caught 2 in the back yard last week-they have a den under the wifes art/craft building in the backyard. Been fighting them for 3 years now since we moved in. What is the best way to irradicate them completly? Sure don't want to tear the building down, but it might be coming to that. was hoping our dogs presence would be a deterrant, but not so much. trying moth balls in the hole they crawl under the fence and in the holes they crawl under the building, set that up this week-also plugged up the holes were they crawl under the fence-anything else we can do?

The only way I've been able to irradicate them is to keep trapping them. Dont block their holes....this is their known travel lane. Keep putting Conibar 110 trap in the holes both at the fence and under the building . It will take a while but you will eventually win.

I’d be careful not to set a Conibear anywhere that a cat or small dog could get into it. Even a 110 is big enough to get a head into. I almost lost my English cocker to choking in an illegal Conibear 220 bucket set.

keep trapping them.

last year i got 7 under the AC. i used a live trap just cause, grin.

Tube trap and make the underside of the shed unavailable.

Run out there and grab em!!! I had several quail dogs that hated those SOBs. They would kill one, then want to bring it to you.

Common sense always prevails. If there is a potential of pets, You can take several pieces of firewood creating a make shift tunnel to crawl thru. Skunks and weasels will. Only cat I've seen do it was feral, so no loss. Since no bait is involved, that rules out dogs WITH the tunnel.

I stopped skunks from living under the chicken coop in two ways. First, I filled the space under the building with gravel when I put in a new floor. This kept them away for a couple years. I then took 4' high hardware cloth, bent it in half in an L placing it in a trench dug around the building ~18" deep and ~30"+ wide, then filled back in. I haven't had a skunk under the coop in over a decade, so far.

I live trap them. Cat food for bait. We shoot them in the head with the 22 in the trap. I get 1 or 2 every year.

If you aren’t using exclusion methods like the hardware cloth example above, you will just be trapping skunks. They want to den there, make that as unwelcoming as you can.
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Small catch alive trap with sardines and apples.
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