Besides their infamous stink and possible rabies, they eat low-hanging fruits and vegetables and dig up lawns looking for grubs. Skip Hess writes an outdoor column every other week for The Star.Skunks: they’re one of the least popular garden pests. On that cheery note, Merry Christmas, thanks for reading and I think I’ll pass on the lumpy gravy. He shot them between the eyes, put them in one of several 55-gallon barrels behind his house and set fire to them. But he had his own recipe for the ones he caught. He promised homeowners that after he trapped them, he would release them into the wild. Several years ago, I accompanied a man who specialized in removing nuisance wildlife from homes. I, along with others, recommend commercial odor-killers sold at pet stores. But some people wrote that the best way to remove the aroma of skunk from a human, dog or cat is to soak any one of the three in tomato juice.
There are dangers in scaring a skunk, one of which is getting sprayed. He didn’t have a second thought for what to do after that because he has never found a recipe for skunk. “My first thought was to tell you to sneak up on the skunk in the darkness of night and scream as loudly as you can while ringing a huge cowbell,” he wrote.
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But he says, “Do not tell them what they are eating.”Īs for skunk, one guy said he knows how to catch one without getting sprayed. He says to add sliced potatoes and carrots and one sliced onion and a bottle of BBQ sauce, slow cook for eight hours and serve. “Skin and gut and wash! Boil in a stew pot and add a dash of salt and garlic! After the meat starts to fall off the bone, drain.” He has eaten opossum and he has a recipe he will share. A giant, half drowned, bleached rat isn’t exactly the most appetizing thing to lick your chops at,” he concludes.īut “Mikes” disagrees. “I can’t say I blame people for not eating them now. It didn’t take them long to realize that there were not any opossums for opossum pie so they had friends and relatives from the south bring live opossums to the north.”īut he says that times have changed. “Back during the depression a lot of settlers from the south moved to the northwest in search of jobs. You couldn’t be too picky or you would starve. This from Sam Z: “Many years ago you (would eat) what was available, especially during the winter months. We begin with opossums and I will just repeat the opinions of the people in the comment sections. Let’s get back to eating any one of the three. First and foremost, don’t ever get close to the south end of a northbound skunk. So you don’t have to do this, I have researched eat-or don’t-eat issues on the critter who is alive but plays dead and the one wearing the mask.Īlso, I have found information on the animal that has a white stripe down its back. 31, 2014, deadline on those finger-licking morsels, But hurry for the opossum and raccoon because the state’s department of Natural Resources has put a Jan. There also are a whole bunch of reasonable people who will disagree and want to hurl at the thought of opossum stew or biting into a juicy leg of skunk.įor those of you who still might be interested in getting this fine choice of Indiana food supply, striped skunk season doesn’t end until March 15 of next year. They are still in season and there are people who will tell you that they are tasty rascals. We’re talking about striped skunk, opossum and raccoon. There are three game animals still in season, but serving either one of them at the Christmas dinner table is not a good idea, unless you want to clear the house of in-laws.
So you may wonder what’s left to hunt in the state something that hunters can catch or kill that would put food on the table. Grouse hunting season has closed and pheasant season ends today.
And quail and rabbit seasons will be closed in a few weeks. Same for the turkey hunting archery season that ends on Jan. OK, it’s the second day of winter and fish had been feeling fairly secure with a thin sheet of ice overhead, so fishing’s on the back burner.Īnd Indiana’s deer seasons are about to end with the last phase of firearms and archery season closing in January.
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