Yesterday morning about 5:30, I was online and heard a scuffle on my back porch. We have an outside kitty (came w/ the house can't beat her hard enough to get her to live inside, nice older cat, Angel) (Yes, she's spayed and no, she doesn't hunt, long story) We do have a problem w/ 'dumped' and hence multi-generational feral cats. Thinkin' that one was staring to beat up on Angel, I turned on my porch light, jerked open my door to scare the stray off...........To my horror....I found myself about 4' from a skunk who promptly jumped off the porch and sashayed under my house.......Yes, there is an opening, yes I spoke w/my DH multiple times......needless to say, it will now be taken care of, thought it had, anyway.........What is an effective way to move this (lookin' very well fed) skunk along? I've heard about mothballs, do they work and do I need to buy out the 2 nearest hardware stores? What surprised me is the lack of smell...Maybe it's young, no mistake that it is a skunk, just no noticeable smell.........
What time of yr do they generally have babies in southern Oregon? I'm thinkin' I'm on short time (if this is a female) Although I was lookin @ the tail end of it, I didn't take time to register male or female, silly me........
I don't really want to shoot it (I've witnessed some disastrous results of that, and it was a clean kill)