skunk.

[TexPrep]

Yikes!!!
We live in a master planned community but we still have gators,coyotes,possums and skunks!!!
The dogs love anything that gets over or under the fence.
They eat the possums but they tried to taste the skunks this evening unfortunately.
Bad idea for them.
They'll be sleeping in the backyard for awhile.

 

[Amish Heart]

What is a master planned community? Is it a housing complex with HOA?

 

[GeorgiaPeachie]

What is a master planned community? Is it a housing complex with HOA?

A master planned community is one that the developer planned and developed…consisting of different areas of the development that have different housing pricing. They normally share nice recreation areas and pools. Many of them consist of 55+ age groups…not all of course.

 

[rainingcatzanddogs]

Just be glad it wasn't a porcupine!

My dog Hazel....

So we take her to the vet and $2000 later she no longer had quills in her throat...(she actually caught the dang thing)

A week later....Seriously Miss Hazel?

What I have done for skunk that does a decent job is mix Lavender oil, lemon grass oil, sandalwood oil and dawn dish soap and wash them down...rinse, repeat. Works pretty good.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

A paste of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda with a drop of Dawn dish soap. Rub in. I keep a kit of it in the workshop.

Tomato juice is for you Bloody Mary afterwards.

 

[TexPrep]

Just be glad it wasn't a porcupine!

My dog Hazel....

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So we take her to the vet and $2000 later she no longer had quills in her throat...(she actually caught the dang thing)

A week later....Seriously Miss Hazel?

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What I have done for skunk that does a decent job is mix Lavender oil, lemon grass oil, sandalwood oil and dawn dish soap and wash them down...rinse, repeat. Works pretty good.

One of my female boxers had a run in with a porcupine,a skunk and a feral hog.
I let out the dogs before daylight when I heard her yelp,knew right of the bat what had happened.
Woke the Wife up and said Katy just got into it with a porcupine,She said how do you know?
Asked Her what else could it be? Sure enough She had a full beard of quills in Her face.
Thankfully She didnt get any down Her throat and a pair of pliers and some peroxide She was good as new.
Thing is She's a total sweetheart and wouldnt harm a soul.

 

[TexPrep]

What is a master planned community? Is it a housing complex with HOA?

Not really.
It's a neighborhood that was designed from the ground up.
Housing prices range from 250k into the multi millions price tag.
It was ranked #1 in the US several years ago,not sure where it sits today.
We moved here 16 years ago after an attempted home invasion.
Sad really,when we got married it was a nice neighborhood but after that attempted home invasion and people renting their homes to undesirables it was time to get out.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I've had horses get in to porcupines before. Its tough to get a horse to settle down enough to get the quills out.
When I was a kid I'd get sprayed by skunks a couple times a year. Mom wouldn't let me in the house and I had to hose off outside. I was made to ride in the back of the bus on the way to school.

 

[Amish Heart]

Something like The Villages?

 

[TexPrep]

Something like The Villages?

Ah....No.
They're luxury communities with golf courses and more amenities than you can count.
Just do a search on google.

 

[Flying lead]

A paste of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda with a drop of Dawn dish soap. Rub in. I keep a kit of it in the workshop.

Tomato juice is for you Bloody Mary afterwards.

Out of desperation I used Pin-sal straight up on my german Sheppard worked better than expected. After washing off he smelled like a pine forest. You have to get really close to smell the pole cat perfume

 

[Schattentarn]

Skunks come out a night. Keep the dogs in at night and they should not be a problem. I don't know about gators though. Maybe the master planned community should hire a hunter.

 

[TexPrep]

Skunks come out a night. Keep the dogs in at night and they should not be a problem. I don't know about gators though. Maybe the master planned community should hire a hunter.

The gators mainly live off one of the nature trails but we do see them in the golf course pond behind the house on occasion.

 

[Amish Heart]

My sis sees gators in Florida where she lives. No thanks. We do see skunks, and are a menace around us just like raccoons. They'll take down chickens at any opportunity.
You live in a very fancy place, TexPrep. I'd think I was in a resort all the time.

