Posted on 04/10/2019 2:14:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
OK, what kind of live trap can you use that can be handled with a live skunk trapped inside? We are plagued with them and coons on a piece of property we own. We aren’t there enough to keep up by shooting, so we are co-existing, with the cat food disappearing like lightning.
Easy...burn it. Burn it all.
Invite a Democrap over. The skunk won’t be able to stand the smell.
Do not shoot near your house. If you hit one, its muscles will relax and release the spray under/near your house.
Also consider moth balls and/or vinegar as a deterrent.
You need a Great Horned Owl, they eat skunks and the smell doesn’t bother them.
Since there aren’t owls for sale maybe playing recorded GHO calls all the time would turn off the skunk on your place.
Or borrow a large boa constrictor. lol
The usual method of disposing of a trapped skunk is to cover the trap with a tarp and then drop the trap, skunk and all, into a 55 gallon drum of water. Hired trappers of course don’t do this in front of customers but take it off to do at home so the customers still have a feel good feeling about the Have-a-Heart trap. Moving skunks around to release is kind of risky since they can carry disease to new animal populations.
You could try to locate the den entrance and flood it... she might move the kids out. Then fold some wire fencing into an “L” profile and stake all around the deck with the lower bent part out about 16 inches or more. This is because animals that dig are often not quite bright enough to start digging 16 inches out but instead push their noses up against the vertical part and try to dig there. They can’t get through because they never back up away from the fence to get their nose under the flap sticking out.
There is poultry wire made with a bottom flap for just this purpose but it is harder to find.
As we said in the infantry. When in doubt, use more c4.
But rewire afterwards or foxes or coons or granola crunching liberals will use the den.
Pop a beer. let your wife deal with this problem.
clorox
That is unspeakably cruel. Your neighbor is a jerk.
Spray something foul smelling on it. It could work.
First get rid of the cat food. That stuff has flavor enhancers that are like crack to coons. They cannot resist it and will get brave enough to paw up your jeans to beg for it- it makes them so stupid, AOC stupid.
No feed or seed of any kind left out for any animals or you will be swamped by panhandlers of every sort that will gobble up all the bird nest eggs in the area, too.
.22 CB caps, quiet, headshot....dead skunk
It had to get back to the babies.
The cat food bag is kept in the house, but the kitties are fed in two places, one outdoors with full knowledge the stuff the kitties leave will get the disappears. The other dishes are in a big old dairy barn we attempted to skunk-proof, with kitties accessing through a “door” cut in plexiglass several feet up on the side. Coons we try to deal with with Coca-cola and Golden Malrin.
I found using a squirrel trap works great. Some might think it cruel, but you can’t just pick up a cage with a skunk, or skunks in it without jeopardy spelled s-t-i-n-k, so let them sit in the cage in the elements until they expire, and then dispose of them. Usually one day, then bury them the next day after. I’ve caught up to six in one 24 hour period. They just pack in. For bait I use the cats kibble be it Meow Mix, or Kit Kaboodle.
Here’s one similar to mine:
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