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[lrudolph]

I regularly caught skunks in our  Hav-a-Hart trap (bought and intended for woodchucks).
Never attached a long (or short) cord to the release mechanism, but I always opened the cage
wearing a bathing suit (or less).  One time, the damned skunk really didn't want to leave; I
think it was about to become a mother, but for whatever reason, it had spent the night
carefully tearing up dried grass from underneath the cage and making a nice little nest for
itself.  Eventually I cautiously tilted the closed end of the trap up and evenually the
inhabitant found the angle uncomfortable enough to walk out the closed end.  At which point I
ran back to the house.  But no spraying happened, nor was the nest reinhabited.

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[Gillian Densmore]

Other than mice their's Cayotes, Possumes or Racoons. Years ago One had found it's way into my garbage bin. I have no idea how it openned the lid, and tried to find scraps of food. I found in the morning before work, just as I was putting a bag into the thing. It looked pretty proud of it self. One of the people that lives in the ally behind the house used to make a bit of money chasing them away or caching them.

In my case I just left it to sleep in their. Fortately the animal helping folks at the time were pros with these things and had some amusingly simple (and kind of fun) ways to deel with it. Get a cheep and small pizza  leave crumbs to it away from the house and it might go for the (easy) to get food, then close the lid. so it won't try to to back.

I also had (briefly) a possum  snoring in the chimney. That was one of the years when it dumped a bunch of snow. I have no idea how on earth it got into it, muchless get a way to sleep.I put screen for fires so it wouldn't try to go foraging in the house. Just left it their. For What It's Worth the animal guys were pretty sure it was lost and trying to find a place to sleep or hybernate. and it'd probably eventually leave to get food. Well if it cant get into the house it'll have to leave how it came. Rob had basically a simillar problem a few times. I Just left the screen so it can't get into the house.

Then their was the batS that decided the vega's (in the house) were clearly Bat Friendly...momy and dady bat thought happly slept (upside down) from the ceiling. I don't know where the kid was They didn't do much but look at me like was bonkers. I carefully put blankets around the bathroom. Hoping they'd hear (sonar) or see (their poor sight)  a wall and go someplace else. Sufficed to say by the time Animal Help came I guess mom found Jr. and their was now three bats. Possibly fruit bats that were after masquitos or stuff from the trees and thought my room was a great place to sleep.

Animal help put all three in a bucket. They didn't think they had plague or rabie, they were possibly sick with something else, and would want to find out.  They checked to make sure they didn't leave a mess behind, but just in case left yellow/white powder around the floor to sweep up  the next day.

I do have some landminds (micetraps) both the deadly and a few not deadly kind to deel with mice. Amusingly those are much more of anissue than the other animals here as they get into almost anything, carry plague and hunters virus. The field mice we have here are not the (relatively) friendlyish roof or house mice. common to arizona and california. FWIW pest control claims it's far better to trap a few and blow up others because they come in packs, their not a direct threat to humans the bugs they cary though are. plus as I found out they love human scraps and will litterally get into anything not nailed shut.

After the big problem I ocasionally find some in the traps. wich is a...unusual sight at 4am I

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:16 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

I regularly caught skunks in our  Hav-a-Hart trap (bought and intended for woodchucks).
Never attached a long (or short) cord to the release mechanism, but I always opened the cage
wearing a bathing suit (or less).  One time, the damned skunk really didn't want to leave; I
think it was about to become a mother, but for whatever reason, it had spent the night
carefully tearing up dried grass from underneath the cage and making a nice little nest for
itself.  Eventually I cautiously tilted the closed end of the trap up and evenually the
inhabitant found the angle uncomfortable enough to walk out the closed end.  At which point I
ran back to the house.  But no spraying happened, nor was the nest reinhabited.

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