On 7/27/08 1:52 PM, in article ,
"Charlie" Charlie wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:36:37 -0700, Billy
wrote:

In article ,
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Last Tuesday I discovered a skunk in my culvert trying to feast on my
recycling. It walked funny and grumbling - no doubt rabies or other
ailment.

I backed away and called Animal Control - who may or may not have shown up.
It was raining quite hard all week.

Well, this AM (Sunday) I had a nice day and time, so I did I quick garden
walk. About 25 feet from the original sighting, there is a very dead
(partially skeletonized) skunk. Due to the oddness of the white stripe
(this one was more white than black, especially on the tail), I'm sure it's
the same animal.


So, do I let nature finish it's work - there are beetles and flies aplenty.
This is a flower garden and an area I can avoid working in for a few weeks.
Or do I grab the shovel and heft it to the woods or compost heap.

Thanks

Cheryl

I don't have specific answers to your problem but you may want to look at

http://www.t2.unh.edu/spring95/pg1.html
and
http://www.google.com/search?q=dispo...H.&ie=utf-8&oe
=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&client=firefox-a

I did read one caution about not waiting until the dead skunk starts to
swell-up to remove it. I doesn't get any better.

Call me and my offspring weird or whatever you like, but sons and I,
uh, enjoy skunk scent (not dead skunk). Sometimes it faintly wafts
over the garden (see...actual garden reference) and we are in olfactory
heaven.

However, Stan, the resident rodent exterminator, had a minor dustup
with one last year and that was not fun. Giving a cat a bath is not an
experience I wish to repeat.

Charlie, in a skunky state of mind...

Yosemite Sam: "All right, all you skunks clear out of here!"

[Everyone leaves the saloon; the last one out is an actual skunk]

Skunk: "My, weren't there a lot of skunks in there? "


I remember my grandmother's dog loved to roll in dead skunk. I don't mind
the odd whiff; but as a long term "perfume", no thanks. We did lots of
tomato juice baths.


The video of the cat bath would have been something to see.

Cheryl