tcharlessmith
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Skunks
Anyone have a way to deter skunks? The furry 4 legged kind.
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Perrro Viejo
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Skunks
Skunks are pretty innocuous critters. They are not going to trouble you. If they are living in a place you don't want them to, board it up or screen
it. If your dogs are getting skunked buy a havaheart box trap. Trap them and take them into the hills and let them gol
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John Harper
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Skunks are cool, better than raccoons!
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JZ
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My dog got sprayed in the face about 9 months ago. It was 11pm at night. What a mess.
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pacificobob
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If you encounter a skunk walking around in daylight, it may be wise to consider it rabid
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thats not true
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Only time I got sprayed by a local skunk is when I had it in a Havaheart trap and was carrying to the back of my truck. I had a tarp over the top of
the trap, but the skunk did what they do. Our dog has been hit several times, we just don't let the dog out at night anymore.
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Fences. With no holes.
Our dogs get skunked several times per year. Keep skunk dog solution in stock at home.
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Quote: Originally posted by JZ  | My dog got sprayed in the face about 9 months ago. It was 11pm at night. What a mess.
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It's always at night, never when convenient. Tell your surrounding neighbors to get dogs, they'll shoo the skunks away before they get to you. We
used to have skunks pass through before the neighbors had dogs. Now they all have dogs and we can get a whiff once in a while but our dog isn't the
one getting nailed.
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In order to identify a rabid skunk, look out for these signs – activeness during the daytime, seizures, unusual aggression, vocalizing, stumbling,
foaming in the mouth, looking drunk, paralysis, circling movements, disorientation, and becoming extremely fearless of humans.
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I grew up in skunk country, and I am back there now. Daytime skunk encounters are common, without all the other symptoms you described.
The neighbors next door used to have a skunk with the scent glands removed, and it was a good pet!
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Rabies is more common in Mexico than some think
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I know two different people who were bit on the face by skunks while sleeping on the beach at Cabo Pulmo. What's the odds? They both had to have
rabies shots.
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Skunks, among several other animals, are vectors of the rabies virus. They can host the virus without showing the usual symptoms.
The CDC has an interesting page on distribution among wild animals.
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/wild_an...
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I had a friend bit in the face by a coyote when sleeping on a cot in Catavina. He had been drinking and had a bushy beard. We surmised he had not
gotten all his dinner out of his beard before passing out.
I hate skunks, don't like the domesticated type coyotes much either.
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pacificobob
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What are you referring to as "not true"?
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| Quote: Originally posted by 100X | I had a friend bit in the face by a coyote when sleeping on a cot in Catavina. He had been drinking and had a bushy beard.
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Guess he was "drunk as a skunk".
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