rosebudrollers
56 posts
Feb 16, 2007
2:10 PM
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I now have my own little skunkie.He can not get into the loft so he shows his displeasure his way.I could trap him but do not desire the long lingering oder.Have found his den and offered him various treats which he eats.This creature has a cast iron stomach if you get my drift.Any ideas on something readly available that might do the trick. thanks Curtis
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spinner jim
54 posts
Feb 16, 2007
2:19 PM
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Curtis,get yourself a photograph of my mother in law,pin it to your loft and it will take one look and run like hell,never to be seen again lol, jim uk.
Last Edited by on Feb 16, 2007 2:20 PM
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Frankie
105 posts
Feb 16, 2007
2:19 PM
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I can tell you what you need to use if you email me around 8 tonight frank40@suddenlink.net Frankie
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bob
35 posts
Feb 16, 2007
2:29 PM
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Hi Curtis live trap him & then throw a blanket over the trap, you then can carry the trap with out being sprayed & gently put it in a rain barrel.You could also shoot with a 22cal. providing you know where the lung is, i shoot them all the time with no odour. Good luck Bob in ontario
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Flyin Hawaiian
4 posts
Feb 16, 2007
4:53 PM
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Hey Bob,
I have a story for you about just what your suggesting.My former residence had an old dairy across the street that was vacant for may years. The skunks made it thier permanent residence. A buyer purchased the ole dairy and decided to have it cleaned up for a sheep farm. During the clean up period the skunks wer on a mission to find anotherplace to call home thats when my pigeon loft looks inviting. I had a greeting room in which I called my Hacienda area where many a story was told. The skunks very deceptively moved in on me. One day I noticed Pepe and his order and didn't think anything of it. I also had a koi fish pond that was out the back decking of the loft and a tea house mote built over the koi pond. One night in the summer I was out thier admiring the fish when two skunk kittens came out to get a drink. Than is when I realized that I had a colony of skunks taking up residency under my 16 X 30 ft loft. The perfume was so bad at times I coouldn't hardly stand to feed my birds. I called up "the critter gitter" and asked him what coud be done. He said call the county and they will supply you with a live animal cage to which I did and yes they did. I asked how do I get the skunk out of the cage once I trap it. He told me what your suggesting take a shower curtain and slowly drape it over the cage. I said won't he or she spray me he said nope because thier naucternal and sleep during the day. So I trusted his judgement and started to walk up to the cage with this curtain and I look at the skunk in the cage and said to myself man this thing must sleep with his eyes open LOL! I didn't stir him much and gently layed the plastic curtain over the top of the cage. I thought hey this is pretty easy so I lifted the cage off the ground to put it in my pickup and no sooner did I lift the cage and Pepe was literally pissed off and I was pissed on with perfume. The sack of S#$T permeated through the 4.0 mil plastic curtain and I sware my nostril hairs left my nose LMAO!! I dropped the cage and ran. Few hours later I decide I'm gonna get a carbage can and fill it with water and ask my son if he can hold his breath long enough to pick it up and put it in the water filled carbage can. He says yeah dad I can. Im' reminiscing right now and can picture what happen to my son and I'm dieng over here laughing so hard but anyways he couldn't do it. So I call the critter gitter guy and he gives me a rundown on pricing and says if its a spotted skunk its 150.00 to trap if its a striped skunk its 75.00. He said he had to shave his mustach 60 times when trapping and relocating a spotted skunk thats why double the money to trap. O well just thought I would leave you with a short story but I suggest to take Brian Mc cormicks advice. O yeah I ridded myself of the skunk problem shortly thereafter I moved LOL!
Ivan
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rosebudrollers
57 posts
Feb 16, 2007
8:21 PM
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Thanks guys,All good advice and some LMAO.stuff.I have had experiance trapping and shooting them over the years.This time however I thought I might try some method to get the bastard to just go to forever sleep down in his little hidaway.Very neat and no big time stinky. Got to be a way. thanks Curtis
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Ballrollers
671 posts
Feb 16, 2007
8:32 PM
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Great story, Ivan. What a hoot! Reminds me of a story.....I had a younger brother who used to do a lot of trapping as a young teen and selling the pelts. Well, he caught a skunk one day and was determined he could skin it without piercing the scent glands. Well, he was wrong. He had to abandon the pelt midway and all he earned for his trouble was the privelige of sleeping in the basement for a month!! LMAO! He trapped and hunted all his life....Ol' Dan is no longer with us....a crazed buck deer in the rut gored him and took him out one October day....sure miss that ol' boy!
But he died doing what he loved.....Anyway, thanks for taking me back for a moment......
YITS,
Cliff
Last Edited by on Feb 16, 2007 8:33 PM
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rosebudrollers
59 posts
Feb 16, 2007
8:51 PM
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When I was 10 yrs old I had a mean old uncle that told me if you grabbed a skunk by his tail he could not spray.Well I found one in a cattle guard and laid on my belly and gave it a try.He lied. Curtis
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classicpony
110 posts
Feb 17, 2007
5:26 AM
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Rosebud,
Don't be a whimp, don't let NO skunk get the better of you! Let that skunk spray you down... twice, then go and beat your chest while your howling at the moon. That skunk will see this and run like hell to the next county not looking back to see if your following. No one will be wanting to mess with anyone like you. :)
Jim
@thebirdhouse
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