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You are so rite ,. 30 yrs ago Dianna woke me and said sumthins messin with the chikens ,! . it was about 2 a.m. . grabbed the shotgun and blasted a skunk in one of the hen laying baskets ,..they never layed in that basket again ,, and it still has a skunk odor ,, YET TOday
 
Delta Red,

LOL!

Also, never put one down right near your house on a summer's eve when all the house windows are wide open! My husband did that once, while the kids and I were gone to the lake. Sheeesh, it was the worst homecoming ever - the whole inside of the house reeked (thought about moving to hotel for a few days).
 
Hey Steve,
Funny that you write about this. I did just that in the barn years ago! STINKY and LOUD! LOL I couldn't get the skunk out of the barn, so I blasted it in the barn. I was almost puking by the time I got out the door from the strong smell. Til this day, I can't stand the smell of skunk spray.
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
I ran one thru the combine a few years back in wheat. The smell was so strong I almost puked, my eyes water for a long time.
 
Heard a ruckus from the hens late one night sure enough a skunk in the pen with them, grabbed a 22 and took care of it, figured I would wait for daylight to get it out of there.

Come morning it was one of those everything that could go wrong was going wrong kind of days and I had to go to town.
Well the thing is not stinking so it can wait until I get back.

Got back about 6 hours later and before I was halfway down the driveway I was already gagging temperature was in the 80 range and not even the slightest a breeze.

As chickens like to peck that was exactly what they did, they had opened up the stink sack on the dead skunk and how they could stand it I don't know but they were still at when I got there.

Backed the truck up to the pen and somehow between dry heaves managed to load it up and haul it out to the back pasture.

Could not keep eggs for over a week as they had a skunky smell/taste to them.
 
One of the "Naked and Afraid" reality (yeah right!) episodes, they were so desperate for food the lady found a sick skunk, stabbed it with a machete.

Yes, she paid the price dearly.

Supposedly they cooked and ate it.

Taste like "skunk"!
 
Have an elderly bachelor neighbor that asked for help one day. He went to town for lunch as he always does. You could set your clock by him, but while in town a skunk got in the house and the dog killed it in the kitchen. I was busy and have never been the house and don?t plan to. He still lives in the house
 
Since the skunk stories are going. when kids were small we had cats, supper scraps went to the cat pan outside door, wife does not like cats, she hollered scat when she took out table scraps, they all ran out of fear of a swift kick but one, that one was black and white with a fluid drive transmission, clothes hung on the drying line several months before burning as the odor would not leave enough to wash. tomato juice does help in the bath but not 100% effective
 
So the story goes. An old bachelor let a lady live with him. He came home one day, and found she was cooking a skunk. He threw her out right then. This happened years ago in our farming community. Stan
 
Every one that lives in the country has a skunk story. Dad shot one in our attic, and had a bucket of water ready to put the skunk in after it was shot. I trapped one time in my girl friends house with a box trap. I was very careful not to disturb the skunk one bit. made it out ok. Stan
 
After you shoot a skunk do NOT throw it in the burn barrel and light it. The smell does NOT go away after burning. Trust me I speak from bad experience.
 
My dog caught one a few years ago and brought through the pet door into the garage and it was still alive. Had to catch it in a trash can and take it outside for it's execution. The dog, garage and me all reeked for awhile.
 
our dogs Rennie and Zoe got blasted one night by the same skunk at same time. you know doggie see doggie do.
Rennie went after it first so Zoe thinks this looks like fun a black and white cat to chase. WRONG!
about a year later Zoe went tearing across the front lawn chasing something i yelled Zoe it's a skunk she ALMOST did a cart wheel trying to stop.
after that if there was skunk around Zoe would start to sneeze even if she was in house so we knew not to let dogs out for a while.
 
couple years ago, my neighbor was combining beans. put a skunk thru the 9650 sts combine. it sat outside for while!! elevator did take the beans.
 
Son set a live trap to try and catch a farral cat. Caught skunk instead. Old dude down the road said if you can throw a blanket over it in the cage it wont shoot ya then can let it go.. We chose to use a LOOOOOONNNGGG stick and pull the pin to open the release door. Wouldnt come out. So used a water hose with an end that shoots a direct stream.. it must have rained on him for 5 minutes before he/she got uncomfortable enough to leave..

We now use baling twine to attach to release pin if we set the live trap..

Heard you dont want to shoot them in trap or the trap is useless?!?!
 
Good advise but I don't need it, been there and done that. Old Sparky was barking at one south west of the house about 80 feet at 2 a.m., prevailing breeze happened to be from the s.w. when I blasted it. Ain't doing that again.
 
Don't shoot them in the head either. I get them in fox traps every year. Shoot them with a .22 short in the right place & it is like taking out a cat or squirrel etc. No smell.
 
....I have shot many skunks in a live trap; they clean up fine- maybe not for bobcats but all other varmints. I still say a "dead skunk is better than a live one". Good job!
 
