effin porcupines

Here comes a "porcupine defense stick" thread!:p As a kid, I ate the legs from a porcupine. We threw them in the stew we were making out in the bush. It was good tasting.
 
Always lots of enjoyment when you let the dogs out and this little bugger is exploring the yard:

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Gentlemen please be very careful with beating or poisoning animals to death, it's very likely illegal, or heavily controlled even with a pest. Check your local authorities first.
At the very least, it could bring down the wrath of some anti upon you, with possible news story attached.
I hates porkies. I've pulled enough damned quills from dogs who didn't like it not to.
They destroy young trees too.
 
I'd say that the box trap is your best bet. Esp. if there may be issues dealing with pets, your own, or the neighbour that you actually like's :)

I've never trapped a Porcupine, though. Would probably start with a salt soaked chunk of 2x4 for bait.

Skunks, I've dealt with. The wire cage type box trap is good. Easy ident of the contents. Drape a gunny sack over it and be gentle, and you can transport a live skunk, if you need it away from the house for disposal.

All the cats I've seen in a live trap were sitting upright, looking offended. The skunks generally got bored, and went to sleep. Some woke up. The stripe tapers towards the head end, eh.:)

I'd say that a conibear, within a few miles of where a child might wander, constitutes a headache of grand proportions waiting to happen!

Cheers
Trev
 
Found me a live trap, filled it full of apples and hoping it works. Internet said they like apples, and the internet is never wrong.. will get back with he results. Also heard these things will travel a long ways back to yer house.

just gotta find out when neighbour I dont like across town isnt home..
 
powder burner said:
Not allowed to shoot these things in town, so how do you keep them away? they have been chewing up the wifes trees.. Some people say fox urine should deter them, just not sure how much to use. (5 gallons, 1 ounce...?) You know how neighbours can get...:)
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5 gallons should work, but how do you get the porcupine to climb into the bucket head first? :D
 
I don't disagree with the live trap, just don't do a live release, unless its in another town, not in the country, we don't need to do what town folks don't have the balls to do
 
Saw two of the fat little foogers yesterday, but they weren't on my property, so I didn't plug them.
 
The Ontario Fish and Wildlife Act says

Protection of property

31. (1) If a person believes on reasonable grounds that wildlife is damaging or is about to damage the person’s property, the person may, on the person’s land,

(a) harass the wildlife for the purpose of deterring it from damaging the person’s property; or

(b) capture or kill the wildlife. 1997, c. 41, s. 31 (1).
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Porcupines don't do much else than damage property. Shoot them where it's legal. Use legal methods where you can't.
 
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Just shoo it away with a baseball bat .... Just don't hit the poor thing <too> hard on the nose in the process otherwise you might be legally obliged to call MNR and do some splainin' ....
 
powder burner said:
Found me a live trap, filled it full of apples and hoping it works. Internet said they like apples, and the internet is never wrong.. will get back with he results. Also heard these things will travel a long ways back to yer house.

just gotta find out when neighbour I dont like across town isnt home..
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Now that's just cowardice... I vote for a water balloon slingshot!

They'll turn they're music down on weeknight if an angry porcupine tells them to at about 250fps :p

though midnight porcupine surprise could be effective...
 
Or you could hold up your snow machine track/trailer hitch/flagstone with a 2x2 covered in comeer-deer spray.
Chew chew thump.

I wouldn't recomend the fox urine. I lost a set of car tires from a porcupine that liked the taste of salty dog wizz on my tires!
 
Live traps work well. I've heard that they hygiene in critters like this is very important, so the recommendation I've been told is to wash them in the lake or a tub of water while in the trap, when the bubbles stop they are clean.
 
koop said:
I don't disagree with the live trap, just don't do a live release, unless its in another town, not in the country, we don't need to do what town folks don't have the balls to do
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They're not on the endangered species list. Kill the fluckers!
 
Hockey sticks make short work of them and give you a good reach.

If you have spectators, live trap them, take to the country, release, then use the hockey stick.

I had one move into my neighbourhood last summer, he got welcomed with a full clip from the 10/22.
 
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