Damn skunk!
 

Last night and seems every night now for the past week, a skunk has been around the house here. It sprays every night and is so bad we have to get up in the night and close the windows. I have not seen it, or the problem would be solved already. So how DO you get rid of the little bastard? My dogs are gonna get sprayed one night I know it. We are surrounded by woods so I know he is out there I just don't know where.

Get a trap--and the kind of trap that "solves the problem", not just allows you to transport it.

Oh he's not going anywhere but skunk heaven!

trap it. throw a cheap blanket or moving tarp over the trap when he is in it. he cant spray without a target.

then handle at your own discretion.

Skunks hate the smell of ammonia.

skunks hate my RWS!

What is it around your house that the critter is interested in?

May want to figure that out as well so you don't attract new visitors.

Compost, garbage, insect nests etc...

Well I'm not sure. No garbage around. No compost pile. Who knows what insect nests could be out there as I back up to about 100 acres of woods and a golf course. Maybe my garden, I don't know. I suspect it has taken over the ground hog burrow now that the dogs have run him off. I'm gonna spread some flour around the entrance today to see if there is any traffic. I can't use a leg trap because of the dogs.

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.

Hmmmm cat food as bait. That could work. That sounds like a plan that could work. Getting him away from the house is an important step.

Why's the lil' ba_s_tard spraying around your house? I thought they did that in self defense? Could it be skunk incontinence? Depends? :)

I don't know. I just know EVER night it does it. If you walk outside it makes you tear up. It woke my wife up in the middle of the night and she closed the bedroom window. It still stunk in the morning out there.

Once a skunk sprays it tends to linger on them just like everything else. Have you tried liberal application of any of the commercially available predator scents? Most of the hardware stores around here carry the stuff.

Just the scent of two big Airedales ain't enough?

Skunks don't do much harm unless cornered. We had one living under the front porch last year, it'd run when he saw me.

Raccoons on the other hand are a plague on most other wildlife. Buggers are emptying out the bird feeder every night and digging up whole plants.

Rabbits are the worst, especially when present in plague proportions.

i had one local to me. i researched it. they spray when they have set up a home.

trap it.

It's either someone's pet or it does not like the fact that you are practicing "Big Bottom" in the middle of the night.;)

If ya shoot em in the head with a rifle not a shotgun they don't release their scent stuff. Now it has to be a one shot kill mind you.

I bet that comes from someone with experience in shooting skunks in the head.