoot the "T2 of skunks" and the chunks start rolling toward each other to reconstruct themselves....

[piqaboo]

My folks had it easier, Serenity.
When they immigrated, they took a case of french wine on the Queen Mary and used it to bribe stewards to let them eat in the second class dining room and to put 6-month old me in the first class nursery (they had 3rd class tix).

[hal 9000]

Originally posted by Serenity:
Hal, what if I shoot the "T2 of skunks" and the chunks start rolling toward each other to reconstruct themselves....

Then you can be sure... you ate peyote for dinner that night. :p

[Serenity]

Originally posted by piqaboo:
My folks had it easier, Serenity.
When they immigrated, they took a case of french wine on the Queen Mary and used it to bribe stewards to let them eat in the second class dining room and to put 6-month old me in the first class nursery (they had 3rd class tix).

Do you have tall tales reminiscent of the Titanic?

[Serenity]

Have you known anyone who has a peyote story?

Unfortunately, I have only the one Simpsons episode.

[Serenity]

How did that company extract coyote, fox or bobcat urine scent into pellets?

[hal 9000]

LOL- I saw that episode.

If you would like to experience a journey with peyote without actually taking it, I would recommend renting Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

[Serenity]

I wonder if the scent of human urine will ward off these critters? Can I use that company's technology to make pellets from human urine?...and then scatter it across "my territory" to ward off the skunks, coyotes and bobcats? You'd think it would be easier to just "go" in the woods but someone might see me, so I have to play it safe and use the pellet form.

[piqaboo]

Enlist your husband to mark the territory at night. Much easier than doing it yourself, if less fun.

No, Serenity. There are no "Titanic" stories. There are darn few stories of the crossing at all, in fact.
They then, in Jan, picked up a car in NY for delivery to LA. It had a governor on it, which my dad removed. They nearly got ticketed for going too quickly between toll booths on the Jersey Turnpike, this despite the fact that they'd stopped to change my diaper, feed me, and eat lunch between those tollbooths.

Somewhere in the Rockies, my dad fell asleep at the wheel and they went off-roading in the snow.
Oddly enough, the owner was so happy to have his engine ungoverned, that he forgave them the crunched fendor. Go figure. My guess is he realized they were freaking broke (with a6 mo baby no less, and my mom was a stone fox), so he didnt pursue it. What would have been the point!

[Serenity]

What is a stone fox?

[piqaboo]

a good-looking broad (or at least, that's what it meant when I was in Jr High. Its an out-of-vogue term, IME).

aka a bodacious babe

[GreatCarouser]

Originally posted by Serenity:
I wonder if the scent of human urine will ward off these critters? Can I use that company's technology to make pellets from human urine?...and then scatter it across "my territory" to ward off the skunks, coyotes and bobcats? You'd think it would be easier to just "go" in the woods but someone might see me, so I have to play it safe and use the pellet form.

Serenity, often a zoo or a circus wil sell some waste from a large predator that you can 'mark' your territory with...

[Serenity]

Yeah but website sold it in "pellet" form. I wonder how they do that. If I can apply that technology to human urine I could use the stuff like "snow melt" and label it as a repellent to almost any form of wildlife.

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[OperaTenor]

A friend's sister was having problems with raccoons getting into her back yard and tormenting her 20 year-old cat. Her mother had read an article about how it was possible to mark territory and scare off the predators by eating a lot of red meat, then peeing on the point of egress of the predator. My friend and I volunteered our services. Ate some red meat, peed in the back corners of her yard, and the coons never came back.

That was three years ago.

Serve your hubby some medium rare steak and send out to pee someplace the skunks frequent. My money says it'll drive them off.

[piqaboo]

It helps if the red meat was eaten an hour or two before hand.

Try peeing on cat litter, drying it, and scattering that around. Maybe the crystal stuff would be "cool".

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

The carnivore-marking trick is reputed to work on deer, too. It works best if the carnivore in question is either pregnant or makes lots of his own testosterone; the testosterone-producers manage to do the "aim" part of the marking routine best.

The best luck I ever had with this technique was when I let my son have a barbeque for his friends in the back yard. They ate mightily, drank beer, and peed me a critter-barrier.

[hal 9000]

:p

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