I guess my woodpile friend has to go.

[Curlycherry1]

I have a skunk living in my unsplit firewood pile. S/he has not been a problem. Just pokes his nose into view once in a while to see me splitting the wood and then disappears.

Last night my next door neighbor said that her dogs have each gotten sprayed by the guy and one of the dogs rolled on her brand new carpeting before she knew he had been sprayed. Carpet was toast. She wants that skunk gone, dead, killed, vaporized, etc at any cost! I am almost 2/3 through splitting the wood so in a few weeks I will be done and he will have no place to live. He might have moved out already because of all the noise.

 

[o8f150]

sounds like mother nature at her finist,,she can't blame you for where that wild skunk lives,,she shouldn't have let her dogs out unattended,,

 

[dingeryote]

Skunks are kinda fun to have around. LOL!!!

They spice things up.
Removing every other pest species is straight forward and boring.

Try tossing a few handfulls of Cayanne around the woodpile den when ya know he/she ain't in there.

There might be kits in there too, so go easy.
The little ones can be stinky once they hit a certain age and three of 'em dumping Phoo gas on ya all at once is painfully hillarious.

A neighbor once had a skunk move in under his woodpile, and found flooding the area with the mixing station fill hose worked real well.
Except the skunk relocated to higher ground under his shop.LOL!!!

Covered live traps baited with Tuna seems to get them, but then there's that awkward moment of goodbye when you release them.

Keep us updated.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[SamVT]

skunks are funny critters, I don't know if they are territorial or not but every spring I have one come back underneath my barn and have little skunks, after about a month they pack up and leave. We have 2 cats and a bunch of barn cats and they have never sprayed any of them. This time of year the cats are making a killing of all the chipmunks and mice in my piles. 1 chip and 2 mice already today

 

[Curlycherry1]

This neighbor has alternated between nice and nasty. Two years ago she fed the deer all winter and when they came across my property they munched on my blueberries, causing me to get bupkus for a crop that year.

Then last year she got all wizzed that my dog periodically would sneak a pile onto her yard during the winter when I was not looking. So she proceedied to scrape up all the deer poop and dog poop and put a nasty sign out by the road with the bucket of stuff and the sign said what lousy neighbor's we were. My dog was not the only one to use her yard so she was aiming at a bunch of people. Her yard is barely mowed and full of trees and a full acre in size so there is no reason to worry about a few piles of poo.

Her dogs are ancient (16 and 14 yrs old) so I feel bad they got nailed, but she has ~1 acre fenced in for them in back and of course the skunk thinks that fenced in area has good grubs just like my yard does. I know exactly where the skunk is getting into her yard (bunnies use the same spot) so I have a way to catch him and take care of him very easily. Conibear! I have used the method a few times to lower the bunny population.

 

[Cambium]

Oh man...that sucks...I hate skunks...they're so dirty and stinky.....

How big a space do you have that they are fitting in?? Chipmonks can barely fit in my wood piles and they always drive my dog nuts!!

 

[Curlycherry1]

How big a space do you have that they are fitting in?? Chipmonks can barely fit in my wood piles and they always drive my dog nuts!!

This is in the unsplit pile. Lots of good room for a critter to get in and around inside the piles.

 

[Tofurkey]

I'd leave the skunk alone if he's not bothering you. Your neighbor seems like the type that could use more skunk juice in her house If you do trap it, you could always drive a sign stake thru it and tell the neighborhood what you think about people who don't kill the grubs in their yards:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Iska3]

Oh man...that sucks...I hate skunks...they're so dirty and stinky.....

How big a space do you have that they are fitting in?? Chipmonks can barely fit in my wood piles and they always drive my dog nuts!!

When you get that sucker, come over to our place next. I have one of them nasty buggers that comes on my deck at night. I sprayed the deck with bleach and take in the cat food so now it scratches at the door. I have 40a of corn growing all around our house and it's still looking for food.

I'd like to shoot him so he dies in the corn but with my luck he'd die on the spot. They seem to move out once it gets colder..

 

[Art Vandelay]

Put a sign in the yard explaining what a horrible neighbor you have because she has a black cat with a white stripe that keeps pooping in your wood pile.

