No way! I'm not grabbing that thing. My dog is a Dalmatian. When faced with a skunk, she will just go after it and get sprayed. The tomato juice bath is something she has experienced, as have I. Great story though!
We do not have animal control in our county. When I was building my pole barn I found a bat. I was a tad concerned about this bat because not only was it not with the other bats in the big barn, it was on the wall and in the sunlight. Very carefully, I got the bat into a coffee can and went to call animal control or the health department or whoever I thought could test this bat for rabies. Nothing like this in the phone book. Eventually I called the sheriff to see if they knew who I should call or where I should take it. Must have been a slow day for them because next thing I knew, I had 4 sheriff's cars in my driveway. The neighbors all freaked out and thought my ex-husband had killed me or something. To this day I don't know what they did with that bat. They wanted to shoot it and throw it in a ditch, but I thought that was a bad idea. At least rabid bats don't attack people unless the people grab them. If something else like a dog or possum ate that bat, then I thought there was a possibility that it could get rabies and then we'd have an animal that was dangerous to humans or livestock running around with rabies. The point is, once the skunk is trapped, I'm not sure what I will do with it. If there is some way to trap it so it can't spray I would at least be willing to drive it a few miles away and attempt to free it. A couple years ago after the fields were harvested I had a young "teenage" skunk coming to my porch to eat cat food. At first I was pretty freaked out about it, but as a time went on, the skunk realized I was the food provider and seemed to have no fear of me. I would walk past it, reasonably assured I wouldn't be sprayed. After about 6 weeks it went back to wherever it came from and there were no incidents. The one hanging out in my corncrib has been spraying though. I must have scared it with the tractor yesterday as I was mowing because that was a pretty horrid stench I smelled as I went by. Guess I'd better be careful in the mornings when I go out to feed the horses. The pole barn is right behind the corncrib.