On Wed, 05 May 2004 21:41:24 -0700, richard riley
wrote:

Finally I flashed on the idea of getting something that they'd be
afraid of. The local zoo has tigers, I have a contact that raises
money for them - a few handfulls of straw soaked with tiger ****
spread around and they haven't been back.

Maybe that would work with skunks. Or wolf ****.

Not sure this would work Richard, skunks don't fear much because very
few carnivores eat them. Owls are one exception. Deer fear every
carnivore (especially panthers), they are basically meat on the hoof
for all of them. So anything that smells like panther **** would make
them really nervous.

Skunks on the otherhand are given a wide berth, as I mentioned, by
most carnivores so they have nothing to fear from panther ****. Owls
don't have much in the way of smell, they hunt by vision and sound, so
a REALLY stinky dinner doesn't bother them. It might be interesting
to see the reaction of a skunk to the hoot of a local owl.

Corky Scott