Skunks

micheal

Just thought I'd let you know about that. I thought it was a neat fact.

Hope this helps!

Karl

Have live trapped them in the common mesh animal traps - spoiled meat from the back of the refrigerator is great bait. Throw an old blanket over the trap for transport and disposal of the critter - throw it in the pond seems appropriate.
Otherwise release and shoot. Have also caught them in muskrat traps, placed at the mouth of the burrow. Best to shoot these on the spot, they're a little perturbed when they get a paw in the the trap.

Then there's the story about Grandpaw and the skunk on the porch. Came home one evening, and found one on the back steps. Retreated around the house, pounded on the window, asked for a gun, and Grandpaw handed out the 12 guage. But he warned, "Don't do it on the porch!" So I invited him to get the critter off the porch. Next thing I knew, Grandpaw blew out the door, grabbed the skunk by the tail, spun it aound his head a couple times, and let fly! Skunk landed on his feet, about 50 feet out in the yard, shook himself off, and proceeded to walk out toward the garden, with me in hot pursuit. When he reached the garden, he began to take exception to me following. He lifted his tail and went into a crouch..... It was him or me! BOOM! It was him - all over the garden! At six feet, a 12 gauge will spray skunk all over! I had to bury a whole bunch of garden! Moral of this story - skunks have to crouch, feet on the ground, and lift their tails to do damage - watch for those signs, and be able to take proactive action. If they're not seriously disturbed, they probably won't spray. Understand they don't much like the spraying results either!

In early spring - say February, or March, when we have a warm spell, they awaken from hybernation, hungry as heck, all bets are off - they'll spray anything and everything - kinda like "gettin' up on the wrong side of the bed." (We're in Michigan.)

They make live traps for skunks that have solid sides. If they can't see you, they won't spray?

One I saw was just the doors and trap mechanism and you could mount it to the ends of an 8" piece of PVC pipe (like sewer pipe.) The traps have good user response but I'm please to say I've never had to use one.

Now, back to normal mode....

When you charge after that skunk with your arms waving over your head... be sure to yell something like...

"Hey Y'all, WATCH THIS!!!!"

I'm told skunks fear that.

Okay, I lied about the video cam and the lady.

(Personally untested)

Other than that, wait till it comes
out (usually right at dark)
and pop it with a .22 or 12 gauge

(Personally Tested)

Them things make right good jerky.

It'll scare him real good.

Be sure to post back and tell us how things went.

On the other hand....

You could just wait til congress enters another session and close up his access before it returns.