Posted on 04/10/2019 2:14:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
Get a bottle of Parsons Ammonia. Get 4 tennis balls. Soak the tennis balls in ammonia. Throw them under your house. Skunk will leave.
The gal behind me has a Shelty and she first saw the skunk a while back when she let her dog out in the yard one night. She said the dog was nose to nose with the skunk and the skunk went on about it's business since her dog is totally harmless......
Since there is a chance it has babies now, do you think it would actually leave them behind?
When I was a kid, by friend a few doors down the street had a pet skunk. That skunk was really friendly and I didn’t find out for 2 years that they never had it descented.
From what I understand skunks live about 2-1/2 years in the wild, but when kept as a pet will live about as long as an average cat. The thing even used a litter box. Diet was fruit, cat food, green peppers and just about anything else.
This will take a little time but...
1. Go down to Home Depot and buy an 2x8 foot vinyl carpet runner and a couple boxes of long thumb tacks.
2. Spend an evening inserting the thumb tacks about half-an-inch apart in the runner.
3. When finished, unroll the runner along the part of the deck where the skunk has dug.
Critters REALLY don’t like walking on something that hurts their feet. It’ll retreat (or maybe move to another part of the deck, in which case see #1 above.)
Having lived through a skunk infestation several years back, I can tell you what not to do.
#1 DO NOT SHOOT A SKUNK! The dang thing will expel all of the scent and your grass will be dead in that spot for the rest of eternity. Even bleach won’t cover that smell.
#2 Do not catch and release in someone else’s neighborhood. That is a serious crime in most states, which is really too bad because I really wanted to leave one of them at my old boss’ house.
Now I can tell you that trapping them is relatively easy if you use a DQ BBQ sandwich for bait. They love them. Make sure you have attached some sort of rope to the cage to slide it along the grass since you do not want to pick that cage up with a skunk in it. Hubby towed the thing out to the middle of our field and threw a tarp over it. He then connected a hose to the car exhaust and ran it under the tarp. Not the nicest way to kill one, but it sure beat starving one to death. He thought about drowning one, but couldn’t figure out how to get the cage into the pond without a close encounter.
Last tip, never let your child buy a black and white car. Pretty sure the skunks thought it was their mother ship. Had never had an infestation before that time and haven’t had one since. (Knock on wood)
Simple...Move...
Maybe. The one I shot was in our garage one night back in 1982 and I heard something out there. We lived in a country area and I grabbed my .22 and opened the door and my cat zipped past me, bolting at the skunk. That cat, all 20lbs of him, was on a mission. I grabbed the cat as it was about to leap and tossed him to the wife in the doorway and the skunk was about to fire so, POW, one shot and it dropped dead. . . And the stink was released. Took a lot of cleaning and scrubbing. Gawd awful.
Um, you don’t live near a body of water ?
Hav A Heart. When it's full, just throw a blanket over it and carry it to the nearest body of water.
Chuck it all in, walk away smiling, and go have a beer.
Leave it alone to do its thing. Don’t bother it at all or scare it and it will eventually leave on its own, maybe luckily with babies. Had the same experience one year and no problem. I even followed mom and babies when I saw her out and took pictures. Neat animals so just leave them be. They will leave. Don’t worry about it but pretend it isn’t there.
Until the skunk comes out wearing 4 tiny snakeskin boots!
There is food there...grubs? You have to destroy the food supply or make the area completely inaccessible. Trapping is no good. Killing is no good. Another skunk will move in to fill the niche.
I had not considered that possibility. I know that the skunk under my house left. But I don’t know if there were young involved. The mammalian maternal instincts are strong. I would guess yes, she would take the young. But you might consult a animal removal expert.
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