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my sara saw it again tonite, eatin the cat food ,, I have not seen the bugger yet,,, at 1st I did not believe her ,, but caught a mild whif the other nite,,. seems to be a friendly sort of skunk that rogercat and skanky cat don't mind sharin their dinner with ,,// but this just ain' t good ,,, gonna search archives ,, any of you fellas know how do I get that skunk to moveon down the line ????
 
Bait a box trap with tuna fish and when he gets in the trap, throw a blanket over it and take it quite a ways away from there and release it. It won't spray under a blanket. Good Luck
 
Last time I saw a skunk on the porch it was having a mating session with another skunk right under the bathroom window. I called Marilyn to the door to look and when she saw the female squealing and squirming she felt sorry for it. When they finished one went north and the other went east and it was over with. Jim
 
told my sara that a week ago ,, but she feeds everything ,, because she is Italian , just cant help herself ,, lol
 
hose on an exhausted pipe. If you have an old carb type dump in just a bit of oil while running. Won't take much. Moth balls will also work.
 
I get them every year put a lite by the cat food in front of the house . They will come to the food and don't care about the lite I open the door and shoot them with a 4/10 and they very seldom stink they just tip over.
 
I have heard that all of my life (won't spray under a blanket, or, won't spray in a cage...). Don't believe it! They can, and they will!

First nose, er, hand experience here...
 
my neighbor used to get them in his barn really bad. They would come in to eat the cat food also. he just started feeding the cats up on a table and since the skunks couldn't get up there they went away.


Steven
 
Had that issue each of the last two years. Noticed too much food disappearing overnite. MOVE the dish a bit away from the house! Move it again a day later. I hung a 50 watt light by it....gives enough light to see to blast it with a 20 gauge shortly after dark. Works for coyotes as well.
 
Put Lutefisk under your porch, that will drive the skunks away. Of course then you will have to deal with the Norwegians under your porch.
 
Just went thru this. Spread some mothballs around and then stuff a rag soaked in ammonia under the porch. Works pretty good.
 
The cage trap and blanket has worked dozens of times for me. Of course you need to move slowly and quietly. Skunks are actually pretty inoffensive creatures and, like Porcupines, if it wasn't for their one bad trait (stink and eating my trees) I'd leave them alone.
 
Moth balls didn't work when I put them out. Watched a skunk amble right by the moth balls and it didn't move away. Moth balls didn't keep the packrats away from the house either.

Never saw the skunk again, but a rattlesnake came by and cleaned out the packrats.
 
We've got one at our house, at 1600 PA Ave, NW DC. Been there for 5 years, still don't know how to get him to move on...
 
Jim...you've lived in Harrison County long enough to know...to get rid of a skunk, you get the people to vote him into office.

How you get rid of him AFTER that depends on how much less "stink" the other candidates have around them.
 
Got me to thinking how does a porcupine do it if
she's having a bad hair day it's going to be rough
.sorry can't help myself
 
Just put a can of Lewis lye in the hole. When it gets it on its feet it will start to burn. Skunk starts to lick it & heads for water. Will not enter that hole again.
 
You're absolutely right.

Trapped a skunk in the barn one year. By time I got home that evening, skunk had pulled the trap full of loose hay. Trap was so full of hay, skunk couldn't hardly stand up. Figured he wouldn't be able to spray through all that. WRONG!!
 
Kinda like Ray Romano's (comedian) mother? If you only wanted a little more, you had to say you didn't want any more, for a lot more, ask for a little more, and if you didn't want any more, you were going to have to shoot her.

And possibly his aunt if his mom got the serving spoon handed off before she went down.
 
(quoted from post at 22:44:27 04/05/14) I have heard that all of my life (won't spray under a blanket, or, won't spray in a cage...). Don't believe it! They can, and they will!

First nose, er, hand experience here...
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Well duh. The reason they dont spray a blanket or in a cage is because the skunk dont view them as a threat (skunks dont like their own sent either so they dont spray unless they have to).

You hold up a blanket to hide the human outline, they dont get scared if a 6x6 wall that moves slowly toward them. When you gently cover the cage with the blanket, it blocks off all sight and there is nothing to scare it. Then you gently move the trap so you can kill the skunk.

If you throw the blanket or move fast or anything like that, ya, the skunk is going to spray. You cover the cage but are rough moving the covered cage, ya, its gonna spray. Dont scare the skunk and it wont spray...
 
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