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We trap them in live traps covered with a tarp with only the entrnce to the tarp not covered and then when we catch one we pull the arp over the entrance so its dark inside and they get swimming lessons in the pond. Sorry Dutchie, I'll send them to you if you want but they are a menace here and its not a matter of just living with them. The burrow under houses, trailers, get into out buildings, attack poultry, spray dogs and everywhere they go they leave a nice scent. Some places I have lived skunks were a rare site and kind of cool to see, here they are very destructive.

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DH shoots them with a .22 through the lungs. In the head they'll spray. He traps quite a bit and we have not purchased the long pole with the syringe and shooting it through both lungs seems to be the best way.

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Where there's food there's going to be unwanted visitors and it doesn't matter how immaculate your barn is. They will come and visit. I've had the food in metal garbage cans, the chickens in a pen and eggs collected twice a day. I still go out in the barn about once a month and see an unwanted guest in the barn. Last time it was a racoon scurrying away from the garbage cans. I guess he was looking to see if I really know how to put the lids on or not. I could also see where he was trying to get into my coop. All he needed was to be successful once and I'd have a major mess on my hands.

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I had a friend that used to do rabies test on skunks. He need a lot of skunks for for the test. I went with him one night to get some more skunks for him to test. What he did was to break their back with a baseball bat and then kill them those that survived in the most humane way he could. If you break their back they can't spray. I know that you will say that is barbaric but that is the only way he could kill them without getting sprayed and have the brain to test. Most of the time the bat would kill them.

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Because they're disease-carrying vermin, and I prefer to not have to have a dog or other livestock put down because I chose to "live in harmony" with them.

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It's pretty difficult to secure a horse stall. We're going to get rid of the chickens because we they are so expensive to keep. Even without the chickens we cannot have skunks in the barn. They will come. We've got our feed in plastic. I cannot have the skunks killing the cats. We need them to keep down the mice. We've got to have skunk-free hay.

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Shoot it in the heart. Do not! And i mean do not shoot it in the head. It will release

Don't let your dog go charging up to it. That's what happened when Mom trapped a skunk in her barn. The dog got to it first.

Traps around here will now have a very long rope attached. It's funny that we've caught critters without bait. At least our cats are smart enough to stay out of unbaited traps. We placed the traps where we thought they were entering. I guess we were correct.

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I and the folks that work for me have caught literaly hundreds of skunks in livetraps. Us a piece of tarp or cloth to gently cover the trap once the skunk in inside. Then just pick the trap up, put it in a pickup or carry it away from buildings. Uncover the door of the trap and lift it, and the skunk will mosey on out. None of us has ever been sprayed. If it is to be killed, shoot it after it is out of the trap. But there is no absolute 100% guarentee that they wont spray when shot, though hed shot with a 22 works most of the time.

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Agreed but, realistically, I have yet to see a dog, however well trained, that is able to resist rushing a skunk.

There seems to be some kind of blood feud in existence with most of them.

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