CanyonAg77 said:

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Rabies found in some skunks here on the DEW line lately. Be careful

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That is the beauty of the trap and the water. I never touch the skunk. I also wear nitrile medical exam gloves when handling things.

Shoefly! said:

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eric76 said:

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aggiedent said:

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If your dog has been sprayed twice in a week, clearly the problem is that your dog is stupid. You can't fix stupid.

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My last dog, Whiskey, didn't seem to mind skunks at all. He was an outdoor dog and so I figured it was his own problem.

Getting sprayed by skunks was far from his most major issue.

He never did learn to avoid porcupines. I think that we had to pull porcupine quills from his nose on 15 to 20 occasions, maybe more. I told the vet once that he hadn't seen Whiskey for a while because he had denuded every skunk in the area.

Whiskey loved to crawl inside the carcasses of dead cattle. Often he would be covered in slime that made you want to run away.

Of the three, I'll take skunks any day.

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Just curious, what was Whiskeys breed? We had a dog,a black mouth curr that would roll in a dead cow. She did this numerous times. There were times I got the dry heaves unsuspecting the smell. I miss that B*tch.

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He was half Great Pyranees.

Here's his picture:


Although he was a large dog, he lived to be about 12 years old! His mother, Molly, and at least one brother lived to the same age.

When I was a kid, the vet in the area, Doc Countryman (great name for a vet) offered my younger brother and I quite a deal. We would catch skunks and he would descent them and sell them as pets and we would split what we received from the buyers down the middle.

At the time, it had not been all that long since I had come within about three hours of the first in a series of rabies vaccinations in the belly button with a big needle (they were supposed to be around the belly button, but some doctors went through the belly button). My parents were supposed to pick me up from school to take me to the hospital for the shots, but they didn't show up that day. It turned out that they got the rabies test results late that morning and they were negative.

From the descriptions of the doctor of the rabies vaccinations, I didn't want to go through that so I thought the idea of catching skunks that were possibly rabid to be insane.

I could have done quite well on that, though, since I had plenty of encounters with skunks. One of their favorite places to hide was inside the aluminum irrigation pipes.

Since it is that time of year again.

The final tally was 15 skunks.

Triple Ace.

Had those rabies shots when I was three. I remember going to the doctor but I must have blocked out the shots because I don't remember that part. The dog bit me near the mouth so they didn't want to take chances waiting for tests.