 

[TexPrep]

My sis sees gators in Florida where she lives. No thanks. We do see skunks, and are a menace around us just like raccoons. They'll take down chickens at any opportunity.
You live in a very fancy place, TexPrep. I'd think I was in a resort all the time.

We moved here mainly for the security.
It's gated and patrolled 24/7. One of the best things is no solicitors,if they do manage to get on the property they wont be there for long.
And you wont find my house on Google street view because they're not allowed to film here.
Crime is almost nonexistent.

 

[Amish Heart]

You'd have a fit if you saw where I lived. Ha. So very different. Our farmhouse was built in 1908 and leans a bit on one end. Smack in the middle of a small amish community of just under 700 people. We are dual language here, english and penn dutch. Not unusual to see horse and buggy here. Farmland. Out my front door, across the dirt road is 100's of acres of winter wheat coming up right now. We all grow big gardens, most all are farmers, everyone has animals. Windmill off my front porch, was put there to pump the house water and the wash house water. We don't have crime, either. Everyone here knows everyone.
Can you grow a garden?

 

[Schattentarn]

You'd have a fit if you saw where I lived. Ha. So very different. Our farmhouse was built in 1908 and leans a bit on one end. Smack in the middle of a small amish community of just under 700 people. We are dual language here, english and penn dutch. Not unusual to see horse and buggy here. Farmland. Out my front door, across the dirt road is 100's of acres of winter wheat coming up right now. We all grow big gardens, most all are farmers, everyone has animals. Windmill off my front porch, was put there to pump the house water and the wash house water. We don't have crime, either. Everyone here knows everyone.
Can you grow a garden?

This sounds very nice to me.

 

[Amish Heart]

Thanks. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Thanks. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Thats how we feel about our place too. We'll stay in the mountains as long as possible.

 

[TexPrep]

You'd have a fit if you saw where I lived. Ha. So very different. Our farmhouse was built in 1908 and leans a bit on one end. Smack in the middle of a small amish community of just under 700 people. We are dual language here, english and penn dutch. Not unusual to see horse and buggy here. Farmland. Out my front door, across the dirt road is 100's of acres of winter wheat coming up right now. We all grow big gardens, most all are farmers, everyone has animals. Windmill off my front porch, was put there to pump the house water and the wash house water. We don't have crime, either. Everyone here knows everyone.
Can you grow a garden?

Sounds like my kinda place. I'd fit right in being Dutch.
I've lived in the boonies and I miss it.
You dont need 24/7 security and gates to be safe.

 

[Amish Heart]

No one here is really dutch. We all have Swiss ancestry. Penn dutch is the language for the amish. But there are differences in dialects depending on what community you're in.

 

[TexPrep]

No one here is really dutch. We all have Swiss ancestry. Penn dutch is the language for the amish. But there are differences in dialects depending on what community you're in.

My brothers ex wife lived in Minnesota and she moved back once she got full custody of our Niece.
We watched Her graduation on YouTube and I was shocked at how many of the kids graduating had my last name!
My family used to be the only one in Houston with my last name and now there are dozens of them.

 

[Mountain Dragon]

No one here is really dutch. We all have Swiss ancestry. Penn dutch is the language for the amish. But there are differences in dialects depending on what community you're in.

I tought the Amish are using an kind of very old (ancient) german? In fact with my swiss german (which is anyway different from german) i can understand a lot of this Amish speak.

 

[Amish Heart]

It is mixed with some german. One of our sons is fluent in german, but not in Penn Dutch, and some is the same. The language was brought to America in the 1700's by the first amish boat, and again in the 1800's by the second boat. So it's developed in America since then. What is interesting is that alot of it is not so much written, as it is spoken. And the Bible that is quoted and read in church is the German one. The letters are taught and written old script style and are still taught today as the alphabet in the amish schools.

 

[DrHenley]

I thought the Penn Dutch were actually Penn Deutsche (German word for German)

 

[Mountain Dragon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch

 

[Amish Heart]

Amish America is another good site to look at regarding the language and customs of the Anabaptists.