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

[Mike Meulenberg]

I might catch some heat if I leave the thing in the trap for a week, a neighbor lady up the road is a real animal lover, and has protested vehemently about the LIVE trap. I'm amazed at how often the trap has been sprung, but nothing is inside. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out she was deliberately springing the trap when I'm not around. I'm not really sure what she would like me to do, I can't imagine that she would like to sit on her deck and smell skunk!! 
Mike M

---------- Original Message ----------
From: John Wilkens <jwilkens at eoni.com>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Skunks--you can beat 'em!
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:38 -0700

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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