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Well, mom and dad's acre of lawn is getting torn up something awful...and I'm about to put an end to it!
Probably a month ago they had a strong skunk smell and then had 2 coons fighting in the apple tree outside their window. Whichever, probably both critters, are grubbing the lawn on a nightly basis and have covered the whole thing. We ain't got no grubs left, but there's still visitors.
I'm 95% certain after talking to our resident nuisance trapper that it's a skunk. The ole man is hell bent on it being coons. I told him that I'd get the traps and if it's coons, I'd take care of 'em, but if it was skunks, it'd be all on him. I have a good feeling that he's about to have some stinky business in the morning, considering that after his remarks at dinner tonight, I ran up to Adam's and borrowed his skunk-sized live trap and a dog-proof coon trap. Both are baited...
I took advantage of having nothing better to do and the bug free night under the clear skies and full moon to sit on the porch with the 870 for an hour and a half tonight. I could hear coons kady korner from where we are in a swampy stand of trees...so maybe the old man will be right...but when I get woken up tomorrow with "hey, I need some help with this skunk", I may get the last laugh!
Nothing like urban warfare during the off season to temper a desire for blood!
Probably a month ago they had a strong skunk smell and then had 2 coons fighting in the apple tree outside their window. Whichever, probably both critters, are grubbing the lawn on a nightly basis and have covered the whole thing. We ain't got no grubs left, but there's still visitors.
I'm 95% certain after talking to our resident nuisance trapper that it's a skunk. The ole man is hell bent on it being coons. I told him that I'd get the traps and if it's coons, I'd take care of 'em, but if it was skunks, it'd be all on him. I have a good feeling that he's about to have some stinky business in the morning, considering that after his remarks at dinner tonight, I ran up to Adam's and borrowed his skunk-sized live trap and a dog-proof coon trap. Both are baited...
I took advantage of having nothing better to do and the bug free night under the clear skies and full moon to sit on the porch with the 870 for an hour and a half tonight. I could hear coons kady korner from where we are in a swampy stand of trees...so maybe the old man will be right...but when I get woken up tomorrow with "hey, I need some help with this skunk", I may get the last laugh!
Nothing like urban warfare during the off season to temper a desire for blood!
