effin porcupines
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Oh man that was funny I could watch that all night
powder burner
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
Stumbled across this. Turn the speakers on, cause these guys will solve all my porcupine problems. No idea on the prices though.
http://www.unitedwildlife.com/animalsporcupines.html
http://www.unitedwildlife.com/animalsporcupines.html
All your suggestion are good but there is a simple and cheap way to keep them off your properity Just go out and buy a box of mothballs for a couple bucks and spread em around whereever you don't want the buggers works great. We had a real problem with them at the family cottage chewing tires, Brake lines, pilings the cottages were on, etc. omce we started doing that no more problem. We also killed em on sight with a baseball bat kept inside the cottage door just for that
I laughed when I first read this thread. We have a fair number of porkies around, but I never had a problem with one. Then three days ago one showed up in a big tree in our back yard...not out in our woods, but right in our back yard, maybe 40 yards from our dog kennel. Took me about 3 seconds to decide that he was about to suffer from a case of lead poisoning.
I took careful aim with a .22mag at what I thought would be the heart/lung area...I intended to clean and save the skull (weird collection...don't ask). Porkie took the hit, stiffened, quivered a bit, then relaxed. He sagged forward...and stopped. His body hung down between the two branches of a fork, one hind leg hooked over each side, 35 feet up...and the sum##### is STILL THERE! This is his fourth day hanging upside down like a deer-scent wick. I thought for sure he would loosen up and drop off. No such luck so far.
I know I'll laugh about this someday. I'm not laughing yet.
I took careful aim with a .22mag at what I thought would be the heart/lung area...I intended to clean and save the skull (weird collection...don't ask). Porkie took the hit, stiffened, quivered a bit, then relaxed. He sagged forward...and stopped. His body hung down between the two branches of a fork, one hind leg hooked over each side, 35 feet up...and the sum##### is STILL THERE! This is his fourth day hanging upside down like a deer-scent wick. I thought for sure he would loosen up and drop off. No such luck so far.
I know I'll laugh about this someday. I'm not laughing yet.
Cleanliness is important! XD
Don't worry, the crows will eventually get him out of the tree. I like to use something with a little more punch for that reason, usually a 12ga with a waterfowl load does it nicely.
I laughed when I first read this thread. We have a fair number of porkies around, but I never had a problem with one. Then three days ago one showed up in a big tree in our back yard...not out in our woods, but right in our back yard, maybe 40 yards from our dog kennel. Took me about 3 seconds to decide that he was about to suffer from a case of lead poisoning.
I took careful aim with a .22mag at what I thought would be the heart/lung area...I intended to clean and save the skull (weird collection...don't ask). Porkie took the hit, stiffened, quivered a bit, then relaxed. He sagged forward...and stopped. His body hung down between the two branches of a fork, one hind leg hooked over each side, 35 feet up...and the sum##### is STILL THERE! This is his fourth day hanging upside down like a deer-scent wick. I thought for sure he would loosen up and drop off. No such luck so far.
I know I'll laugh about this someday. I'm not laughing yet.
These things can be a real pest here in southern ontario. A few years ago my pops was driving into town and went to brake for a stop sign. Pushed the brakes and nothing happened. Turned out some porkies ate the brake line! Fortunately he was able to stop with the e-brake, but since that happened we've had a score to settle.... The porkies won that battle but we seem to be winning the war
- Location
- Sudbury, On
Porkies are pests, no?
MauserMike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
Most towns in SW Ontario specifically name air rifles in their no discharge by-laws
If it weren't for the insane gun laws, Australia would be the place for you. We were in one little town that had those big bastard fruit bats cruizing around at night. They may have been fox bats cuz they were the size of a fcking crow.
do you guys not have a provision under your wildlife act to shoot pests? landowners in NB can shoot pretty well any pest on their land with no permit (fish and game act, section 34) except bears, bobcats, moose and deer.
skunks wont spray in a covered trap, as long as its dark and you dont shake em around to bad. if its a cage trap, wrap it in a blanket.
im licenced for Nuisance Wildlife control here in NB, and we are required to use a humane method for dispatching animals. The following methods are approved by the Canadian Council on Animal Care;
Cervical Dislocation (for small animals)
Shooting
and
Stunning
which is described as delivering a blow to the central skull bones with sufficent force to produce massive cerebral hemorrage and immediate depression of the central nervous system. after stunning the animals major blood vessles should be cut, and the chest and heart opened.
its very esthetically unpleasant, but its one of the three legal dispatch methods approved by my DNR.
like JYC said, contact your DNR to find out your options first.
skunks wont spray in a covered trap, as long as its dark and you dont shake em around to bad. if its a cage trap, wrap it in a blanket.
im licenced for Nuisance Wildlife control here in NB, and we are required to use a humane method for dispatching animals. The following methods are approved by the Canadian Council on Animal Care;
Cervical Dislocation (for small animals)
Shooting
and
Stunning
which is described as delivering a blow to the central skull bones with sufficent force to produce massive cerebral hemorrage and immediate depression of the central nervous system. after stunning the animals major blood vessles should be cut, and the chest and heart opened.
its very esthetically unpleasant, but its one of the three legal dispatch methods approved by my DNR.
like JYC said, contact your DNR to find out your options first.
