weedsportpete
Silver Member
No skunks yet this year, but the last five years we've had them around the house, especially at the bird feeder, at night. And two years ago, we had a family of them behind the plywood kick boards in the riding arena. It caused quite a commotion when the babies waddled out into the sand while a boarder was riding her horse.
But I just put out the live-capture trap with canned cat food and I'll get them caught. I leave them caged all night, and in the early morning hours just before dawn, I walk out with a blanket and throw it on top of the cage. The critter hardly moves, but you can see where it has torn up the ground underneath the trap.
The blanket covers all sides, and I grope for the trap handle on top and grab it, through the blanket (no hole in the blanket) and pick up the trap and put it in the bed of the pickup. I drive it across the river bridge and set the trap out in the woods a little ways and use a stick to prop the door open. Then I get in the truck and wait and in about a minute or two it comes waddling out and moves pretty much in a straight line out of the cage away from me and the truck. I pick up the cage and head home. I've done this about six or seven times and its always the same, and there's no smell (KOW).
I don't want to kill anything unless I've got a good reason to, like woodchucks.
Pete
But I just put out the live-capture trap with canned cat food and I'll get them caught. I leave them caged all night, and in the early morning hours just before dawn, I walk out with a blanket and throw it on top of the cage. The critter hardly moves, but you can see where it has torn up the ground underneath the trap.
The blanket covers all sides, and I grope for the trap handle on top and grab it, through the blanket (no hole in the blanket) and pick up the trap and put it in the bed of the pickup. I drive it across the river bridge and set the trap out in the woods a little ways and use a stick to prop the door open. Then I get in the truck and wait and in about a minute or two it comes waddling out and moves pretty much in a straight line out of the cage away from me and the truck. I pick up the cage and head home. I've done this about six or seven times and its always the same, and there's no smell (KOW).
I don't want to kill anything unless I've got a good reason to, like woodchucks.
Pete