Im contiplating which skunk story to tell. LOL. We had a smaller house dog, part rat terrier and something else. One evening we let her out to do her business and when I looked out to see if she was done she was very actively rubbing her face in the grass. Then the skunk smell came wafting in. I forget what we bathed that dog in to reduce the smell but it lingered awhile. Then there was the one that went through the combine in Kansas and the one I shot in the barn and.......
 
I was cutting wheat and cut the tail off a skunk. He sprayed the bottom of the combine. That was ten years ago and when you wash the combine you can still smell the skunk. We notilled soybeans into the standing straw and the planter smelt like skunk too.
 
I've been lucky so far I guess.
I shot one awhile back IIRC with a shotgun at a distance. It never did stink.
Went to uncles house one night and walked up on to the dark back porch. Did an immediate about face as those were not cats eating from the food bowls ! Still can't believe I did not get sprayed on that one !
 
Thank you all for the laughs. Almost had to wipe my monitor off a couple of times while I sat here eating lunch. Almost could be called today's funny.
 
When I was a kid, we had chickens and a not too skunk proof chicken house. Nests faced the back wall, and chickens had a passage behind to enter the nests. Flip down doors on the front allowed us to collect the eggs from the front of nests. Often ended up collecting eggs after dark. Would flip down and go down the line, reaching in and collecting eggs by feel. Sometimes you would reach in and encounter something rather course hairy. Slam the door shut and head for the house. We had a regular routine, any two family members could pull off. One who discovered the skunk would grab the spotlight-lantern. Other the old single shot .22.
One with lantern would indicate the particular nest box, flip on the spotlight, and open the door. One with rifle would whistle, and when the eyes were visible, would put a shot right between them. Usually could simply remove carcass with a shovel, and sometimes a little litter fronm the nest. Usually that was all we had to do. Catching them by suprise, and plinking them so quick seemed to kill them before they could get up the urge to stink.
 
Came home from college one evening (commuter), and there was a skunk hanging out on the back porch. Went to the other side of the house, knocked on the window, and had dad hand out the shotgun. He said not to shoot it on the porch, and I told him to get it off the porch. He came flying out the door, grabbed the skunk by the tail, whipped it around a couple revolutions and threw it out in the yard. Skunk ran for the garden with me in hot persuit. When it reached the garden, It went into a crouch, and I knew what was coming. So I blasted it. KNOW WHAT A 12 GAGE SHOTGUN BLAST AT 6' DOES TO A SKUNK? Ended up having to bury half the garden!
 
I ran 3 thru he swather last summer. All within 30 minutes.Couldnt get close enough to grease it. Stink times three!
 
Just the other evening I set a live trap outside the pet door in our garage to try to catch a stray cat that's been getting at our cats' cat food. Got a skunk instead.

I wasn't about to go over and pick up the trap.

I keep three firearms in the house, a .380 pistol, a lever action 30-30 rifle, and a 12 gauge pump shotgun. I took the rifle. Even though a 30-30 is 'way overkill for shooting a skunk I figured I had only one chance at it. My wife was afraid I was going to blow the new siding on the house all to hell. Blew the skunk all to hell, instead. We got a little smell, but not the whole load.
 
Hi, I found a skunk in an empty garbage can near the house .It was making noises that attracted me. I put a lid on the garbage can and put it on the pickup. I took it down the road about a mile near the lake and removed the lid then tipped the can over. The little bugr wouldn't get out. I had to pull the can back while dumping him. Luckily I got away clean. Ed Will Oliver BC
 
I've flushed them out of an irrigation pipe... some alive, some not so. The live ones were too busy sneezing and gagging to spray.
 
Ray,

Yeppers... they DO smell baaaaaad!!!

The stench really clung to the old wood siding we had at that time... then every hot, humid day for over a month - it'd come back to haunt us. Yikes!
 
A decade or so ago one of my labs charged out the door at a skunk out in the yard and the skunk got him in the face point blank. The only way I can describe it was "beyond skunk". It was so concentrated that it took it three days to get to "skunk". Tomato products taking out skunk? Wives tail. A lady told me that she found the best thing in the world for de-skunking her dogs was Massengil douche, but by the time she told me the skunk had worn off a week or few later. I went to the store and bought a case just in case I needed it again in the future, but that never happened again so I gave it to my then girlfriend because I didn't use it but she misunderstood my intent and broke up with me because she thought that I was trying to send her a message that I wasn't. One thing though, after he got it point blank in the face, his eyes mattered up real bad which a vet told me was the way it was. The stinky stuff got into his tear ducts and did damage. Didn't screw up his sight, but caused his eyes to matter from then on.

Get a hose, a sprayer, a case of Massengil and...have fun.

Mark
 
I tried that in the barn thought if I got him in the head he couldn't spray,WRONG,it was just a delayed reaction spray. Got him one shot no smell,time I got back with the pitch fork to remove him holy he!! The stink!
 
The same year I ran the one thru the 9510 I was running rye for a neighbor with the 7720 and got sprayed real good. I set outside for awhile!
 
I vote your story the best so far. On a side note, I knew a girl for a VERY short time that could have used rest of that case.
 
