I just avoid them. They hang around my yard at night, but they seem preoccupied with snuffling around for grubs. However, one night, I stepped out on my porch and one of them came jettin' into the flower bed 10 feet away. Never saw a skunk move that fast. I assume it was after a mouse, or maybe it caught wind of a predator. I just stood there nice & still for a minute until it left. Never saw a skunk move that fast.
We had good luck getting rid of raccoons with a product that simulated coyote urine. I understand that for skunks, you need fox urine. You can buy some here
-Frank
Forgot to mention that the predator urine is practically odorless to humans.
-Frank
I hear that they will not spray when confined in a trap. End of July, I accidentally trapped momma skunk when I thought raccoons were getting in my garbage cans. Trap was surrounded by 4 little skunks that would not leave momma. I managed to open trap at a distance with assistance of my pole pruner and did not get sprayed.
Besides getting sprayed, rabies is endemic around here so you need to be doubly careful.
Balls and Amonia.
I took a plastic coated table cloth, held it up against my body and walked slowly to the trap and placed it over the trap. Thay won't spray if they are covered. I then put a plastic garbage bag on the floor of the van, placed the trap there and brought the little guy for a long ride. I stopped at a field that had woods at the side and put thge trap on the ground then lifted the end of the table cloth up slowly and opened the trap door, little devil didn't want to come out so I lifted the trap end up and he went on his merry way into the woods. You need to do all things slowly and don't spook him and it WORKS !!!
Get a cat. You'll need a mutant, junkyard cat, but they do exist. My best "pestinator" cat used to frequently bring home dead skunks, racoons, and possum, in addition to rabbits and assorted rodents. She only got skunked once, so she was VERY good at sneaking up on them, apparently. She even went after wild turkeys, but only once. I guess they were bigger and less tempting up close. Even she didn't mess with the woodchuck, though.
My worst mouser chased deer, although he was more dog than cat. He never did get one, of course, but they actually ran from him, lord knows why!
put a sign up says no skunks allowed.
Funny (now) skunk-trapping story: Our mutual landlord trapped 22 (!!) skunks from under my neighbor's back porch, then closed up the access hole with hardware cloth. Several days later, the neighbor walked into her kitchen to discover a skunk sitting in the middle of floor eating from her dog's box of Milk Bones. It seems one skunk had been inadvertently left under the porch and, in desperation, had gnawed its way up through the kitchen floor. I asked her what she did, and she said first she ran upstairs to get the dog so it wouldn't startle the skunk. Then, dog in hand, she crept out the front door around to the back, carefully opened that door, and waited for the skunk to leave. As she said, "It wasn't as if I could shoo it with a broom!"
Jo Ann
I might not have foreseen this either. I don't think a net bag is good though because I think the holes are too big. The moth balls get smaller as time goes on. Maybe socks would be better. It will slow the naphtha from getting out, but it will still get out a day later.
I used to have some metal cans with hooks to hang them in the closet. I think the holes were only one or 2 mm, and thats when there would have been no problem removing the can. I'd use socks.
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