Maybe someone has some expierience with a problem skunk, and would like to relate how they took care of the problem. They are nocturnal and I can't seem to entice him out during the day...bout 4 this AM it was out making quite a smell but I couldn't spot it. Any advice would be welcome!!!
Google 'skunk trap'
Had a buddy a few years ago trap one in a small animal / coon trap. He used potted meat in it.
"Had a buddy a few years ago trap one in a small animal / coon trap. He used potted meat in it."
If the trap was big enough, you could catch ME with potted meat. I love stuff like that. Vienna sausages also, mmmm.
Don
When we had a skunk, I took a animal trap and wrapped it with a tarp and left one end open. Put some cat/dog food inside. Then watched carefully the next couple of days until he got caught. Then I put a pipe from my pickup into the trap and let him die peacefully by going nite, nite.
O.K. I'd probably say something when I heard the engine catch.
Don
Thanks everyone...I looked at your link Snoop and there are some good ideas, there was a lady that ran after one and snatched it up by the tail, the guys videoin' her were laughin' like crazy!!! They have a trap called the "skunker" that looks pretty usefull, little steep though at $160. Bet I can make one. Right now I have left over fish fry and shrimp out in the front lawn.
About 30 years ago I had a problem with some skunks getting into our garbage cans and taking over the garage. They got real belligerent and the dog we had learned it wasn't profitable to go after the skunks.
I shot one late one night with a shotgun which was a huge mistake, lived with the aftermath of that one for a couple months.
We are in a rural area and the town cop offered to give us some poison eggs (strychnine). This might not be available today but it worked really well. A skunk came around one a day so I took one of the eggs and set it out front in the driveway. Sure enough it wasn't long before it spotted it. It bit into the egg and within about 10-15 seconds it just dropped dead. I took a scoop shovel, thorough it in the back of the truck and took if off to the back forty of the farm. Hardy any smell at all. Got a couple more the same way within a short time period and ended our skunk problem.
I've never tried the trap but I don't see it as being a non smelling event!
Check with your local Game Warden and they will probably have a trap to lend or even set up for you.
How do you get rid of a skunk?? - slight hijack
I went to Paul Smiths College in the Adirondacks.
We had a classmate who trapped. It gets cold up there in the winter. Too cold to skin things outside, so he was skinning his catch in the dorm room; did it all the time.
See where this is going?
Yup.
He was skinning a skunk and slipped, hit the scent gland.
In spite if sub-zero temps, the windows were open for quite a while....
KS
> I shot one late one night with a shotgun which was a huge mistake, lived with the aftermath of that one for a couple months.
A friend of mine had one that wanted to take up residence in his crawl space. He tried blocking it off, to no avail. Then it went and had a litter of skunkettes in his crawl. He was lucky enough to get a clean head shot with his 22 while she was nursing, and managed to get mama out before things got bad. The one day old babies got thrown in the lake for fish food.
I sure hope Angel doesn't read this topic.
"Very Carefully"....;-)
O heck, you guys are all not man enough for a bit o skunk smell?
I always wanted some of that fine skunk perfume, in a bottle, so I could open up my nose, when I had a cold.
Never could find a skunk when I wanted one!
Skunkies. They mean well. I guess I never had a problem with them. I have seen them many times, just never had an "encounter", or a problem!
I breathe hard, when I cross a road killed one, to get as much as I can up my nose!
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Nate~ (as TDD)
N
She may want to come and gather up the odiferous critter and take it to a new home!!!! Had some neighbors over for a ham dinner and they had the stinky little suprise when they got out of the car,,,ran to the house, and they didn't want to leave. The skunk has directions posted on the wall of it's den on how to get to their house next. I got a start on my skunk catchin' contraption this afternoon because many people have advised that 12 gauge is not a good solution. I actually like skunks, the other half has a problem, and I'm sure the dog wouldn't like an introduction either!!!
Comment deleted, as it could turn this discussion political. (But it was funny!)
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N
Don't know if you were serious or not, but when I was young my Grandpa trapped coyotes, among other things, and it was essential to leave no human scent around the sets. He distilled an essence that not only attracted the critters, but also covered our presence which was heavily dependent on skunk. I grew up with that odor and I've always kind of liked it.
Don
So I'm not the only one who isn't put off by skunk scent? I wouldn't mess with a live one, as they are notorious for carrying rabies, but compared with rotten crab or fish they aren't that bad.
Once as a kid we went to Panama City Beach on vacation, and filled my sand bucket with those tiny fiddler crabs. On the way home the bucket spilled and several climbed under the car seat, where they rendered the car uninhabitable after a few days.
I'd think this would fit the bill as far as the skunk.
I know I know.....you vote him out and vote a newer, younger one to take his place.
The difference between driving by a roadkill skunk and having one frightened under your house is something you have to experience to appreciate.
When I was in Jr. High, that happened to us. I never saw the skunk, but the odor was about all you could tolerate and keep breathing. I couldn't hang my coat in the locker at school, and everybody wanted to sit further away from me.
