so,i got a ****in skunk invading my property
 

bastard shows up about a week ago, coming out of the southwest corner of the yard...right about where the septic tank is(imagine that). it's just taking a couple steps at a time, nose on the ground. i hollered to the wife, "****in skunk's in the yard". she didn't make a big deal out of it, so, wth?

so, i'm sitting on the shitter this morning, scanning through the newest arrival of the "smithsonian", and she yells out, "have you got your gun?" turns out the damn skunk is back in the yard, digging up grubs.

i walk out on the back patio and yell, "yo skunk!!! get the **** out of here!". didn't even act like it heard me. kept digging and shit.

so i went back inside, got dressed and went to work.

i don't think this is over. i mean, i've shot a few critters over the years, but i ain't gonna shoot a skunk in the yard. read somewhere that if you shot them in the head, they wouldn't spray. but i don't think i'm that good of a shot. so, someone's gonna have to clean up a helluva mess. plus the smell for a few days.

i don't think you can trap a skunk...i know i wouldn't.

advice?
tia
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You can trap a skunk. Don't do it, but you can.


Ask me how I know this

Ok O. city how you know that? Also se clark you need a pellet gun!

i'll ask, but i think i already know.

also, waiting for smellypits/dobiegillis to chime in saying that the only reason skunks smell is because of the media and government feeding us jacked up info.
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you don't want to piss off a skunk, nut!
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Something kept getting in my grandparents trash so my cousin and I thought we'd trap it.

Once we went to check the trap it was night and dark. We saw something black in there, thought it was my Grammys cat. Reach in, grab it, pull it up to our faces to see which cat it is.

At that moment, we realize it isn't a cat.

Chocolate bars. Trust me. Even shooting at them failed.

And chocolate flavored X-lax. Seriously.

Trap him in a live trap. After he's trapped throw a towel over the trap so he doesn't know whats up . then you can transport him wherever in the WIFE's car.

We got sprayed a little not horribly but enough for some vomiting to occur.

Once we got cleaned up, we took the skunk in the trap and put it in the trunk of one of my buddies car.

First you'll need to train a monkey to use a paint ball gun...

Start throwing dead mice in your neighbors yard. Let him handle it.

Better advice. I'd do this.

serious? will chocolate/x-lax put them down? will they just lay down dead, or do some kind of floppy chicken thing? i don't want them spraying.
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Just shoot them though

no neighbors.
boonies
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I've trapped quite a few.

Tie a long rope to the trap, throw a tarp over it and drag it somewhere you can shoot it without having to smell it.

Neighbor let one die from heat once and it didn't spray either, and only took a couple hours.

HOW TO KEEP SKUNKS AWAY: SMART TIPS AND METHODS TO REMOVE SMELLY CREATURES

http://pestkill.org/rodents/skunks/how-to-get-rid-of/

Move out of the boonies. :D

I had a skunk in my attic at the farm. Had no idea until at 2 oclock in the morning I heard him screaming and he sprayed. I'm thinking there was a bullsnake up there that got him in a bind. Pulling bed sheets up over your nose does nothing to cut off the smell. My eyes were burning.

If it's nesting there then load up its burrow with mothballs, if it's just looking for food the leave out some chocolate exlax.

We usually just shoot them.

Last one I shot with a 7 mag. It did not spray

So is that because the skunk won't want to eat there anymore? So simple, so brilliant.

I'll help, trapped a shitload. get a live trap, cover all the way around with a blanket, put broken eggs in it and set it near the hole. when it springs, picked it up and carry to a large tub of water (bigger than the entire trap) and drop it in and place a brick on top. they will never spray. do not shoot it in the head, the nerves make it spray automatically everytime. aim and inch down, and an inch back of the front leg to get the lungs and it wont spray. trapping and drowning is easier though.

yep, I've taken them to the lake before too

You ****ing drowned it? **** man.

Do something to keep them away. Don't kill them because they are hungry.

Grrrr.

I've been told the exlax will kill it from dehydration.

i think maybe half you guys are ****in with me. don't like skunks.
tell me more about the ex-lax.
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Dude they are ****ing nasty. I would rather shoot them though.

this is what i'm looking for.
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You want it to die where you know where it is. Then you can get rid of it, otherwise as it decays it will release and you will smell it for weeks...

Yet Mcnut lives.

He's just a little guy trying to make his way in the world, just like us.

I'm serious in this thread too.

check out the last minute. the guy gags

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I had to wash my dog.

The worst way to wake up is in the middle of the night with a skunk smell under your trailer house and dog barking.

so, just shoot the stinking thing?
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Big Nasty McNut. It's a joke man.

It will also shit in its own nest which will make it move on to another.

Ex Lax sounds like it could take out ISIS.

:hmmm:

Yep. Even if it just sprays you get it for a day. If it rots its weeks. Trust me on this.

to another nest? i had a great aunt like that.
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I know:D

Oh. Well now it's all ****ed up. Shit.

ok...i'm leaving for joplin for a few days, anyway on thursday. we'll see how it goes.
thanks!
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ROFL. What imma do now?

Peaceful coexistence is the answer. The skunk doesn't want your money or your woman or even your time. It just wants to eat some bugs and enjoy a nice summer day.

