Comments on: Just Peachy http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/just-peachy/ Smart is easy. Good is Hard. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:34:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Christy http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/just-peachy/#comment-9132 Christy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:35:04 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/?p=752#comment-9132 You have a groundhog in your yard? That's awesome. You have a groundhog in your yard? That’s awesome.

]]> By: Rob Robinson http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/just-peachy/#comment-9131 Rob Robinson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:50:49 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/?p=752#comment-9131 Sylvan Park had someone from TWRA come to our neighborhood association meeting about a year and a half ago. She had a lot of useful information, and I posted about it at the time. It might be useful for you now, too. <a href="http://www.sylvanpark.org/2006/11/twras-polly-rooker-visits-spna.html" rel="nofollow">SPNA post</a> Sylvan Park had someone from TWRA come to our neighborhood association meeting about a year and a half ago. She had a lot of useful information, and I posted about it at the time. It might be useful for you now, too.

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]]> By: bridgett http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/just-peachy/#comment-9130 bridgett Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:27:04 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/?p=752#comment-9130 I'd think about it and observe before I sunk money into a fence. Skunks don't live very long -- usually less than two years -- and I bet you can get rid of it long before that. Skunks are usually merely passing through and they are very methodical predictable creatures. They don't usually deviate from their route more than a couple of feet and I bet you that the lunar eclipse messed up this one's sense of time -- they are usually out and around by 10 am and in around 1, so I am thinking that this might be a on-off for Msr. Le Pew. If he's digging in your yard, you have grubs in your yard and you need to put a grub-killing pesticide on it. They sell that at Loew's or Home Depot. Skunks are also (curiously) very smell-sensitive and eye-sight poor, so that makes them fairly easy to discourage. They are attracted to any garbage or outdoor food left out for other pets, so you'll want to put that in a nice tight Rubbermaid can. If you've got a woodpile, move it into the garage and keep the door closed so that Pepe doesn't bed down. If he comes back through and it looks like he's using your yard as his highway home, get something rattly -- like a couple of tinfoil pie-pans on 18" of string -- and tie it to a stake out in your yard. It will rattle around in the wind and glint a little and Msr. Le Pew will probably take a detour into some other yard. They also are really afraid of owls, so an owl decoy can work like a charm and is a hell of a lot less expensive than a chainlink fence. I’d think about it and observe before I sunk money into a fence. Skunks don’t live very long — usually less than two years — and I bet you can get rid of it long before that. Skunks are usually merely passing through and they are very methodical predictable creatures. They don’t usually deviate from their route more than a couple of feet and I bet you that the lunar eclipse messed up this one’s sense of time — they are usually out and around by 10 am and in around 1, so I am thinking that this might be a on-off for Msr. Le Pew. If he’s digging in your yard, you have grubs in your yard and you need to put a grub-killing pesticide on it. They sell that at Loew’s or Home Depot. Skunks are also (curiously) very smell-sensitive and eye-sight poor, so that makes them fairly easy to discourage. They are attracted to any garbage or outdoor food left out for other pets, so you’ll want to put that in a nice tight Rubbermaid can. If you’ve got a woodpile, move it into the garage and keep the door closed so that Pepe doesn’t bed down. If he comes back through and it looks like he’s using your yard as his highway home, get something rattly — like a couple of tinfoil pie-pans on 18″ of string — and tie it to a stake out in your yard. It will rattle around in the wind and glint a little and Msr. Le Pew will probably take a detour into some other yard. They also are really afraid of owls, so an owl decoy can work like a charm and is a hell of a lot less expensive than a chainlink fence.

]]> By: Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Something Smelly His Way Came http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/just-peachy/#comment-9129 Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Something Smelly His Way Came Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:36:46 +0000 http://shootthemoose.wordpress.com/?p=752#comment-9129 [...] Slarti has a pesky new neighbor.  So I stopped using my eyes, and started using my nose.  And sure enough, it was unmistakable: Pepe Le Pew had left a calling card in our front yard.  … [...] [...] Slarti has a pesky new neighbor.  So I stopped using my eyes, and started using my nose.  And sure enough, it was unmistakable: Pepe Le Pew had left a calling card in our front yard.  … [...]

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