[Tim Hancock]

We get them on our back porch coming up to eat from our cat food bowls. Buy some cheap cat food and place it in a live trap at a safe distance from your house, or set a bowl of cat food out behind a sliding glass door that you can observe in the evenings while watching tv. I have shot a bunch of them over the years after looking out to see them eating the cat food. I go out the front door with a lighted shotgun and once in position, I have my wife tap on the sliding door to "slightly" scare the skunk to make him leave the porch area. When it enters the yard, I attempt to get the skunk running out into the yard, then "chase/coax" him towards the road. Once he crosses the road, I blast him in the @ss with 12 ga and often it will blast him into the ditch across the road where it and it's smell gets carried away. Whatever you do, do not shoot the little b@stards while they are close to the house.