A nose-holding citizen reports from Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury:
2 skunks out and about on the sidewalk. SKUNKS!!!
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A nose-holding citizen reports from Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury:
2 skunks out and about on the sidewalk. SKUNKS!!!
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I saw those guys yesterday,
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 8:06am
I saw those guys yesterday, too, under a car! (Now, I didn't think to call 4500... I just left 'em alone).
Just part of the local fauna
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 8:35am
Be glad they're not bears.
They're in Brighton too
By Detachment
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 8:40am
I saw one walking down the sidewalk in Brighton in August seemingly without a care in the world. There were also several days last month where I didn't see any but there was an extremely powerful odor of them in the neighborhood. I'm not sure if one had died or simply sprayed a dog in the area. 'Glad I didn't run into any while walking my dog.
Used to see skunks and
By Mick T.
Mon, 09/16/2013 - 3:48pm
Used to see skunks and racoons all the time in Brighton on Parson Street down near the Pike.
In Somerville, near Porter Sq...
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 9:18am
in one 24-hour period this summer, I saw a nice, healthy-looking skunk, four raccoons and a woodchuck. Like Mutual of Omaha in my yard.
North Cambridge, near Porter Square
By Ron Newman
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:53pm
I got sprayed a few years ago at Mass. Ave. and Russell Street. Had to throw out a whole bunch of clothing.
Is this....rare? I see and/or
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 9:39am
Is this....rare? I see and/or smell skunks all the time in Roxbury. Once, I saw what I thought was one huge skunk waddling by, but it turned out to be 4 babies all clumped together. Cute little things.
Probably not
By adamg
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 10:04am
I just liked the complainant's skunk shock.
anybody remember the Press Release on yogurt cups in recycling?
By Sarcastic Sam
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:30pm
I could swear I read an article about asking folks to crush their empty yogurt cups before recycling (particularly the Yoplait-shaped ones) because they are the perfect shape to get stuck on a foraging skunk's snout.
Sticks in memory just because the thought of a skunk wandering around with a yoplait cup stock over its face gives me the giggles ( "hey. what the.....anyone? little help? Little help over here? I promise I won't spray you!)
Insane I tell you. What are
By Gattaca
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 10:02am
Insane I tell you. What are these damn animals doing in our sanitized city?!
I can see it now
By roadman
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 10:19am
City sends DPW crew to oust skunks. Skunks get upset and spray crew.
Citizen sends second complaint to Citizen's Connect about intolerable skunk smell.
Skunks are everywhere in Boston
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 11:37am
I have seen skunks in Dorchester and East Boston. I'd prefer skunks over racoons which are also plentiful. Don't bother a skunk and it won't bother you.
Is there a bit of culture shock due to the conflict inherent when folks conditioned to sanitized suburbs and exurbs meet with the unruly hodge podge of various forms of human and non-human life that manage to thrive in cities?
Actually...
By merlinmurph
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:37pm
Seriously? This is city people freaking out at their best. We people out in burbs are used to this stuff. What's funny is when you city people take a ride "out to the country", like Stow, Berlin, Harvard, etc. and freak out when you see a turtle. ;-)
Where?
By Gattaca
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:43pm
Where?
No bears in Roslindale yet....
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:46pm
...but we once had a weasel or fisher (or some relative thereof) cross our backyard.
Now that I'm in NYC it's been
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 3:15pm
Now that I'm in NYC it's been years since I've smelled a skunk (wish I could say the same about a few other odors....) and this summer when I was up in WMass visiting the folks, I caught a whiff, and it took me a minute to remember what it was.
I have a hard time believing that there are no skunks in NYC (in the very literal sense) but I have not smelled one in the six years I've been here.
You're obviously not looking in the right spots....
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 3:24pm
They're there:
http://gothamist.com/2011/03/18/skunks_continue_th...
Middle Village?!?! That's
By anon
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 3:33pm
Middle Village?!?! That's practically Nassau County....
It could be because I don't live near a large, quiet wooded area, like a cemetery. Yeah, I'm not far from Prospect Park, but I bet there are too many dogs to make PP skunk friendly.
Check the links...
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 4:21pm
... in the Queens article -- there were even skunks sighted in Manhattan -- which seemed to really terrify people.
One year we (probably) had _rabid_ skunks around our house. (Incontinebt stinkiness is one symptom).
We think we can give the
By Brookline Turkeys
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 2:58pm
We think we can give the complainant something to really worry about.
Does anyone know...
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 3:13pm
... how edible these wild turkeys might be? Thanksgiving is coming up...
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