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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 26, 2016 - 08:42am PT
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The Skunk is on the back burner for today, but traps have been set for three nights now with no results. He/she is living under my deck, taking over my backyard, and has stunk up my house. It's been there since Sunday. It laughs at me every time I spot it in the yard and then it runs back under the deck. My poor dogs hate me because I can't go back there and let them run around unattended.
Meanwhile my water heater is leaking and ready to blow, so I've got to deal with that first.
If anybody has any helpful skunk removal suggestions please let me know. I've read about plenty already and have listened to some doozies, but don't want to take a flamethrower to the little critter just yet. I know I'm gonna get an eyefull of trolls on this one.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 26, 2016 - 08:45am PT
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Hahahahaaaa!!! Great thread title!!
I'm sorry to laugh bro, but that's just hilarious.
It's that time of year here in the foothills. They're out trolling for bishes every night it seems.....
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 08:45am PT
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I'm surprised your dogs haven't dealt with the thing. I usually find out we've had a skunk when my dog smells like one nailed her. Then I find it dead in the back.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 08:51am PT
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My money is on her really getting yer goat when you find out she's had a litter of wee darlings.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 26, 2016 - 08:53am PT
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Try putting an open container of ammonia under the deck (or is it bleach????) Check on the Internet
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 26, 2016 - 08:54am PT
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I had mama skunk and babies under the house. My cat hung out with them, no problems.
I didn't want them there so I lit several cones of incense and put them under the house. The skunks moved on.
Was incense the cause? Can't say for sure.
Incense also seems to work on gophers.
Use this type. It's easier to place.
EDIT:
Don't forget to use a flame to light them!
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:05am PT
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Smoke.... the answer for skunk. Climbing anyone?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:20am PT
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My exterminator was here recently and we talked about skunks and coons. He won't even
deal with them any more, except for a really good customer, because the PC crowd has made
so many stoopid ordinances concerning them. He can't relocate them any longer - he has to
release them within a few blocks of where he caught them so what's the phukking point?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:28am PT
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I used to relocate trapped ground squirrels, too, until they made it illegal. I'd take them to the other side of The 10, and turn them loose in the yards of a couple vacant McMansions that won't sell.
Now, to be legal and everything, I have to humanely euthanize them.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:36am PT
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Just burn your house down it will get rid of them perfectly ......
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Jan 26, 2016 - 10:12am PT
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Put drano in a bowl of coca cola under the deck.
They love the taste.
Problem solved.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2016 - 12:18pm PT
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I'm confused...
do I drink the Drano Cola before or after I burn my house down?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 26, 2016 - 12:26pm PT
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Send me your skunk and I will personally smoke it to get rid of it for you.
It will never know what or who hit it.
Do not send roaches...I have plenty.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 26, 2016 - 12:50pm PT
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hey there say, bushman... there might be another thread here, is lots of info on the skunk type situations...
also, too, i will see what i can find, later...
can't you enclose the under-deck, or is that too much for finances, :(
many articles mention making your area around house, unpleasant for the skunk, and it will leave on its own...
best wishes, for solving this...
:)
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2679644&tn=20
will try to share links, later...
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 26, 2016 - 02:03pm PT
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no, no, no, you've got this all wrong. just smoke out with the skunk, don't drink Coca-cola or start any fires.
mothballs at yard entry points, regular and vigorous canine harassment (peroxide, baking soda + Dawn = gud), bricked-over burrows did the trick for me. you ain't no Penelope Pussycat, so don't keep bendin' over....just warsh that garlick-assszsssss off your doggies and get after it.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 26, 2016 - 03:40pm PT
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A friend of mine put a radio under her deck/house and blasted some rock music all night...The skunk went to the neighbors house .
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matisse
climber
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Jan 26, 2016 - 03:59pm PT
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I feel your pain. I had one in the crawlspace of my rental property. We gut skunked pretty bad and I had to move out for 3 weeks.
As others have said ammonia works.
I believe my landlord poured something absurd like 11 gallons under the house..but it worked!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 26, 2016 - 05:26pm PT
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Stupid skunks. They can be devious. If you stalk him right at sunset there's usually a specific place they like to exit from under the house. You can block any exits with plywood and try to force it into a trap.
I had a whole family of them move in under the palates of a temporary shed I erected for an art show one time. Kinda freaky having to walk over them in the daytime with their fur poking out of the slats. Fortunately they are groggy in the daytime and no one got sprayed, but they stunk up all my stock. I waited for them to exit out their hole in the back one night and boarded up the opening. Unfortunately they were smart enough to just wait outside the front door in the morning and raced in the minute I opened the door. Really freaky tearing the shed down with them still living in there at the end of the show.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jan 26, 2016 - 05:51pm PT
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Shoot it in the face.
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