How do you get rid of a SKUNK???

[Micro469]

A Skunk has taken up residence under my shed. Animal control won't do anything.....because it's spring and it probably is going to have babies. I live in a subdivision and there has been a lot of building going on around me, destroying wildlife's natural habitat.
TOO FREAKIN BAD>>>> The dang thing is destroying my lawn, and I don't want to have to put up with the stink if it gets scared on my property.
I tried blocking the hole, but it keeps digging out somewhere else. I need something that will just make it go away... Any suggestions???
*(Shooting it is not acceptable... I haven't got or want a gun.)

[dhazard]

Have you tried urinating in it’s hole?

[Micro469]

Have you tried urinating in it’s hole?

Yer joking right????

[madjack]

I bet he ain't jokin' at all...would you like it, if someone pissed in your hole...try it for several days...and remember that skunks bite
madjack

[Podunkfla]

A Skunk has taken up residence under my shed. Animal control won't do anything.....because it's spring and it probably is going to have babies. I live in a subdivision and there has been a lot of building going on around me, destroying wildlife's natural habitat.
TOO FREAKIN BAD>>>> The dang thing is destroying my lawn, and I don't want to have to put up with the stink if it gets scared on my property.
I tried blocking the hole, but it keeps digging out somewhere else. I need something that will just make it go away... Any suggestions???
*(Shooting it is not acceptable... I haven't got or want a gun.)

Hmmm... I did find this:
http://www.critter-repellent.com/skunk/ ... ellant.php

But these guys say it doesn't work and trapping is the only way?
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/professi ... skunks.htm

Personally... A shotgun comes to mind.

[dhazard]

You will never know unless you try it.

[Nitetimes]

Fox scent might chase them away. I know they don't care much for fox or maybe coyote lure. Sprinkle a little around the shed. Don't get carried away with it. it can be a little smelly, better than skunk smell tho.

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

You could do what I did...
I came home from work one day and unbenounced to me, there was a tube trap setup on the patio deck. My wife at the time, gave me a full run down of what my task at hand was...
Well, she borrowed the trap from a predetory animal control dude on the condition that we dispose of the skunk. (She wouldn't allow me to own a gun because of the children)
So, I asked her, just how the heck was I supposed to dispose the skunk once trapped, since she wouldn't let me have a gun...
She informed me that she told the dude with the trap that she didn't allow guns in the home and he had another sollution to the disposal method...
I slide open the pation door and next to the trap is my garbage can filled to the rim with water....
I was instructed to toss a blanket over the trap, once the skunk was locked inside, to calm him down a bit... about twenty minutes or so is what I recall...
Once the little guy was all calmed down, I was to take the tube trap and insert it vertically into the garbage can, with the skunk's head situated towards the sky... Something to do with him not being able to raise his tail and spray in that position...
OK... So my job was to drown the skunk, once trapped...
About that time, SNAP goes the trap!!!
I throw the blanket over it... OK, nappy-time little guy...
Twenty minutes later I take the trap and very carefully do the manuver...
Just one little problemo...
The trap is about two inches longer/taller than the water in the garbage can...
OK... Now I have a skunk, inside a trap, submerged in water, except his tiny little head and two front claws holding onto the wire mesh window at the end of the trap...
He can't raise his tail in this position, so all is still OK...
Still thinking my job is to drown him, like the dude said, I go and get the garden hose...
I blast him with that for about a half hour at full pressure, but there's just too much air to fill up, to make his head stay submerged...
Just a wee bit ticked, I decide to take a moment and step back to think...
I gotta come up with a sollution and damned quick!!!
Out in the yard sets the kids 600 gallon wadding pool...
I measure the diameter of the tube trap and compare it to the height of the plastic pool...
The pool is taller than the tube trap is round...
I lug the empty pool up onto the deck and begin the proccess of filling it up.
About a half hour later, I'm ready to switch the trap from the garbage can to the pool...
Bingo!!! We have a submarine!!!
Then I notice something odd...
The water in the pool is becoming kinda effervescent... What the heck???
The skunk is now situated in a horizontal position, so he was able to raise his tail...
I have now 600 gallons of skunk spray setting in a pool, on my deck, next to the back door of the house!!!
It took about a month and a half for the smell to go away and from that night forward, skunk smell has for ever since seemed more stronger to me everytime I catch a waft...
Almost like it forever changed my nasal cavity...
I learned a valuable lesson that night... More like two or three...


