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Skunks flood California city looking for love
foxnews.com ^ | 1/31/12 | Foxnews

Posted on 01/31/2012 12:56:21 PM PST by ColdOne

Love stinks!

Just two weeks before Valentine's Day, hundreds of skunks have flooded Sacramento, Calif., in search of the perfect mate, bringing with them a pungent smell and creating a nuisance for many homeowners, Fox40.com reports.

"They are everywhere," animal trapper Stephen Andert told the station.

Andert, the owner of Creature

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
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To: sodpoodle

I had a pet skunk years ago. Even after he was deskunked he still smelled skunky.


21 posted on 01/31/2012 2:06:05 PM PST by Ditter
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To: sodpoodle

My mother actually had a descented skunk as a pet when she was a little girl. Her father (my grandfather) was a zoology professor. To say that he was a little strange would be a gross understatement. The skunk actually patrolled the family garden and ate insects and small rodents, but had to be kept in the house once the produce ripened. Skunks are omnivorous and will eat almost anything.


22 posted on 01/31/2012 2:06:09 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

No and if you have - I don’t want to know;;)

I managed to live many decades before experiencing skunk spray - thought a plane had emptied its toilet over the house!!!

The dogs came in and spread the good cheer - and no, tomato juice is not a good shampoo!!!!!!

But they are cute little varmints;)


23 posted on 01/31/2012 2:08:34 PM PST by sodpoodle ( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to celebrate life and embrace the future.)
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To: sodpoodle

I used skunk musk for years, to hide my scent while hunting. It really doesn’t bother me much, many things are worse.


24 posted on 01/31/2012 2:15:50 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: G Larry
And in the California State Capital, you’d notice the differnce how? LOL! bingo we have a winner!!! Good one G Larry!
25 posted on 01/31/2012 2:24:48 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne

***...hundreds of skunks have flooded Sacramento, Calif.***

Legislature in session?


26 posted on 01/31/2012 2:32:56 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Daffynition

LOL!!!!! Excellent!! Daffynition!!


27 posted on 01/31/2012 3:18:16 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne

Sounds like an #occupier rally.


28 posted on 01/31/2012 3:19:04 PM PST by BJClinton (10 years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope and no cash.)
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To: Daffynition

That is such a great pic!


29 posted on 01/31/2012 3:25:03 PM PST by Eaker (Remember, the enemy tends to wise up at the least convenient moments.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I'll give ya a dollah if you can find a phone booth in NYC. :P

There are only four outdoor phone booths left in Manhattan – and they’re all on West End Avenue. That’s it: four. :)

30 posted on 01/31/2012 3:37:30 PM PST by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; ColdOne
>>hundreds of skunks have flooded Sacramento, Calif.<<

Where are they holding the DNC convention this year?


31 posted on 01/31/2012 3:40:56 PM PST by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Daffynition

I haven’t been there in almost 50 years, not going back either.


32 posted on 01/31/2012 4:09:56 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: sodpoodle

That smell is pungent though;)

Coffee smells like diluted skunk odor. Very diluted skunk odor.


33 posted on 01/31/2012 4:52:51 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Slings and Arrows

They should be grateful; the skunks will protect them & their town from the evil alien invaders!

(NEVER trust a bowling ball!)

34 posted on 01/31/2012 6:14:07 PM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Seriously, I had one set up shop under my woodshed one fall. I got rid of him by sprinkling the perimeter with human urine and cucumber gratings.

Over the decades, I've trapped & killed a heck of a lot of verminous pests in our barns, shops, and wood sheds...but the skunks got live trapped & released elsewhere.

IF one is careful, they are easily transported & released without upsetting them to the point of spraying. Except for the scent (and possibility of rabies) they just don't do the kinds of damage rats, coons, squirrels, possums & porcupines do to structures & the stuff stored there in.

I laughed my head off at the sorrowful look one gave my wife one evening, when she opened the door, picked up the self-feeder, and told the "cat" she'd had enough, whether she thought so or not.

35 posted on 01/31/2012 6:25:24 PM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6QKpNK9Cc


36 posted on 01/31/2012 7:39:44 PM PST by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Located, saved, and sent to my Kindle.


37 posted on 01/31/2012 8:15:04 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Looking for love in all the wrong places........


38 posted on 02/01/2012 3:49:18 AM PST by fredhead (Vegetarian - Old Indian word for poor hunter.)
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To: fredhead

Dunno - sounds like they got what they wanted.


39 posted on 02/01/2012 5:59:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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