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Removing Skunks
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09/22/15 10:46 PM
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Anyone ever remove skunks at night? Got a call about 9 pm from the customer saying there was a skunk in the trap. It was dark, I know skunk are more active at night, so I wanted to wait until the sun was up.
To Old
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/23/15 05:42 AM
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Just got up and a customer sent me a picture over night of a skunk eating out of the cats dish. Had a trap there for a week and they never seen it, pulled it two days ago. Argh! I hate doin skunks, they are so random
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/23/15 09:09 PM
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Just got up and a customer sent me a picture over night of a skunk eating out of the cats dish. Had a trap there for a week and they never seen it, pulled it two days ago. Argh! I hate doin skunks, they are so random That's aggravating but I think 'random' isn't the right way to look at it. If it take a week and a half for the animal to return we're probably dealing with a male. It's just making the rounds of all the pet food bowls and habitual dens it knows of. They are fairly predictable. The females are even more predictable because they don't range far. They are the ones that the customer sees every night like clockwork. If they passed by once, they'll be back, unless something else gets them first.
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/24/15 07:53 AM
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I am jeolous of you guys getting all the skunk calls- LOL. I love em but just don't get the calls here---yet!
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/24/15 12:20 PM
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mequon, wisconsin
Paul Winkelmann
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Hey, thanks to my first call this morning I can actually participate in this discussion. A skunk wandering around very slowly in a
backyard. Over the years I have taken skunks with every disease known to man but this was different. This skunk had clear eyes, a
beautiful clean coat without a single dirt smudge on it. She was nice and fat and didn't seem to have a thing wrong with her. I
pulled out the deadly bottle of chlo..... and nailed her right in the kisser at about three feet. ( There was a row of short
arborvitae separating us ) She never moved! I waited until she got dizzy and then held the five gallon pail in front and watched her
walk in. What do you guys think? Maybe some fast acting poison that she got into? She had her tail up but never swapped ends and
try to spray me. Always kept looking me right in the eye. ( I'd like to think it's because I'm the handsomest ADC guy she's ever
seen, but I know better )
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Re: Removing Skunks
[Re: Paul Winkelmann]
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09/24/15 04:08 PM
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Reed City, Michigan
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Hey, thanks to my first call this morning I can actually participate in this discussion. A skunk wandering around very slowly in a
backyard. Over the years I have taken skunks with every disease known to man but this was different. This skunk had clear eyes, a
beautiful clean coat without a single dirt smudge on it. She was nice and fat and didn't seem to have a thing wrong with her. I
pulled out the deadly bottle of chlo..... and nailed her right in the kisser at about three feet. ( There was a row of short
arborvitae separating us ) She never moved! I waited until she got dizzy and then held the five gallon pail in front and watched her
walk in. What do you guys think? Maybe some fast acting poison that she got into? She had her tail up but never swapped ends and
try to spray me. Always kept looking me right in the eye. ( I'd like to think it's because I'm the handsomest ADC guy she's ever
seen, but I know better ) Love is blind ?
Last edited by Pepe Le Pew; 09/24/15 04:09 PM.
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/24/15 07:39 PM
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Hey Jonsie, never thought about the shadows. They seem to be pretty edgy at night, nervousness that can produce an "accident." Judy can tell what I caught. Hot sun and rain in the day aren'e great either. Seems to be best to keep them in the shade, dry out of the rain and pick them up in the morning if possible. I think I have 4 "waiting" for me now, hard to tell as clients don't get close, just say "the doors are down." Sometimes its a possum. When I go after a skunk I put the trap in a black contractor's bag. If the bottom of the bag has been torn out I know it's a skunk. If not, the first thought is opossum.
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/24/15 08:34 PM
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This morning I went to pick up trap I had for a skunk, there was one in one trap and another in the other trap but there was two young skunks digging under the one trap. I removed the one skunk then stopped by the house and got two more shorter double door traps. I had a cover over the trap with the skunk inside. I put the two shorter trap beside the trap that had the skunk inside. Just before dark I went to the location and removed the cover and moved the two shorter trap tight to the other trap. Hoping the young skunks will be looking for mom tonight.
Time will tell.
I will let you know tomorrow.
To Old
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Re: Removing Skunks
[Re: Paul Winkelmann]
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09/25/15 07:37 AM
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Hey, thanks to my first call this morning I can actually participate in this discussion. A skunk wandering around very slowly in a
backyard. Over the years I have taken skunks with every disease known to man but this was different. This skunk had clear eyes, a
beautiful clean coat without a single dirt smudge on it. She was nice and fat and didn't seem to have a thing wrong with her. I
pulled out the deadly bottle of chlo..... and nailed her right in the kisser at about three feet. ( There was a row of short
arborvitae separating us ) She never moved! I waited until she got dizzy and then held the five gallon pail in front and watched her
walk in. What do you guys think? Maybe some fast acting poison that she got into? She had her tail up but never swapped ends and
try to spray me. Always kept looking me right in the eye. ( I'd like to think it's because I'm the handsomest ADC guy she's ever
seen, but I know better ) Paul for a period of about 5 years every skunk or coon I came up on like you described was rabid. also there was the ones that saw me from 30 yards out and ran towards me LOL that was easier to figure out.
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Re: Removing Skunks
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09/25/15 01:03 PM
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Follow up on the baby skunks. Putting a trap on both sides of the trap that had mom in it worked like a charm. Thing went very smooth. It pays to read the post on this forum, lots of good information.
To Old
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