In a message dated 5/4/99 8:49:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> I guess the home remedies for repelling skunks under porches didn't work,
>  eh?   Do the dead bird and rodent have any connection to the skunk problem?
>  You seem to have a proclivity for attracting undesirable wildlife.

Well, the dead pigeon and squirrel were encountered in unrelated site visits
for documentation -- a similar source for Heidi's own "materials to be
deaccessioned," no doubt. The skunks ..... well, let's just say I wasn't a
very good shot. I couldn't even hit them with a trang-kee-lizer (as an old
vet I knew in Vermont used to say...). I did find a device that emitted some
kind of high frequency noise, however, that supposedly drives skunks away. I
was going to post the ad on BP, but got swamped (under dead pigeons and
squirrels). If I find it again, I will send it on. It looked like my kinda
thing.

Mary