smokey-seven
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hate to say it, but I think I would prefer porcupines over skunk.
Damn. I ain't never seen one in mASS. Ever.
Damn. I ain't never seen one in mASS. Ever. Saw a couple driving to SE Ohio for a wedding a decade ago. Mostly in PA and WV. We also saw a baby bear trying to climb a fence to get onto the highway. But I digress.
I've seen it in real life. My last dog had it about as bad as the dogs in the pic.. Plus she had quills in both paws. That ended up in a $150 vet bill. But on the plus side the dog never went after one again. Or a skunk either. One run in was enough for her. And no, I don't shoot them. In fact, the porkies feed from my compost bin most of the year.For those that have any feeling for protecting Porcupines or not shooting them while hunting, then you have never seen this in real life.
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Oh, man, no...My lab will not mess with a live porcupine. If I bury a dead one she will dig it up and come back with quills in her face.
Yeah, going for a groundhog we trapped a huge ppine - filled the trap. A trap meant for coyote. He was fine. I released him and he waddled off. Amazing number of quills are still up for grabs. (Karma?)Porcupines don't exactly go looking for a fight, if only because they're slow as heck.
I crossed paths with the grandfather of all quill pigs in Wisconsin, thought it was a young bear at first glance. We had our german shepherd on a short lease because he had a history of tangling with skunks, and were glad of the leash. Porcupines can live for +25 years, this guy must have been up there, was entirely done up in shades of gray. Hard to gauge how big he was inside that mass of quills, but just head to tail he was longer than our adult german shepherd.
I've got a few little ones on my property here in NH, but as long as they don't try to eat my house or tools (apparently they like the salt) I'm a live-and-let-live kind of guy.
Our female Akita killed a huge skunk in my backyard.
Skunk must have weighed 20 pounds.
Dog took a direct hit to the head - man, what a stink!
You aren't looking very hard. LOL, They are all over that state. I kill everyone I can, They are destroy valuable timber, by girdling the trees. Where I live now I drag them off into the woods for the coyotes to get quilled.Damn. I ain't never seen one in mASS. Ever. Saw a couple driving to SE Ohio for a wedding a decade ago. Mostly in PA and WV. We also saw a baby bear trying to climb a fence to get onto the highway. But I digress.
Ended up getting a skunk in the hav-a-hart trap. That stunk.
A big havahart? Gotta use the right size for skunks, I've transported them in the right sized one and no smell.