[AT] OT - Skunks--you can beat 'em!

[John Wilkens]

Medium size live trap with bait (yep, dry cat food works fine--if you 
can keep the cats and magpies away).  Pre-fasten a long length of 
baler wire to the trap so you can drag it slowly away from the house 
(down wind) without getting sprayed.  You can shoot it with a .22, 
pick it up with a lomg-handled shovel, and bury it.  The smell mostly 
blows away in a few days.  Hose down the area to speed up the 
process.      Here's another method that only works in dry 
weather:  put the live trap out with the usual bait and go off and 
leave it for about a week.  The skunk dehydrates to the point that it 
can't spray.  I did feel a little bad for it and took it up the road 
a few miles in the piclup and turned it loose.  No problem.  It just 
waddled off into the woods.       John



At 10:21 PM 03/29/2010, you wrote:
>I find cat food to be an excellent bait <g>.
>Some years ago I had a skunk that would walk up to the door waiting for
>his share of the bounty.  Called him Stinky.
>If you haven't tried cat food as the bait for the trap consider trying it.
>
>David
>NW NC
>
>On 3/30/2010 12:14 AM, Rupert wrote:
> > Hello Mike,
> >       You could consider turning it into a pet. :-) Skunks are very good
> > mousers so will keep the mice away and maybe rats too. They are also
> > good at keeping unwanted solicitors away. :-) We had one living under a
> > grainery that did regular patrols around the other buildings  including
> > the house every morning for about 5 years before something happened to
> > it. We never saw a mouse while that skunk was around. Even the poodles
> > we had got along with it. Only worry was it might tangle with visitors
> > we wanted.
> >       IMHO, don't try to shoot it under the deck as you will smell it for
> > years if it decides to spray. About the only way to remove it that I
> > know is what you are doing- trying to trap it. Maybe try a different bait.
> >
> > Rupert
> >
> > On 3/29/2010 8:51 PM, Mike Meulenberg wrote:
> >
> >> I have several skunks living under my deck, I managed to trap 
> one in a live trap, but the other(s) have proven to be much more 
> elusive. My deck is about 12 x 20 and is about 10" off the ground 
> at the side furthest from the house, and gradually tapers up so 
> that there is very little space where the deck meets the house. 
> I've looked under there, but can see nothing. I know that there is 
> still at least one under the deck because when I stomp on the deck 
> it releases a little skunk funk. I would love to hear any ideas you 
> guys may have for flushing it out of hiding. Thanks, Mike M
> >>
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