03-01-2004, 02:19 PM
Skunks can be a real pain once they find a food sourse,, or think they have.. And now time is not on your side,, remember,, if that is a female she may soon have youngin's following along .. "Back in the day" when one happen to be trap along the trap line a guy had two choices.. Frist was to allow it to merely starve to death or second,, shot it.. Well me being me would shot it rather than let it starve and then I'd retrieve my trap at a later date,, a much later because of my not so well placed shot,, and the fact the enter area stunk merely because of it capture!! But you have other options....
Yepper's,,,, the first might be to live trap it and you can do this with a lil bait (canned cat food works well as well as Tuna fish) and any wooden box large enough to drop over the cridder using the old stick and pull string method.. Of course this involves you waiting for the lil monster to arrive,, then personally pulling the string attached to the stick holding one end of the wooden box, so, you may opt for a commercal live trap. Second step involves dropping an old tarp or blanket over the trap and skunk.. I advise you drape the trap over the trap so that the tarp completey covers the trap (and extends onto the ground completely around the trap execpt it enterence way) before attempting to capture the animal.. Attach a string to finish pulling the trap to the ground so its completely cover once the animal has been trapped.. Step three is to use a hose and the exhaust from your car or pickup to gas it and to send the lil bugger off to better hunting grounds.. Btw,, I suggest you have the hose hooked up to the trap before you trap the animal.... With this method the animal may stray slighly but the trap or blanket keeps it all contained to a small area..
Dependiong on your location you may also have the opt of neck shot it,, (NOT HEAD),, head shot they often stray reguardless so shooting as an opt only if your exact with the shot. Once the neck is broken it drops without the ability to spray but some scent will seep from its glans reguardless,, and in fact this is the case once the animal dies reguardless of the method used...
You could also try calling animal control but often the words "I have a SKUNK!!" places your situation at the bottom of a long and drug out waiting list of,, quote,,"honey-do's"....
Of course,, these are merely suggestion,,, Good luck OCean!!
"Theres a dead shunk in the middle of the road. Dead shunk in the middle of the road. There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road and it's stinkun' to high heaven!!"
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Yepper's,,,, the first might be to live trap it and you can do this with a lil bait (canned cat food works well as well as Tuna fish) and any wooden box large enough to drop over the cridder using the old stick and pull string method.. Of course this involves you waiting for the lil monster to arrive,, then personally pulling the string attached to the stick holding one end of the wooden box, so, you may opt for a commercal live trap. Second step involves dropping an old tarp or blanket over the trap and skunk.. I advise you drape the trap over the trap so that the tarp completey covers the trap (and extends onto the ground completely around the trap execpt it enterence way) before attempting to capture the animal.. Attach a string to finish pulling the trap to the ground so its completely cover once the animal has been trapped.. Step three is to use a hose and the exhaust from your car or pickup to gas it and to send the lil bugger off to better hunting grounds.. Btw,, I suggest you have the hose hooked up to the trap before you trap the animal.... With this method the animal may stray slighly but the trap or blanket keeps it all contained to a small area..
Dependiong on your location you may also have the opt of neck shot it,, (NOT HEAD),, head shot they often stray reguardless so shooting as an opt only if your exact with the shot. Once the neck is broken it drops without the ability to spray but some scent will seep from its glans reguardless,, and in fact this is the case once the animal dies reguardless of the method used...
You could also try calling animal control but often the words "I have a SKUNK!!" places your situation at the bottom of a long and drug out waiting list of,, quote,,"honey-do's"....
Of course,, these are merely suggestion,,, Good luck OCean!!
"Theres a dead shunk in the middle of the road. Dead shunk in the middle of the road. There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road and it's stinkun' to high heaven!!"
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