Porcupines Cause $100,000 Damage In Telluride

Porcupines are becoming a prickly pest for Telluride-area residents. Residents say the rodents are chomping on the bark of spruce trees, yard trees, and have killed 50-foot-high native trees.

[Living in Margaritaville]

Better call Paulson I'm sure he can get your a package relief deal?

[podunk]

If a tree is worth $100,000 then they are elegable for a gov. bailm out.......they should butcher trhem .. they are as good as possum....

[Megell]

A porcupine kept chewing on the wood skirting on my cabin every few nights about bedtime.
I finally bought a bottle of the hottest hot sauce I could find. Doused the chewed area with it and went to bed. I heard about two or three chews on the wood and then..nothing. Never had a problem since.

[Living in Margaritaville]

Megell wrote:

A porcupine kept chewing on the wood skirting on my cabin every few nights about bedtime.
I finally bought a bottle of the hottest hot sauce I could find. Doused the chewed area with it and went to bed. I heard about two or three chews on the wood and then..nothing. Never had a problem since.

I bet he was down at the local pub looking to wash that damn hot taste away!

[OneRyder]

Bush to resolve the issue by attacking Park City Utah. Thereby drawing the porcupines there, instead of here...kinda. What the heck, it sounds like a plan doesn't it?

[OneRyder]

Megell wrote:

A porcupine kept chewing on the wood skirting on my cabin every few nights about bedtime.
I finally bought a bottle of the hottest hot sauce I could find. Doused the chewed area with it and went to bed. I heard about two or three chews on the wood and then..nothing. Never had a problem since.

Try cayenne pepper also. I use that for squirrels and they don't come near my bird feeders when I sprinkle the pepper on the feeder. Doesn't bother the birds.

[Uh Clem]

podunk wrote:

If a tree is worth $100,000 then they are elegable for a gov. bailm out.......they should butcher trhem .. they are as good as possum....

Heck, yeah. Beaver is good eatin'.

[stopTAGGING ourWALLS]

Set traps. Obviously, the critters can be baited.

But I gotta say, those are some pretty pricey trees that grow for free.

[William Pena]

Those chomping critters love salty, sweaty wood? That's it! I'm wearing a sports cup next time I go to Telluride.

[William Pena]

Uh Clem wrote:

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Heck, yeah. Beaver is good eatin'.

Those little beaver hairs can be a pain. Just remember to floss afterward.

[Megell]

Living in Margaritaville wrote:

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I bet he was down at the local pub looking to wash that damn hot taste away!

When I looked out the window, I saw the porcupine waddling away at a full gallop. LMAO

[Uh Clem]

William Pena wrote:

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Those little beaver hairs can be a pain. Just remember to floss afterward.

Isn't that redundant?

[podunk]

TopicxHomelandSuckurity wrote:

<quoted text>Porcupine and beaver are greasy. You have to boil it in one or two changes of water before cooking. Woodchuck and marmot also, in fall. In spring they are less fatty. Muskrat is good, in some places they call it swamp rabbit because it has the same flavor and texture. Never got a taste for skunk and cat though, they're grill meat.

You want to do cat like you do possum,..hang em' over a clothes line for 3 days,...(2 days in hot weather).. and when they get a surtin smell then put them in a deep fat frier and cook them till the hair falls off and they taste like the other white meat!!!!

[Living in Margaritaville]

Megell wrote:

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When I looked out the window, I saw the porcupine waddling away at a full gallop. LMAO

That is so damn funny..........picturing it in my head as I type!!!!!

[Sheldon Clark]

OneRyder wrote:

Bush to resolve the issue by attacking Park City Utah.

Obama to resolve issue by taxing porcupines who continue to destroy trees.

[Uh Clem]

The Mote in Eugenes Eye wrote:

Extreme Eugene f@@ked a porcupine once. Poor thing walked away and said, "MAN, that was NASTY! And tTINY, too..."
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Porcupine: "Eh, what's one more small prick?'

[NASBOREsucks]

Uh Clem wrote:

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Heck, yeah. Beaver is good eatin'.

I love eating beaver.

[Grandmaster Pimpstick]

I prefer to eat shaved, waxed or trimmed beaver.

[HB Local]

Luckily it wasn't a head wobbling gopher.....

;)

[BAe]

Grandmaster Pimpstick wrote:

I prefer to eat shaved, waxed or trimmed beaver.

You forgot to mention the appendage sticking out the middle of the meal.