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[kb]

Jamestown R.I. is the skunk capital of the world they are everywhere including under my front porch. I know if I take  12 gauge and blast them that may work but it may also cause a odor problem. On the serious side. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?  Need you're help. Thanks kb

[spydglide]

Do not have a remedy.  What are the benefits of having 'em around?  any plus or all negatives?  spyder

[kb]

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[Twolanerider]

Jamestown R.I. is the skunk capital of the world they are everywhere including under my front porch. I know if I take  12 gauge and blast them that may work but it may also cause a odor problem. On the serious side. Does anyone know how to get rid of them?  Need you're help. Thanks kb

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[Rooster]

Try bright light and loud music. And mothballs. Good luck

[TheVgirl]

   And I thought I had problems with ground hogs and chipmunks!  UGH!  I'll check with the wildlife guy at Berry College - the largest college campus by land size in the world - or the head of the Science department at Shorter.  He's also a taxidermist so he might know.  Berry has lots of wildlife problems.  We discussed skunks at bike night a few weeks ago because I ran over a dead (or dying) one on my way back from Knoxville when I went to the Easy Rider show.  It was cold and late when I got home and had completely forgot about it.  I washed the bike and everything came off the fairing and the rest of the bike with no problem.  There are spots still on the heat shields on the back of the exhaust (under the saddle bags) that I cannot completely get rid of.  With each polish, it gets a little better and no one else really notices it because it's shadowed by the bags but it irritates me.  When the subject came up, one of the guys there works for the Physical Plant at Berry and we talked about skunks and how bad they are in some areas.  He said they are just about required to trap all nuisance animals and relocate them to prevent animal rights activists from forming  a lynch mob.  Then as the subject went on to other nuisance animals/rodents like ground hogs, moles, chipmunks, etc, he told me about a specialist that had to come out for one of the historic homes on campus.  I don't think the guy had to resort to this there, but he said the guy told him that skunks and chipmunks are the most finicky eaters and that if you want to terminate them that regular rat poison and other measures won't work unless you put it in Almond Butter.  I'd be afraid they'd go under your porch and die and stink up everything though.  Know anybody that has any blood hounds or whatever the breed is that is often used for raccoon and possum hunting?  Or is that only a backwood/redneck sport from the hills in Tennessee and NC?

[hard10]

1) Roscoe ~ My Remmington 12 ga. It works wonders on rodents.

2) Take V's advice and get yourself a good hunting dog. Here in South Kackalackie we use Beagles. They'll get 'em every time.

3) Get yourself a Hav-A-Heart trap. Peanut butter works well as bait. Catch the thing & head over to the Mother-in-laws house.

[bogman]

There must be a rodent audio device available that works as a repellent, there is one that works for rats/mice, check it out, inaudible to humans 

[Vixen]

Here's how we do it in Texas!

 First buy the 15 yr old boy a dirt bike for his birthday and have him ride it around the yard about 1,000 times, thus irritating every ground animal within 100 yrds.    

Then conveniently have a water leak at the hose bibb on the garage leak water under the slab for about 5 days. 

Go out in the cool of the evening to watch the kid zoom round and round the yard on the bike and sit right by the garage door where you park the bikes, never noticing the hole under the porch where the skunks have been living for who knows how long.  As water slowly fills up their home they WILL come out, probably, as in my case, while you are sitting there!     It's best to have lots of neighbors around admiring the new bike while the "presence of vermin" is noticed.  Lots of yelling and running will commence.  However, the kid will NOT cease riding RIGHT by the skunks in order to "see what they'll do!      The skunks will not appreciate the new bike as much as the kid.   

Word will spread quickly around the 'hood that you have new pets and all will come see.  Makes for a great party!!

Luckily only the babies were left, the momma took off early, we never saw her.  So maybe more adventures await!

Maybe you could flood them out like we did.





 

[TheVgirl]

When Vixen told me that story last night, I told her she had to come on here and post it!  Such a simple solution.  She did mention that Animal Control came out and left her cages to catch them with.   So all you got to do is get the cages, start running water, and make sure it's a weekday so it will be convenient for Animal Control to come pick them up!  I would make sure the cages are strategically placed where ass-end will be facing away from house just in case they decide to spray!!!!!

Vixen might rent you her kid for the project or PAY YOU to take him for a short while!

[moscooter]

 
Can't vouch for the effectiveness of Shake away for skunks,  but I got some for squirrel problems and it works on some and not others.  It seems to me the baby squirrels don't have a real clue to be afraid of the fox odor while some of the adults in fact do not want to be around it.