Help! Skunk in live trap-Now what?

powdergun said:
At the farm we have to do this often. We take it out to the end of the pasture and turn the trap door side down on the ground. Tie a long rope to the trap and slide the door open ( remember its facing the ground so the skunk can't get out ). Step back and get ready with your prefered firearm. ( I like a .22 semi for this ) Yell "pull !! " and your buddy pulls the trap away from the skunk. The trick is to blast him before he blasts you( The skunk that is). So far Farmer 30 skunks 0.

Thats how we trap shoot around here. Whats this clay pigeon thing I hear about. L.O.L.
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LOL!!:D

A friend of mine once shot one with a 12g... Quite horrible to say the least. :D (the smell of course)
 
saskhunter said:
330 over a pail with bait inside. If trap doesn't do it then 12 gauge does. Not very forgiving on farm cats though.
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My experience with this is that the little bugger still sprays. If you don't mind the odour though, it definetly does kill em dead.
 
as long as ole peppey can not raise his tail...all is fine;) but please remember if you lift the cage...make sure its feet do not fall out. ..as this might give it the height to lift its tail...
 
some of you are pussies :D :p

over the last few years i have caught a few in my live trap while targetting coons or cats:mad: just make a little noise when you are walking up to them and be sure they are facing you so you dont startle them.

ive carried them 1/2 km before in the trap without them spraying. i havent been sprayed yet. just gotta be gentle and pay attention to how the animal is behaving.
 
Having shot skunks myself when I was young and stupid, I think the plastic or tarp over the trap is the start of the solution.
Where I differ from the drowning, carrying away the trap etc, is that I would back the car up and connect the vacuum cleaner hose to the car exhaust, placing the other end under the tarp and letting the car run for a while.
Puts them to sleep and the ones we did didn't spray.
 
Well if its still in the trap at this point might as well wait a bit longer and it will of starved to death! just dump it out :D
 
Happened to me before put a blanket over the cage take it out of town and open the cage it won't spray I promise
 
seems kinda cruel to me to drown an animal...:rolleyes:

i dont wanna sound like a greenpeace fruitcake but the animal deserves to get dispatched QUICKLY. i hunt alot and its all about respect for the animal wether its a squirell or deer. drowning or using exhaust to kill them because you are scared that you might get sprayed is kinda pathetic if you ask me:rolleyes:
 
I caught one in a live trap while trapping squirrels. I put a piece of rubber backed carpeting on the trunk and used a hockey stick to lift the trap by the handle and gently place it on the carpet. I drove a half hour out of town this way and never had anybody try to pass me. (You have to be careful not to accelerate or decelerate too quickly).

Reversed the process at the other end.

SS
 
My son in law runs his own pest control business. He uses the blanket method and just takes them somewhere else and releases them. He's moved hundreds and never been sprayed yet.
 
Slowly walk side to side don't aproach in one direction kinda zigzag throw a blanket over the cage the skunk won't spray you if he can't see you they only spray when threatened once it is covered you can move him no problem .
I've done it before we had a problem with wild cats all over our neighbourhood and I was getting them in a fox cage with cat food as bait I did get a few skunks as well once blanketed I threw them in back of my pickup and drove in to a back road tied a rope to the door and opened it up the skunk would just leave.
 
walksalot said:
MD, once a skunk hole always a skunk hole. You may try to dump concrete into the hole to seal it up but the little buggers will excavate in a different spot. Cement footing are the only way to stop this.
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Skunks like dry dens. Put the garden hose in the hole every night for a week. Make sure you leave it on for a couple of hours. The skunks will move on. Hopefully to your neighbours!!!!!!
 
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