(quoted from post at 11:36:41 10/24/17) When I was a kid, we had chickens and a not too skunk proof chicken house. Nests faced the back wall, and chickens had a passage behind to enter the nests. Flip down doors on the front allowed us to collect the eggs from the front of nests. Often ended up collecting eggs after dark. Would flip down and go down the line, reaching in and collecting eggs by feel. Sometimes you would reach in and encounter something rather course hairy. Slam the door shut and head for the house. We had a regular routine, any two family members could pull off. One who discovered the skunk would grab the spotlight-lantern. Other the old single shot .22.
One with lantern would indicate the particular nest box, flip on the spotlight, and open the door. One with rifle would whistle, and when the eyes were visible, would put a shot right between them. Usually could simply remove carcass with a shovel, and sometimes a little litter fronm the nest. Usually that was all we had to do. Catching them by suprise, and plinking them so quick seemed to kill them before they could get up the urge to stink.
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Ray P you brought back memories of gathering eggs on a dark night and reaching into the nest only to feel a Civet cat sitting in there. I guess they are extinct now?
 
Some years back on a construction site we got to work to find a skunk in a closet behind paint cans. (High end horse barn office). We had work to do and wanted the skunk gone, I was elected as usual since I have more experience with animals. After trying a number of things and skunk not inclined to leave I thought of fire. I made a torch and used it to push the skunk out of the closet without spraying.
 
We have a cat that decided to get a little too curious one evening. It was about this time last year. The cat got close to a skunk and was hit point blank directly in the chest!! :shock:

That poor cat kept trying to come up to us for SOME sort of relief....then, just trying to get some kind of attention. After a while, she seemed happy just getting yelled at to get away! *lol*

Here's the weird part. Her chest is all white hair....or at least it USED to be. Now there's a large yellow stain in the white hairs. It started off as a very bold, dark yellow patch and has slowly faded over time, but is still there over a year later. Can still smell the skunk a little when she's been out walking through wet grasses.
 
skunk tale.......early years, 1970s....we had one in the basement on Saturday. I didn"t have a gun then.. it was Feb, too early for them to be out...called a neighbor to shoot it. He said maybe it was rabid, got out of hibernation too early. Left the house windows open overnight, when temps were in the 20s...really stunk. We sat in the last pew of church on Sunday...we were also pew.
 
De-stink receipe is peroxide, baking soda, and liquid dish soap. Do not premix. Only just before using. Proportions on the net. Discovered by chemical engineer.
 
Forgot about a couple of other stories. One night several years ago, I had gas bubbles stuck in my stomach, so was outside walking up and down the driveway. Had a flashlight, but was nice just walking in the dark. Got near the end and [i:02b8aae1e6]thought[/i:02b8aae1e6] I noticed something unusual to my left. Turned the flashlight on briefly, but that was all I needed! I had just walked right past a large, old skunk that was walking the opposite direction!! Couldn't have been more than 3' away from me!! :shock: Needless to say I just waited there for a while, until the coast was clear.

I discovered a little trick some years back. Used to have a skunk that would come right up onto the steps and eat the cat's food. I opened up the door one night and, sure enough, there was the skunk on the step; it's tail now in a raised position. I went back and got my 2 million candlepower spotlight and shined it on the skunk. it didn't like the light, and shortly after left. After that, I've found that this was something I could do at any time after dark, when it's too dark to try and shoot. Sometimes they'll be a bit stubborn and won't want to go, so I'll have to use the spotlight along with stomping on the ground and growling like a bear. I keep back about 150' to 200', and the skunk won't waste a spray since it knows it won't hit me, and also that I'm far enough away to not pose it a mortal threat. I've chased skunks 1/4 mile using just the spotlight.
 
I was working in the shop one night near the open roll-up door. I don't remember what I was working on but I was squatting or kneeling down and focused on what it was. Felt something brush by behind me and caught a glimpse of black fur. I thought it was a black cat that we have. I turned my head a moment later and realized that I was mistaken.
I stood up quickly and the skunk got spooked and ran further into the shop and hid under some shelves. I need it to leave. Can't catch it, can't shoot it. Somehow after much careful effort I finally managed to herd the critter toward the big door and out again with no damage done.
 
When I was growing up we had a mostly Labrador dog. He got sprayed once and after that he was deadly on skunks. Would even dig them out of the ground. I saw him one time take off running and grab one by the back of the neck or shoulders and get it in the air and shaking his head, then bones started crunching. When he was thru it was dead and no spray.
 
I can testify that it works.

Dog-sitting for my daughter, took her Akita out for a pre-dawn stroll and the dummy found a racing kitty she wanted to play with.

I got her to let it go (much against her will) and I don't think she got the full blast, but she definitely stank.

Read about the peroxide/baking soda and tried it, worked like a champ.

Recipe is 1 quart of fresh peroxide, 1/4 cup of baking soda and a teaspoon or so of dishwashing soap to break up the oils. As noted, mix it just before applying, the baking soda and peroxide will react and foam up. After a few minutes, it's flat and won't do the job.
 
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