Hello Everyone,
Today I have featured some of the hints that all you helpful
readers sent in to help with Debby’s stinky problem.
Sorry, I couldn’t post every email sent in….
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Get a Pole of any kind hang a wind chime or a couple of
small cans I used Vienna Sausage cans the noise bothers them
and they will leave and make a new home somewhere else I had
to do this several times animal control said as long as they
are not harm anything they wouldn’t do anything
My husband had skunks under his workshop. Every evening he
would fill their hole in with dirt but they kept digging
back in so he got some chichen wire and put it down a few
inches under ground and secured it to the workshop. They
tried to dig back in but the chicken wire stopped them.
They moved on down the road.
I can sympathize with Debby. I had a skunk in my cellar that
got in through a crawl space. I called animal control and
they wanted $75.00 I’m on a fixed income so NO. Anyway I
borrowed a strong sprayer from a friend and filled it with
amonia. Sprayed the crawlspace and parts of the cellar.
Bingo. Not only did the skunk leave but a few other were
in the crawl space.
Tell Debby that moth balls will send those skunks on their
way in a hurry.
Put mothballs around where skunks are, cats will not go
near them.
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Elizabeth
October 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Please…do NOT put out mothballs – scattered around. You CAN, however..put a bunch of them in an old coffee can – with holes punched in the lid – it concentrates the odor – and will chase away ’some’ animals. Putting out loose mothballs runs the risk of children picking them up thinking they’re candy(squirrels and birds have the habit of initially picking them up and dropping them anywhere when they realize they’re inedible). They’re POISONOUS…and you can poison your own or someone else’s children as well as domesticated pets!
As far as animal control not coming out if the animals aren’t doing any harm. Precisely! Why would you want to remove an animal from your property who isn’t doing any harm? Where do you think they’re ‘removing’ them to? They are actually killing them…and for what? For merely existing?
We’re technically trespassing on their properties since we keep building more homes into wildlife habitats. It’s easy enough to live in conjunction with wildlife if they have a reasonable water source far enough away from our homes…but we simply don’t want them getting into attics, walls and basements. Check your eaves for holes, use chicken wire and a good sturdy staple gun to close up any access to your attic or basement (first making sure you’re not trapping an animal or her babies in a nest inside your home because it will frantically search for a way out, or in).
Ammonia might chase them away because it smells like urine. But the fumes can be deadly if mixed with a chlorine product, so be very careful with its use. Don’t use it to clean up cat urine indoors – it merely enourages cats/dogs to ‘go’ again on the same spot. Vinegar and some commercial enzyme products which destroy the stain are a much better bet.
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