Good Luck John...

[dhazard]

If you make it think that you’re bigger and bladder oops badder than it is it will leave on its own.

[madjack]

......I learned a valuable lesson that night... More like two or three...


Good Luck John...

...kinda makes that shotgun option seem more attractive...huh ............................

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

That was one of the lessons...
The other two had to do subsequent animal situations...
About a year later my step son and his mom brought home a wolf puppy...
Long story short... When the inevitable time came, I made her take it in to experience what it's like to put down an animal.
Funny thing about the animals we had when we split...
Both of them migrated over here on their own once they figured out I was just across the street and still to this day live with me...
Smokey the cat and Chance the dog.
Joanie tollerates the cat quite well...

[Gage]

You could do what I did...
I came home from work one day and unbenounced to me, there was a tube trap setup on the patio deck. My wife at the time, gave me a full run down of what my task at hand was...
Well, she borrowed the trap from a predetory animal control dude on the condition that we dispose of the skunk. (She wouldn't allow me to own a gun because of the children)
So, I asked her, just how the heck was I supposed to dispose the skunk once trapped, since she wouldn't let me have a gun...
She informed me that she told the dude with the trap that she didn't allow guns in the home and he had another sollution to the disposal method...
I slide open the pation door and next to the trap is my garbage can filled to the rim with water....
I was instructed to toss a blanket over the trap, once the skunk was locked inside, to calm him down a bit... about twenty minutes or so is what I recall...
Once the little guy was all calmed down, I was to take the tube trap and insert it vertically into the garbage can, with the skunk's head situated towards the sky... Something to do with him not being able to raise his tail and spray in that position...
OK... So my job was to drown the skunk, once trapped...
About that time, SNAP goes the trap!!!
I throw the blanket over it... OK, nappy-time little guy...
Twenty minutes later I take the trap and very carefully do the manuver...
Just one little problemo...
The trap is about two inches longer/taller than the water in the garbage can...
OK... Now I have a skunk, inside a trap, submerged in water, except his tiny little head and two front claws holding onto the wire mesh window at the end of the trap...
He can't raise his tail in this position, so all is still OK...
Still thinking my job is to drown him, like the dude said, I go and get the garden hose...
I blast him with that for about a half hour at full pressure, but there's just too much air to fill up, to make his head stay submerged...
Just a wee bit ticked, I decide to take a moment and step back to think...
I gotta come up with a sollution and damned quick!!!
Out in the yard sets the kids 600 gallon wadding pool...
I measure the diameter of the tube trap and compare it to the height of the plastic pool...
The pool is taller than the tube trap is round...
I lug the empty pool up onto the deck and begin the proccess of filling it up.
About a half hour later, I'm ready to switch the trap from the garbage can to the pool...
Bingo!!! We have a submarine!!!
Then I notice something odd...
The water in the pool is becoming kinda effervescent... What the heck???
The skunk is now situated in a horizontal position, so he was able to raise his tail...
I have now 600 gallons of skunk spray setting in a pool, on my deck, next to the back door of the house!!!
It took about a month and a half for the smell to go away and from that night forward, skunk smell has for ever since seemed more stronger to me everytime I catch a waft...
Almost like it forever changed my nasal cavity...
I learned a valuable lesson that night... More like two or three...

Good Luck John...

Our very own Great skunk hunter. Say John, you might want to PM Dean and see what his fees are. You can't beat experience.

[Dean in Eureka, CA]

Gage,
I got two funnier animal stories than that one...
Gotta save them for the campfire though...
One about a possom and another about a raccoon.
Both stories pit me face to face with these critters during the wee hours of the morning, with me wearing only my briefs... Wait, I was armed with a broom (Launching stick) against the raccoon.
I got lucky against the raccoon... He could've easily torn me to shreads had I not connected...
Both of these stories have more to do with stupid things one can do when still half asleep, than with animals...

[southpennrailroad]

I can smell one near my trailer too but never saw it yet.

[bledsoe3]

I can smell one near my trailer too but never saw it yet.

If you're close enough to see it, you're too close.