Ohhhhh trap it, tarp it, put it in the back of your truck, dump it in j diddy's front yard.

Laughter ensues on cp.


If he still lives there at least.

I bet you would change your tune if you encountered one by surprise in your travels. I thought the same as you pertaining to skunks (eat it if you kill it and I ain't eating skunk unless the shit goes down) until I ran up on one on a four wheeler and got sprayed years ago.

Now they die.

mmmm

Remove it's scent glands. Have an awesome pet!

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BE THE HELL CAREFUL!

Dad had one he chased around all winter. One day it got real brave and came in his porch to eat some baby kitties. Douched the whole porch. Dad shoed it out and blasted it. Then got to cleaning. He got to thinking he might ought to call the vet.

Vet wanted the head and sent it off. Rabid. 7 shots in the stomach for 6 weeks and $3500 for him and mom later they were immunized.

If it seems fearless. Shoot it. Call animal control or incinerate it in a hot ass tire fire. Either way, if it is acting abnormal rabies is a risk. Don't **** with it. I'm serious.

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

If you're going to live trap it then use a good sized suitcase for the trap. Lay the suitcase on its side, prop it open with a stick/release trigger, weigh down the top a bit and bait it.
After you catch the little bastard you take the suitcase to the nearest druggie / scumbag part of town and leave it along the side of the road. Park a little bit away and wait. Within 10 minutes you'll be laughing your ass off. Be sure and get the video of it.

I'm a four minute drive from Hollywood Blvd. but deal with deer, coyotes and skunks on a regular basis, if not every day.

There are probably three nights a week in which I can't open the family room windows and take on the cool 60 degree air because some skunk just sprayed.

It sucks.

I'm telling you, nothing is easier than what I told you. Scent free and you can dump it anywhere. I cleaned out about 30 in town a few years ago with this method, none sprayed. Hell, when they're in the trap with the blanket I just loaded them into the back of my pickup and hauled them out to the country to put them in the tank, none sprayed. Only takes 20-30 seconds.

.22 to the noggin.

Shoot the bitch.

Skunks also hate citrus. Lemon and orange peels in the yard would keep them away. If you get one in a garage or somewhere. Just start spraying an Aerosol can spray.

Don't you know how to stop skunks from spraying ?

How?

I don't but I also don't know where they are or where they live.

My very uneducated guess would be that either the coyotes or my Labs scare them, therefore they spray.

In more than 13 years, I've never seen one. I just smell them.

The only proven way is to stuff a cork up their ass .

Your kids would love a skunk. Do it.

I once knew a lady who had a mountain lion as a pet. In her house. I wouldn't recommend that though.

Perfect!

I have plenty of cork stored up in the garage and I'll just start grabbing those little ****ers and ram it up their asses using the psycho neighbor's dildo.

Piece of cake.

Find a sexy black cat and paint a white stripe down its back. If it's a male skunk, he go boner crazy and pursue the cat. Hopefully the cat lures him away from your house.

If you know where it's coming into the yard, put some mayo lids full of ammonia out. I know that will run them out from a porch or barn.....ironically they hate the stink.


Live trap, blanket over top...go to work and text your boys to go get it.

Thats why mothballs in their burrow work.

You want to solve it?


Go to the feed store and buy some fly bait...mix some granules into a dish of Coke near where it came into the yard....or a bowl of marshmallows

Keep the dogs locked up and get rid of the carnage within site of the bowl in the morning.

Where does he get the coke from?

70 goddamn posts and NO ONE has yet mentioned putting out a bowl of ****ing antifreeze? What the hell has happened to this place?

That just might work

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divorce her.

Shoot it and bury it. It will stink for a few days but it will go away.


I have killed dozens of the ****ers.

Bet that skunk and 8 of his buddies wouldn't get shutout 3 out of 4 games

ANTI-FREEZE?
NUKE IT FROM SPACE IT'S THE ONLY WAY?


plan a vacation...
get the double barrel out
shout it right before you leave
come back inna week and hope you killed it?

Dead as a doornail.

it's not out there this morning. going home tonight to mow...figured i'd pick up some poison at the farm shop and place it around the border of the yard & woods. might get some tree rats too, but they're a pain in the ass.

we'll see.
thanks,
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We have the same issue (except the Hollywood part). Two sides of our property is bordered by a peach orchard. The skunks love to come up our driveway to dig in the orchard (or eat the fruit that falls off the tree in the late summer). We don't have A/C so we open our windows at night to cool the house off. I am forever having to jump out of bed at 2 am to rush around and close the windows because of a skunk going by our house.

Our last Aussie loved skunks too and would get sprayed at least a couple of times a year. The tomato juice thing does no work (my folks used it to try to deskunk their Bichon Frise and ended up with a pink dog that still reeked of skunk). There is a recipe on the net that is a mix of hydrogen peroxide, Dawn dish soap and baking soda and that really works. It's what we used with our dog and would leave her pretty much skunk free (it's hard to get it off of their face). Our current Aussie hasn't tried to play with the "striped kitties" but it's probably a matter of time.

Not to sound like a pinko or anything, but what's he doing to you? Why not just leave him be?