Okay, here are some pictures from the last 3 or 4 months.
So there back in June I walked down stairs and was startled by a moving animal in my window well. To my surprise there was a SKUNK!!! Yes folks, a skunk in my window well. Wonderful! How was I suppose to get a skunk out of a 5 foot deep window well?! I definitely didn't want it to spray because then my house would smell forever. So I walked over to my neighbors and asked what he would do. Well, it turns out that they had the same problem 4 years ago. He just threw rat poison down there and killed it. Which in killing it, it didn't spray but it does smell, so his basement smelled for quite a while and he said that the other day he was down in the well getting a toy and he could still smell it, four years later!!! Well, I had the brillant thought of sticking a long log down there for the skunk to climb up and out. So I very carefully lowered a log down into the window well. That night when the skunk decided to wake up for the night we sat on a couch in front of the window downstairs as a family to watch it climb out. What great entertainment! We sat there for about an hour watching it try to climb up the sides of the metal and walking around in circles. It only tried the log once and fell then didn't try again. It was bound and determined to climb up the metal sides. Which amazingly enough got a foot or two up at one point. So we went to bed and the next morning it was still there. So we built a little ramp (thanks to youtube for the idea) with pegs so it was easy to climb up. That next night I stayed up until midnight trying to get that skunk to climb up the ramp. After watching youtube and realizing that skunks don't like to spray very often I took a long stick and tried to push it over to the ramp but that subborn skunk would not budge an inch. I was pushing him pretty hard but alas I had no luck. So I ended up going to bed. The next morning he was gone! Yay!!! So no smelly basement and house.
I can't figure out how to delete pictures once I have added them so anyway same picture.
