6BangBronk
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Here's the details...
Moved into 80 y.o. house last year and have been working like hell to basically rebuild it. Insulate, wire, wrap and now down to insulating underneath and underpin. Made tremendous progress over the holliday. Anyways, been digging out underneath as I remove the old stacked up blocks and plywood (old so called underpinning) cause it's too low to crawl under to insulate. But there's an area under the kitchen (in the back of the house) that's very low that I haven't got to yet that has some of my insulation I had stuffed under there for dry cover kinda pulled over there in some kind of nest / den of sorts. I can't get close to see? The dogs pen consists of the Kitchen side of the house as one side of the fenced pen.
OK, woke in the middle of the night sometime to what sounded like a cat fight under the house. Got up this morning to stench of skunk but no time to investigate, had to come to work. Just got call from wife who just got home that confirms a skunk kill in dog pen. I'm thinking there was a turf war under the house last night and the skunk retreated out into the dog pen.
Here's the options I came up with. First off, I definately plan on closing up the underneath the best I can on the 3 other sides of the house outside the dog pen. Should I just wait for any critters to get hungry and slip out in the dog pen cause my chow will surely exterminate? Or should I just man up and pull the old underpinning back on the dog side under the kitchen and let the games begin, if anything's left under there?
I'd rather watch the excitement but a part of me doesn't want a dead skunk(s?) remaining way under the kitchen where I can't get to them.
I found this amusing enough for the 4x4chit chat. And I figured someone on here probably been there, done that and could give me some ideas / insight...
Anyone up for pics?
What's a skunk war worth? Kinda wished I had a camcorder to set up. But then the outcome is definately going to be gruesome cause I have definately chosen to use the dogs.
Moved into 80 y.o. house last year and have been working like hell to basically rebuild it. Insulate, wire, wrap and now down to insulating underneath and underpin. Made tremendous progress over the holliday. Anyways, been digging out underneath as I remove the old stacked up blocks and plywood (old so called underpinning) cause it's too low to crawl under to insulate. But there's an area under the kitchen (in the back of the house) that's very low that I haven't got to yet that has some of my insulation I had stuffed under there for dry cover kinda pulled over there in some kind of nest / den of sorts. I can't get close to see? The dogs pen consists of the Kitchen side of the house as one side of the fenced pen.
OK, woke in the middle of the night sometime to what sounded like a cat fight under the house. Got up this morning to stench of skunk but no time to investigate, had to come to work. Just got call from wife who just got home that confirms a skunk kill in dog pen. I'm thinking there was a turf war under the house last night and the skunk retreated out into the dog pen.
Here's the options I came up with. First off, I definately plan on closing up the underneath the best I can on the 3 other sides of the house outside the dog pen. Should I just wait for any critters to get hungry and slip out in the dog pen cause my chow will surely exterminate? Or should I just man up and pull the old underpinning back on the dog side under the kitchen and let the games begin, if anything's left under there?
I'd rather watch the excitement but a part of me doesn't want a dead skunk(s?) remaining way under the kitchen where I can't get to them.
I found this amusing enough for the 4x4chit chat. And I figured someone on here probably been there, done that and could give me some ideas / insight...
Anyone up for pics?
What's a skunk war worth? Kinda wished I had a camcorder to set up. But then the outcome is definately going to be gruesome cause I have definately chosen to use the dogs.
