[FRIAM] organizations

[lrudolph at meganet.net]

I regularly caught skunks in our  Hav-a-Hart trap (bought and intended for woodchucks).
Never attached a long (or short) cord to the release mechanism, but I always opened the cage 
wearing a bathing suit (or less).  One time, the damned skunk really didn't want to leave; I 
think it was about to become a mother, but for whatever reason, it had spent the night 
carefully tearing up dried grass from underneath the cage and making a nice little nest for 
itself.  Eventually I cautiously tilted the closed end of the trap up and evenually the 
inhabitant found the angle uncomfortable enough to walk out the closed end.  At which point I 
ran back to the house.  But no spraying happened, nor was the nest reinhabited.