 

[bushmaster]

ive heard of this technique to get rid of skunks:
trap in have a heart style trap
sneak up behind skunk and place large trashbag over trap so he cant see you
place skunk, trap and 1st bag inside another garbage bag
hook hose to car exhaust pipe
put other end in garbage bag, tape bag closed around hose
start car for 15 minutes
dispose of body

humane and you have a good chance of not getting sprayed

 

[Curlycherry1]

ive heard of this technique to get rid of skunks:
trap in have a heart style trap
sneak up behind skunk and place large trashbag over trap so he cant see you
place skunk, trap and 1st bag inside another garbage bag
hook hose to car exhaust pipe
put other end in garbage bag, tape bag closed around hose
start car for 15 minutes
dispose of body

humane and you have a good chance of not getting sprayed

Or place trap and critter into holding pond containing water at least as tall as the trap. Works slick. 30 Gallon garbage can is not quite tall enough to stand the big traps into on end and have them be 100% submerged. DAMHIKT.

It is illegal in most parts of the country to live trap a critter and then move them somewhere else. It is just moving a problem and often diseases too.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Forgive me, God, but "Have a Heart" traps do not work in my neck of the woods, irrespective of bait, and I have tried to use that painless trap for 25 years.

I recommend that you shoot the skunk if you ever see it. Lady (my dog) sees the skunks and gets nailed whenever she does. I'm a good shot but I never see the skunks. Regardless, I have to clean up Lady.

 

[BarkBuster20]

ive heard of this technique to get rid of skunks:
trap in have a heart style trap
sneak up behind skunk and place large trashbag over trap so he cant see you
place skunk, trap and 1st bag inside another garbage bag
hook hose to car exhaust pipe
put other end in garbage bag, tape bag closed around hose
start car for 15 minutes
dispose of body

humane and you have a good chance of not getting sprayed

How is that humane?

 

[danrclem]

If ya ask me I think this topic stinks.

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[LarryTheCableGuy]

Put a sign in the yard explaining what a horrible neighbor you have because she has a black cat with a white stripe that keeps pooping in your wood pile.

+1




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[bushmaster]

How is that humane?

no pain,skunk gets gassed skunk goes night night. no skunk running around with 1 leg blown off, no chance of "trapper "getting sprayed whie trying to set skunk free at another location

 

[Wood Doctor]

I've got a neighbor who used to say nothing to me. Last year she was out raking leaves and a skunk showed up in her back yard. I saw the skunk, went into the house, got my pellet rifle, and shot the skunk in her yard, saying nothing. I then threw the stinking carcass into a sack and carried it in my truck to a dumpster.

Next day she knocked on the door and gave me a dozen home-baked cookies. Now she talks to me.

 

[Mntn Man]

I've got a neighbor who used to say nothing to me. Last year she was out raking leaves and a skunk showed up in her back yard. I saw the skunk, went into the house, got my pellet rifle, and shot the skunk in her yard, saying nothing. I then threw the stinking carcass into a sack and carried it in my truck to a dumpster.

Next day she knocked on the door and gave me a dozen home-baked cookies. Now she talks to me.

I like that story, but would prefer to do that for my neighbor and then have them not talk to me. It's kind of hard to get anything done when they want to stop by and talk all the time when they see me outside.

 

[Spotted Owl]

ive heard of this technique to get rid of skunks:
trap in have a heart style trap
sneak up behind skunk and place large trashbag over trap so he cant see you
place skunk, trap and 1st bag inside another garbage bag
hook hose to car exhaust pipe
put other end in garbage bag, tape bag closed around hose
start car for 15 minutes
dispose of body

humane and you have a good chance of not getting sprayed

Please don't do this. It takes much more than 15min and is nothing close to humane. With the emissions control and systems on cars now days it doesn't gas the animal. The animal will die in time but it will be from heat stress and dehydration and it will take much longer than 15min. I run into people fairly often that think this will work and then try and sometimes an hour plus later, I get called(I do ADC work as a side job among other things) to come and remove the animal when they don't know what to do with a very alive and usually sick by then animal. You can walk right up to a slunk and cover the cage with an old blanket and then transport it to a relocation area(if that is legal in you area) or you can put it head first into a garbage can full of water. I personally inject with acetone. In this case it isn't causing damage so let it alone it will move on when it's living area is gone. Just cover up any possible entrance to either under or in your house or outbuildings. Not to sound like a sympathizer, but this thing isn't doing any harm or damage so why kill it?


Owl