How Many Skunks Under The House

[jonp]

Wife heard some noise then a spray. Ugh! Searched around and found the entrance. After the wife nixed the plan of crawling under there with a 22 pistol or a bodygrip at the entrance I bought a live trap. Put a can of sardines in the end then put it against the opening. Couple of rocks to seal the sides and a towel over it to form a tunnel.

So far i've gotten 4. Probably there all winter happy as clams in the dry crawlspace as ive seen holes in the yard digging for grubs. All good till they started getting frisky with spring. The spray is a female not ready for attention.

[BLAHUT]

None under this house, but maybe a few under the other house, fighting with the racoons for rights.

[Winger Ed.]

Sounds like you won't be having too many visitors for awhile.

[pworley1]

When I was young a mama skunk raised a litter under our floor. We left them alone and they left us alone. Thankfully after she left they never came back.

[square butte]

I used to have a couple under the front porch - There's one hibernating under the shed behind the barn this winter. A couple of years ago, I took 42 out of the neighborhood. There's no end to em here

[BLAHUT]

Sounds like you won't be having too many visitors for awhile.

I like that idea......

[BLAHUT]

I used to have a couple under the front porch - There's one hibernating under the shed behind the barn this winter. A couple of years ago, I took 42 out of the neighborhood. There's no end to em here

When I ran sled dogs, that was Favrot food, right up there with cats, for them dogs... Just remember, if you are going to try and take one away from any one of the dogs, never and I say never, grab the skunk by the tail...

[Dekota56]

I haven’t had any,Skunks under the house. A ground hog,, a opossum or two. I hate when they get up under there and for some reason they can’t find there way back out and die under there…
then I have to climb under there an get them out.

[Hannibal]

Fellas .....

What in the world do your foundations look like? Decks/porches I can understand. But under the HOUSE?

[BLAHUT]

Fellas .....

What in the world do your foundations look like? Decks/porches I can understand. But under the HOUSE?

My other house sits on blocks with tin skirting. No foundation, no slab,

[racepres]

Moth Balls... Trust me...Critters hate 'em... Especially Skunks....

[GhostHawk]

I had a close encounter with a groundhog under my porch. Thankfully no skunks yet.

[CLAYPOOL]

I am still at 78. It's been 4 years or more since we have had one. THANK GOD ...There for a 10 or more years after i retired they just kept coming. Shot in trap with Mosley .40 Tarsus Tactical long slide.. Mounted light blinded them .. heads goes down .. Shoot threw the front shoulders to parallelize them... PLEASE wear hearing protection in pole barn. VERY loud ..

[Gewehr-Guy]

I voted 7 or more. I hired a neighbor to move an old wooden 12x28 foot grainery with his hay stack mover. When he backed under it, it was crawling with skunks, and they would not come out from under the building, instead hiding amongst the movers tires, not liking the bright daylight. Eventually we shot about a dozen of them, and when he drove away, several more escaped.

[Rattlesnake Charlie]

Can't stop laughing. Deal with a lot of skunks growing up on the farm. They are an adventure.

[Dave W.]

Growing up, my dad was a beekeeper. Skunks like to eat honey bees. We stored empty supers on a pallet in each bee yard, the pallets were set on 4 tires. They made for a perfect skunk home, one of the tires would catch water, so they could drink. Another tire would be dry, so they had a dry place to sleep and the bees provided a steady food source. When all the supers came off the pallet we would pick it up and shoot skunks. When a person was by themselves it was fun, you did not know if the skunk(s) was in the tire nearest you or further away. At most they were 6 feet away. I have been kicked out of school more than once, for smelling so bad. Ah, the good old days.

[rbuck351]

Nothing can get under my house but we do get skunks come through the yard at night. I got tired of waking up in the middle of the night from the stink so I came up with a plan. I set up a bait station about 40yds from the bedroom window. It's a wire basket hanging from a post with a string going to a cowbell under the bedroom window. When the cowbell clangs I use a light loaded 22KH with a 40gr boolit and a night vision scope to terminated the little stinkers. Then I get a shovel and transfer them to the field where I plant them the next day with the backhoe. It's almost fun dealing with skunks this way.

[alfadan]

I use a wireless driveway monitor from Horrible Freight pointed at a frequented area of the yard. Usually for armadillos at 3am but sometimes skunks when they get too spray-happy. Had one apparently get spooked by my AC unit kicking on right by the house. Wiped out the whole village after that.

[poppy42]

When I ran sled dogs, that was Favrot food, right up there with cats, for them dogs... Just remember, if you are going to try and take one away from any one of the dogs, never and I say never, grab the skunk by the tail...

Well I’ve picked up a lot of skunks and not gotten sprayed. Stand on your tiptoes and tighten up your calf muscles. That’s what the skunk ass to do in order to spray you. Basically contract the muscles in the back of his legs and up near his anus. If you can get him completely off the ground before he has a chance to spray they can’t spray you! Of course you certainly don’t wanna have one slip out of your hands or drop them accidentally! Lol. Oh I don’t believe that garbage about a bath and tomato juice because that don’t work! I can’t tell you how many cans of tomato juice I went through trying to get the stink off my beagle and me when she got a hold of a skunk in our tack room! If you gotta shoot them don’t shoot them in the head they immediately start convulsing and spray all over everything! You either got a separate the brain from the spinal column immediately or I had the best results by shooting them in the heart and walking away! Let them die and don’t disturb them. I’ve only been sprayed twice, once with the beagle, and the first time I dealt with one. I was young newly married and I made a rather stupid mistake in setting a leg hold trap underneath my house in the crawlspace! I don’t know which one is worse dealing with the stink from being sprayed or dealing with my wife for the next several weeks while the place aired out! Lol

[racepres]

Well I’ve picked up a lot of skunks and not gotten sprayed. Stand on your tiptoes and tighten up your calf muscles. That’s what the skunk ass to do in order to spray you. Basically contract the muscles in the back of his legs and up near his anus. If you can get him completely off the ground before he has a chance to spray they can’t spray you! Of course you certainly don’t wanna have one slip out of your hands or drop them accidentally! Lol. Oh I don’t believe that garbage about a bath and tomato juice because that don’t work! I can’t tell you how many cans of tomato juice I went through trying to get the stink off my beagle and me when she got a hold of a skunk in our tack room! If you gotta shoot them don’t shoot them in the head they immediately start convulsing and spray all over everything! You either got a separate the brain from the spinal column immediately or I had the best results by shooting them in the heart and walking away! Let them die and don’t disturb them. I’ve only been sprayed twice, once with the beagle, and the first time I dealt with one. I was young newly married and I made a rather stupid mistake in setting a leg hold trap underneath my house in the crawlspace! I don’t know which one is worse dealing with the stink from being sprayed or dealing with my wife for the next several weeks while the place aired out! Lol

And...since they will Not live where we put moth balls...they still search for a "spot" by the barn... I just shoot em in any old part of the body.. Yea they stink...Bad!!! But, My Bitter half likes Eagles...and Only Possum draw more Eagles than a Skunk...