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Posted on 10/06/2025 2:23:20 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
Yesterday evening I killed a skunk in my backyard and left it to be picked up this morning. I set my trail camera out because when I killed a skunk previously, it was gone by morning and I was hoping it would happen again.
Sure enough, it was gone but no photos on the camera. There was a brief blur but nothing else.
This is a mystery to me and the only thing I can think of is that an owl might have swooped in and snatched it up.
Any thoughts? I know the camera was working because later last night it captured my neighbor letting out her dog.
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Bear Gryll’s on his survival show ate a skunk once and said it was one of his worst mistakes. Apparently the stink permeates the meat. Made him nauseous. Said he would never do it again
I have to force myself to do it because it's a stinking mess to dispose of them.
I drop them in a heavy duty construction garbage bag, quickly seal it, then drop it in another one and repeat. Then I have to leave it on the side of the garage till garbage pick up day. But you can still smell it.....
I live in a highly populated area north of Detroit and skunks are everywhere. There's more skunk roadkill than there are squirrels.....
Do you have possums? They clean my yard up regularly.
FWIW, about 15 minutes ago I spotted another skunk just off my back deck.
.22 thru the lungs, and I’ve never had one let loose.
Maybe I’ve been lucky but was given this advice by someone who swears by it.
Having chickens, or a grub infested lawn makes anyone a target for skunks.
Skunks can lay waste to both.
Only gotta change 3 letters in the lyric to apply here...
Foxes nearly wiped them out in my neighborhood. Not enough owls to do that where I am and there are plenty of mice and squirrels for the few owls we do have. Skunks are just starting to come back this year.
From the guy that drinks his own pee. Savage.
Skunk Ape
My landlord neighbor once shot and killed a skunk in his yard and had to leave the house because of the stench. I put the dead skunk at the bottom of an active compost pile I had going in my garden. Six weeks later, the carcass was garden soil. I couldn’t find any trace of it, not even bones.
RFKJ?
“Bear Gryll’s on his survival show ate a skunk once and said it was one of his worst mistakes.”
IIRC he also picked up a fresh elephant turd, squeezed about a quart of water out as he held over his head with open mouth and drank it. Nothin’ better than fresh squeezed... It was a good survival show while it lasted, I think he ate or drank something gross frequently.
I’ve got 5 trail cameras out around my house. We catch deer, bear, bobcats, coyotes etc. I put out certain types of food quite often with trail cams pointing right at it. I’ll get a bird or something, see the food still there then another bird or animal and the foods gone. Happens all the time where you never see what took the food.
Skunk is still just food..maybe a turkey vulture. At least you caught a blur but that doesn’t mean what took the skunk was what you filmed.
El Chupacabra.
I’ve tried shooting and drowning em. They always let loose. The cat got t it once from the OUTSIDE of the trap. I gave up- just take faraway to woods and let go .
“ IIRC he also picked up a fresh elephant turd, squeezed about a quart of water out as he held over his head with open mouth and drank it. Nothin’ better than fresh squeezed... It was a good survival show while it lasted, I think he ate or drank something gross frequently.”
Oh ********! Well, there went breakfast (gag, gag, gag…)
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