Skunks

[Eric Wettschreck]

There are just a TON of skunks running around my place lately.

Here's the weird thing. A good friend of mine called me to his place early this morning. I walked into his garage and it looked trashed. Stuff was all over the place. He has a suspended ceiling and he tells me "Look up there." Like a sucker i poked my head up between the tiles and took a peek.

There's a skunk in his garage ceiling.

We put a couple of 2 x 6's up there and made a ramp for mister Le Pew to walk down. Hopefully tonight he'll decide he doesn't like his current home and walks down them. If he doesn't, aside from shooting him and stinking up the garage, how does a guy get a skunk down from a suspended ceiling?????

[swamptiger]

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If he doesn't, aside from shooting him and stinking up the garage, how does a guy get a skunk down from a suspended ceiling?????

Verrry carefully....

But seriously, if he doesn't come down, I'd try using some cat food sprinkled down the plank..

[Jarrid Houston]

Put out some food (bait) corn or apples, or even some dog food should work... Lure him down. Could also live trap. Make sure to cover the trap with a blanket when he is in there.

[MuleShack]

Put some of those poison mouse blocks up there, may he go in peace.

[Eric Wettschreck]

We put a couple of deer fat scraps on the ramp last night.

Came home today, looked all over, and could not find our new friend.

Apparently he didn't like his new home and hit the road.

[gopher_nation]

You could give the Turtle Man a call. He's always getting sprayed and doesn't seem to mind it.

[Musky Buck]

Hear ya, shot 14 now this fall, the last 2 were kinda smart, so I led them out of the barn with a catfood trail, I'm concerned it aint over as these temps warm up here again I don't doubt I will add to that 14 pile, add in a wood chuck,opossum, and 7 coons and my yard has been a slaughterhouse this year, at my mom/dad's over deer weekend I heard some rustling around in her garbage can in the garage and you bet a skunk fell off the workbench right in there, lol told dad hey one of your cats fell in the garbage can and can't get out he goes out there lol, he nearly reached in lol.

[Random guy]

Who in the he** let the skunks back out?! Four of them stkinin overgrown rats in my mink sets yesterday.

[jigginjim]

Would a body trap work better to keep them from spraying up the area trapped. Had some in a leg hold couldn't get close stunk up whole area even my rubber boots smelled from it.

[half-dutch]

Moth balls are supposed to work as a repellant so your new tenant doesn't come back.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Would a body trap work better to keep them from spraying up the area trapped. Had some in a leg hold couldn't get close stunk up whole area even my rubber boots smelled from it.

Nope, I've gotten plenty of them in a 220 and the area didn't smell it's freshest for quite a while.

[Random guy]

This is the only way to deal with the stink cat. Spray proof skunk trap.

[lichen fox]

Don't know what's wrong with you youngsters! When I long lined I'd catch up to 150 skunks a year...sure the first on of the year made me gag a little but here is how I took care of them...leg hold trap...I always wore hip boots, even on dryland for scent control...22 rimfire pistol on my hip...walk slowly up to the skunk...talk to the skunk if necessary to calm it down...then "quickly" step on it's tail with one foot and pop it between the eye's with the pistol...keep your foot on the tail till it's done spraying...all spray is limited to a 3 to 4 inch area that you can easily dig out with your trowel if you don't want to pop the stake and move the set...but I still usually moved the set a few feet as it was just as quick.

[Eric Wettschreck]

I never did this........but........my grandfather always told me to grab them by the tail, pick them up, and pop em in the head with the .22. According to him they can't spray without weight on their hind legs.

When I was trapping I had a pair of rubber/leather gauntlets I'd wear for drowning mink. Gramps gave them to me. He told me to wear them when picking up the skunk so when he starts to bite and scratch it won't go through the gauntlet. Again, I never did this.

I don't know if there's any truth to this, but I do remember a couple of times where he would dig them out of the burn barrel by the tail and shoot them. He was kind of a tough old fart, bless him.