The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126160   Message #2956003
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
01-Aug-10 - 02:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening 2010
We must have a skunk den in the area. My dogs (the catahoula this time) killed another skunk. One last Saturday night, another this Saturday night. This isn't how I like to experience my yard in summer.

These are young ones, not so heavy as the adults, but they still make a mighty stink. The pit bull stayed out of harms way, but the catahoula got a direct shot to the face, on the side under her ear. It is just such a foul smell. I'm spritzing her with the enzyme stuff about every 20 minutes. She's the one with a heavy coat. And she keeps shaking off before I'm out of the way.

The back yard smells awful, so no matter how nice it looks after mowing, and how much I'd like to resume using my clothes lines, I'm going to have to wait some more. And see if there are any gaps in the fence I can fill. Thing is, these skunks are all hair - when I look at the actual size, they might be able to go through the chain links of the fence. Maybe there is some mesh I can install on the bottom of the fence.

SRS