Remember my how to catch a Skunk question

ditchwitch · May 31, 2016

Well i ask and as always yall give me good information. Cat Food was the best. Just a little hitch in this capture. Yes did have a Skunk didnt catch her. She had actually got ran over a couple days ago by a neighbor. The hitch was she had babies. We had surveyors finishing up on this property we bought and they noticed the dead skunk and the babies still trying to suckle her. Surveyor said give me a box he will take them home,, Well he didnt. They ended up under my house 2 days later. Wife spotted them one evening while checking on this newly acquired kitten which is a totally different story. I coached them out with Cat Food they were so cute and so hungry i couldnt just kill them. I actually was able to pet them and picked them up by the nap of the neck put them in a cage. I then called wildlife rescue and i hauled them over to there place and were glad to have them. So it was pretty cool.

farmerwithmutt · May 31, 2016

I think the scent glands can be removed and then there like a cat. Wouldn't that be fun ? Visitor comes and your pet skunk walks out.

D beatty · May 31, 2016

I have always thought it would be nice to have one for a pet. I remember years ago mowing hay and cutting the legs off young skunks. The hay was so tall you couldn't see them.

Gary Mitchell · May 31, 2016

Great ending! gm

MN Scott · May 31, 2016

To descent skunks you cut an X over the vents. When they heal the scar tissue seals them up, no more stink. Skunks make good pets with the exception of mating season. They about go wild wanting to get out and mate.

notjustair · May 31, 2016

That's the one wild animal I don't have a problem with. They keep to themselves and avoid me as much as I avoid them. They are kind of cute.

Steve@Advance · May 31, 2016

Now THAT is one surgery I would want no part of!!! LOL

ditchwitch · May 31, 2016

I know .I will admit i was a little leary. The one that had more white on it had me worried the most. It seemed to have that tail jack up little bit to much. i have a video on my phone but i dont know how to get it one here.

big tee · May 31, 2016

I used to be the same way.................Tee

rossow (mn) · May 31, 2016

Thank you for not just killing them. A lot of people consider skunks to be evil and will kill them just because they are skunks. Maybe they do occasionally eat bird eggs, but they also will eat mice, grubs and bugs you don't want around anyway. They just want to survive.

Billy NY · May 31, 2016

Good ending for sure. I had one get in a live trap a few years back, and it was not all that disturbed, so I gently reached over with a hockey stick, flipped the latch and lifted the door. This guy strolled right out and left the area.

I think its worse to shoot them because they let off that scent bomb. They don't seem to bother much around here, I get one or 2 every season around the house and the neighbors, we just avoid each other, no harm done. They will eat turtle eggs if there is no rain to wash the scent, I raise a nest or 2 every year and release when they grow a bit the next summer. I have to cover the nest area with hardware cloth, skunks and coons are likely the culprits. Its nature anyways, amazing any ever get through.

I've done similar things to catch and release when possible, thinking what it would be like to reverse the roles, its more risk and work no doubt, but rewarding when they can be given another chance. I have problems with wood chucks every year, sometimes I just have no choice, but there have been many times I was able to relocate them in places where they are no bother.

ditchwitch · May 31, 2016

It was a great experience actually. I am 56 and only seen 1 skunk in the wild maybe 2 if i think real hard. Now always seen them smashed on the road but not live ones. And to have two babies that i actually petted and picked up was really pretty awesome. And didn't get sprayed on top of that lol

Elmo · May 31, 2016

many years ago I caught a half grown skunk with my bare hands and didn't get sprayed! Me and another guy were repairing some downed phone lines out in the country. A mama skunk and three young ones crossed under the road in a culvert. I got on the other side and waited for the last one in line. We thought the young ones were too young to spray. They were walking with their tails up and I just caught the last one by the tail and picked it up. Mama and the two siblings just kept going unaware of the abduction the one that I caught. The little feller kept trying to bow up but couldn't because he couldn't get traction on air. Then I started wondering what to do with it.
Along came a guy in a pickup truck, stopped and asked what we were going to do with it? I said I don't know and the guy said can I have it as they are supposed to make good pets. I put it in a phone box and gave it to him. He got about a hundred yards and junior let loose in the box and the box was pitched out the window and junior escaped and I hope he was reunited with mama.
Moral, don't put a skunk in your truck!

ditchwitch · May 31, 2016

LOL man that would be awefull ..., i put them in the back of mine when i hauled them to the wildlife
place. I did put a towel over the cage just in case they didnt like the ride and decided to spray
the back of my new truck.

GregCO · May 31, 2016

Pretty cool. We had one when I was a kid as a pet. Not all that different than a cat. He was fun and really messed with people when they came around.
I have a friend now that has one that comes around at milking time. They pour her out a little milk and she takes off till the next milking.

Greg

JerryS · Jun 1, 2016

Back in my teens a fellow in my community gave me a baby skunk, about six weeks old. He was a neat little pet, but I was convinced he needed to be de-skunked. A vet who had never done the surgery before did the deed, but the little guy didn't recover from the trauma.

My parents were friends with a family who, like us, owned a dairy. They had two or three skunks who had the run of the place. They were just like friendly cats; when a car drove up in front of the house they came out to greet the visitors. They got a lot of funny reactions.

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