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There's been a couple of big skunks hangin around my place,and I want em dead!They come right up on the porch,looking for leftovers from the cat.If the cat is eating, it'll run it right off and take over.So,I could shoot it, but that's liable to end up in a stink,landlord might not be impressed.
Was talking to my dad about this,he said he'd been told fly bait/poison mixed into some food will kill them dead and right quick too.Any truth to this? I can often see them coming from the bush to check out the porch for food,so I could have it readyand put it out so that no neighbourhood pets are endangered,even though that's unlikely here.Any other suggestions?

Box trap with solid or covered sides. When caught you can move them and release of just sink trap in a pond or creek.

I know a guy that used to trap skunks at all the local turkey farms (skunk heaven)

He'd approach the live skunk in a foot trap and shoot it broadside and pretty far back "right at the last rib prety much gut shot" he said, with a .22 short from a revolver.

Thats was what he settled on for his sprayless skunk death method.

I've never tried it.

Skunks are a gamble. No guarantees. The Animal Control Contractors usually live-trap 'em and hit 'em with a syringe. It's expensive and rightfully so. I've heard northern dave's method many times, but it's still iffy. Good luck amigo.

Remove the food source, and the skunks will leave. Feed the cat INside the house. Fixes the problem and you don't get skunked.

catch them in a live trap then put a heavy duty trash bag over the end of the trap and open it with a stick to get the skunk in the bag. now find the car of a person you really hate and need to get even with and toss the bag and skunk in the car. be sure to leave the bag untied so mister skunk can get out.

ratsmacker's cure is best.

Number 1 carrier of rabies.
They gotta go.

Is there a woodlot? Pour food along their trail and put an end to coming all the way to the porch. Feed them there for a few days.

Once they're trained dig a post hole about a foot wide and 6 ft deep right next to the food bowl. Head shot from the correct angle might roll 'em right down the hole but if not ease 'em over the edge with a stick and shovel in the dirt.

If no wood lot is available the neighbor's back yard will just have to do.

Head shot (behind the ear), and they probably won't spray. DO NOT GRAB A HIND LEG.Don't ask how I know this.

LOL, somebody said if you get their back feet off the ground, they physically cannot spray. Good luck wit dat.

I had a student that would remove them from live traps by grabbing the tail and hoisting them out. We used squirrel sized Hav-a-Harts so that they couldn't spray while in the trap. He never got sprayed. However, I recommend catching them in the live traps and drowning them.

If you break their back, they can't spray either, and I have dispatched a couple with a .22 long rifle that way, but I had a couple of others where the spine was not hit and those did spray. I went to using a 12-gauge shotgun with No. 4 buckshot. If you center them in the pattern, they die instantly and don't spray.

If your farm store carries a fly poison called Golden Malrin, they will eat it and it will kill them pretty quickly. I used it in our horse barn up in Nebraska and some of the skunks and coons didn't make it but 4 or 5 ft from the pan before expiring.

Golden Henry, or Blued Ruger works nearly as well as Golden Marlin - but in a different way.

Shoot 'em.

Experimentin' around with 'em is great if you don't have any females or friends in your life. If I tell the old lady I caught one, she can smell it for days. If I don't mention it, I'm usually good, using gloves and a long limb.

Thats the stuff I heard about,with similar results. How do you get them to eat it,or is that not a problem?

We have a live cage set up with cat food inside. Possums and skunks are taken out back and dispatched with 22lr into the back of the head, near the ear. Have not been sprayed yet.

Well - sez you.

If they're eating cat food, just put out a pan of it where the cat food was. They eat it readily.

About 3:00 a.m. my SIL came up from the downstairs bedroom that he and my daughter were camping in to announce that there was a skunk in the window well, and it couldn't get out.

Fortunately, we had some doggy downers left from flying our pooch out here. One was supposed to be enough for a 25 pound beagle. I pressed 2 into a Rice Crispy treat, and tossed it in. A while later, I was able to put a board into the window well so it could climb out. Next morning it was gone.

Living in town, I've discovered that offing raccoons with a 22 is less likely to draw attention if you do it around July 4 and late at night.

I've heard you can trap them in the open at night in the hot summer and leave them in the trap through a hot day and they take a dirt nap without spraying.

>chuckle<

Tricky as coons are, they'll learn right-quick not to spend the 4th at your place.

Now, invest in a good pellet gun..........