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I suspect I have a skunk living under my utility shed, since I have been smelling one around there and can see where something has been burrowing under the shed...

A couple of nights ago I set a live trap and baited it with cat food. Two nights in a row something sprung the trap, evidently by trying to get the bait through the side of the trap, so last night I set up my trail cam by the trap to see what was going on..

This morning there were about 100 images...No skunk, but at least a dozen different cats..

I guess I'm gonna have to go down to the local feed store and buy a sack of 'Purina Skunk Chow"...hehehe.

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We had a whole skunk family visiting our back yard two springs ago, luckily my dog pointed them instead of going in for the kill and crisis was averted. After I shined the light in their eyes I never saw them again, I also called a Skunk trapper because that was the last critter I wanted to deal with. Never caught one but that was ok with me. Good luck

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I have never caufgt a skunk in a livetrap, but I have friends who have done it, and this is waht they tell me. Approach the trap very slowly and deliberately, making no abrupt moves.

Place a small tarp, blanket or something similar over the trap, skunk and all. Very slowly and deliberately pick up the trap and place it in the back of your truck ( or preferably, someone else's truck, hehehe). Drive out in the country, and carefully release the skunk , or drop him trap and all in the creek and come back tomorrow for your trap.

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Most of the "proper" skunk traps are real short in height so the skunk can't (or isn't supposed to) spray by raising its tail.

I bet if Dan set that conibear trap out the first think that would show up would be that darn skunk! Whew.....

oh ok, shows how much skunk trapping i do lol

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Lawdwaz Grand Master

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I have seen & smelled dead skunks on the roads lately, tons of them. Must be the young ones getting kicked out?

Also had a couple calls to clean up the stink in the house also. I don't get too involved in those anymore in my business. They can get pretty expensive.

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Cabin Fever Mentor

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I have heard the whole tarp or blanket hink over the box trap. I still like the conibear idea better. They are dead before they can even spray.

I've been a NWCO for several years and have caught 1,000+ skunks in live traps. I've never once been sprayed. They will spray with a conibear! Even if it's just released along with other bodily fluids after death. Honestly, for liability reasons, a conibear just isn't worth the risk of catching the neighbors cat or dog in the trap. If a neighbor went out looking for fluffy or fido, that didn't return home last night, and found it in your conibear, the Humane Society and God only knows who all (media?) would be called and on your ass. Not worth it. JMHO...

If you don't want to mess with it or risk being sprayed, hire someone.

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Lawdwaz Grand Master

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I watched a pro trying to get a mom and the babies once and saw, with my own eyes little ones walking across the trigger in a Havaheart trap and not tripping it! The pro (a lady) snuck in with a pole and hit the trigger and caught the little buggers and took them to the gas chamber.

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Most of the "proper" skunk traps are real short in height so the skunk can't (or isn't supposed to) spray by raising its tail.

I bet if Dan set that conibear trap out the first think that would show up would be that darn skunk! Whew.....

a skunk cannot spry unless it's hind legs are braced (firmly pushing againt the ground) of course i have never tested this theory but it sounds like a really good idea lol

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a skunk cannot spry unless it's hind legs are braced (firmly pushing againt the ground) of course i have never tested this theory but it sounds like a really good idea lol

Old wives tale..I have personally disproved that theory and talked to a couple of friends who have also disproved it, much to our chagrin...

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hydrogen peroxide works well to rid the skunk smell from the body. can any one tell me if there are inserts and nocks that i can use on an old easton gamegetter ll 2117 arrow. yes i cut the old tapered end off along with the nock and now want to replace it with the insert and new nock. just becase i wanted to lol. i know the question will be asked lol

pm please with any info, gotta go for now'

thanks

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Ok, there is an image of two things that I can't picture going together .... live traps and skunks.

I had to trap one once. it was getting my garbage under the deck I got a hav-a-heart trap and got it the first night. the next morning I took an old drop cloth and covered the trap and hauled it down the road a bit. never got sprayed at all
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