I hate SKUNKS!!!!

[Davis Shorthorns]

Just a little funny from last night

My girlfriend and I were out with the dogs looking at some cows that were getting ready to calve.  Then all of a sudden we smelled the worst thing ever a skunk had just gotten one of the dogs and it was CLOSE.  It then drifted right over to us and proceded to cover us in scent.  I think that I can still smell it.  It was all over the dog who is used to being an inside dog.  We have now proceded to declare JIHAD on all skunks!!!! 

 

[justme]

My 3 corgis have had 3 run ins so far with skunks....I absolutely hate them varmits!

 

[kanshow]

What is it with corgis & skunks..  My parent's corgi had a close encounter (but not THAT close) with one recently.  If  I had to guess, I'd say that there was probably a corgi involved in Davis's incident!

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

What is it with corgis & skunks..  My parent's corgi had a close encounter (but not THAT close) with one recently.   If  I had to guess, I'd say that there was probably a corgi involved in Davis's incident!

No, suprisingly it wasn't Luke, it was my lab Suzy and the roomates dog Coda.  I think that the corgi was to short and it just shot right over his head ;D

 

[LN]

I hate rattlesnakes more! I had a 4 1/2 ft on the front porch last week

 

[LFI]

My heeler likes to tangle with them when I irrigate, then he has to ride home on the four wheeler with me - nasty!

 

[kanshow]

When we used to flood irrigate, we'd find skunks in the pipe that was piled up.  That was always a joy.    When you felt something scurrying in the pipe, you'd better hope you were the tallest or the first to drop your end.

 

[chambero]

We have a BUNCH of barn cats.  They go through about 50 pounds of cat food a week when we remember to feed them.  Back in September, we were down at the barn pulling a calf from a heifer.  My father-in-law was sitting over in a chair watching us.  He had just gotten through pouring out cat food and started laughing.  Hey - we got an extra cat.  I looked over and there's a skunk crowded in with the cats around their tub eating.  A buddy that was helping me pull asked what are we gonna do.  We replied - not a darned thing.  Just hope the cats and skunk continue to get along.  Trying to pull a calf while getting sprayed by a skunk would have added a whole new level of chaos to the process.  All worked out fine.  Still got the cats.  Still got the skunk.  Never caught him out where I could shoot him. YET.

 

[kanshow]

(clapping)  Gotta love those striped barn cats!!

I started my bottle calves on grain almost immediatly and last week I was bragging to my husband about how good they were eating.  They were cleaning up.  Then Sunday morning I walked out & found the dog playing with a dead possum right in front of my calf shed.  They aren't eating nearly as much now.   

 

[doubled]

I hate rattlesnakes more! I had a 4 1/2 ft on the front porch last week

OMG  I HATE snakes, Ill drive all the way across the yard on our lawnmower just to murder one of those things, I totally ruined my husbands best shovel one year smashing one to bits on the cement

 

[farmboy]

they get in our house all the time, wood floors are chipped up good from the years of snakes.

 

[CM Cattle]

I hate rattlesnakes more! I had a 4 1/2 ft on the front porch last week

I second that!

 

[jbh]

We have a BUNCH of barn cats.  They go through about 50 pounds of cat food a week when we remember to feed them.  Back in September, we were down at the barn pulling a calf from a heifer.  My father-in-law was sitting over in a chair watching us.  He had just gotten through pouring out cat food and started laughing.  Hey - we got an extra cat.  I looked over and there's a skunk crowded in with the cats around their tub eating.  A buddy that was helping me pull asked what are we gonna do.  We replied - not a darned thing.  Just hope the cats and skunk continue to get along.  Trying to pull a calf while getting sprayed by a skunk would have added a whole new level of chaos to the process.  All worked out fine.  Still got the cats.  Still got the skunk.  Never caught him out where I could shoot him. YET.

I have a built up, bridge plank floor in a small part of my calving barn on a farm I purchased a few years ago.  EVERY night, with very few exceptions, there's a skunk under this floor that sprays and I have to walk through it to check cows, and of course it will stick to you like cologne. I've tried trapping....dumping clorox down the hole...and everything else I could think of, BUT, every year they show up.  One night I walked in and flipped on the light switch to find 2 skunks and 2 coons.....got 3 out of the 4 with my .22 and felt like RAMBO!

Tonite I  rounded the corner of the garage attached to our back door at the house and.......there stood a skunk eating our cat food.  I'm glad to hear it's just not me.

 

[Dusty]

Just FYI.  If you pick a skunk up by the tail they can't spray...  What you do with it once you have it is up to you...

 

[shortyjock89]

Just FYI.  If you pick a skunk up by the tail they can't spray...  What you do with it once you have it is up to you...

I would hope whoever was with me was a damn good shot.  Or I'd give that skunk a REAL good toss.

 

[ROAD WARRIOR]

An old man that used to live just up the road from me would kill skunks with a pitch fork, never got sprayed that I ever heard of. RW

 

[shortyjock89]

An old man that used to live just up the road from me would kill skunks with a pitch fork, never got sprayed that I ever heard of. RW

He must be REAL sneaksy. I kill possums with pitchforks, haven't been brave enough to try it on a skunk yet.

 

[muleman]

Believe it or not. I have a critter business where I live trap coons, skunks and squirrels. I charge $70 a Skunk, It it unbelieveable what I make a year from skunks. I live in a country club area and people are afraid of them. It really helps supplement or pays for my feed each year.

 

[ROAD WARRIOR]

During the Depression my grand father would dig entire litters of skunks out of their burrows and raise them in a chicken house until their fur was prime. At that time a skunk hide was worth $3.00 and a fox hide was worth 50 cents. It worked really good until he caught a possum and threw it in the shed with about 40 young skunks, grandma said that the shed almost exploded.RW

 

[shortyjock89]

How many times out of ten do you get sprayed, would you say?  I'm not afraid of them, but I know it'd be hard to get close to the little lady smellin like one of those buggers.