Skunks

[Full Throttle]

I have a house in the country that we don't get to very often. It's pier and beam and the skunks are terrible there. You walk in and it burns your eyes it smells so bad.

I cover up the holes they create and they just make new ones. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them.

[texan4ut]

I have heard moth balls keeps them away.

[Muskles]

Moth balls or sulfur. You can set live traps with sardines, but you have to dispatch them somehow!

[Outback]

We have the same problem. I plan to live trap with sardines and toss in some moth balls.

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[justintyme8303]

We live in city and back up to a green belt. we woke up around 1:30am to a strong skunk smell it seemed to be coming from outside but smelled like it was in the living room! This morning nothing to be found.

[flinger]

If you catch one in any trap try to shoot them in the spine, anywhere else they will spray.

[okrattler]

If you can use connibear traps that's what I suggest. I never have tried it because they're illegal here but from what I've heard a skunk won't spray when they get in one. Whether it's true or not I don't know. But it's worth a try. I just wouldn't leave it where anything you don't want getting in it can find it.

If not just bait them with cat or dog food and shoot them when they're out and about. Which is usually around dark thirty or there abouts.

[RS3]

Live box trap, canvas tarp, rope and a pond.

[tex4k]

It's gonna cost a little but you're going to have to install something they can't get through like concrete curbing or 1/2" hardware cloth. Get them fenced out, leave 1 point of entry/exit, then camp out until you get them caught or shot, then fenced the 1 access point. Chances are there's way more than 1. Last year I caught 1 trying to make a home under a unprotected addition on my house, caught 19 skunks over about 3 months. Stinking things travel in herds just like buffalo.

[Drycreek3189]

We had a couple under our cabin at the lease once. I stayed up until I saw them in the yard under the yard light and shotgunned them. Took two trips but it was worth it. We were lucky enough that after I stopped up the holes, none ever got in there again, but I looked all around the cabin almost every trip after that. We also killed every skunk we saw on the place.

[Abcdj]

I caught 7 in 8 nights in a live trap butted up to our pier and beam house where they were digging under it. The trap had a rope tied to it to drag it out in the pasture and shoot the skunks. I would go back after work dump the dead one out and repeat. I used a piece of bread with peanut butter on it for bait. The trap needs to be short and long so the skunk can't raise its tail to spray.

Your house. Buy rolls of chicken wire 12 inches wide. Lay it down right up next to your house. Stake it down with those grass barrier U shaped stakes. Your grass will grow through it in time. The skunks start digging right up close to the house. When they can't dig down they start backing up and when they get away from the house they stop digging and go somewhere else.

[dustoffer]

If you can use connibear traps that's what I suggest. I never have tried it because they're illegal here but from what I've heard a skunk won't spray when they get in one. Whether it's true or not I don't know. But it's worth a try. I just wouldn't leave it where anything you don't want getting in it can find it.

If not just bait them with cat or dog food and shoot them when they're out and about. Which is usually around dark thirty or there abouts.

Not true on not spraying in a Conibear, but saves you the need of killing them.

The live trap, tarp, and water, either tank, river, or 55-gal drum works for me.

[okrattler]

Not true on not spraying in a Conibear, but saves you the need of killing them.

The live trap, tarp, and water, either tank, river, or 55-gal drum works for me.

I see. Well that's good too though. Especially if it's at a place you're not at very often. Let the traps kill them,stink up the place and be done stinkin by the time you get back.

[Traildust]

I bet you have a lot of flys too

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

I've been battling this for a few months at my house we watched for them, hunted them like dogs I've shot two coming out of the house and trapped one in a live trap with sardines. Moth balls had no effect on ours only cure was a 50grain vmax at 3100fps.