You can also buy (at most garden shops) fox urine. (You cannot smell it) Foxes are the natural predators of skunks, cats, chucks, etc. It comes in a squeeze bottle and you just outline/spray the area you want to keep the pests out of.. they smell the urine, think it's a fox marking it's territory, think it's not safe to go there and go somewhere else to live, leaving you garden (and porch) alone. You'll need to renew the treatment about once a month and more often if it rains a lot, but after a while the pests get the idea and stear clear of your place anyways.. 
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1987 V20 w/1987 150HP Yamaha on a Shoreland'r Trailer
1978 16.5 Airslot w/1996 120HP Force on a Four Winns trailer
1996 V21 w/1993 200HP Mercury on a Shoreline Trailer
All towed by a 5.7L Hemi Durango.
If God didn't have a purpose for us we wouldn't be here, so
Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly.
(Leave the rest to God) 
Silence, in the face of evil, is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.
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