The skunk comes by quite often and cleans out my coon feeder. So I made the spout 30 mm longer hopefully that stops it. However today the skunk came by and got some food out but I don't think he cleaned it out. Hard for it to reach that far down. I refrain from shooting it because I don't want to stink up my backyard if I don't make a good shot or just unlucky.
I don't like these skunks either
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Head shot , heart shot ,,they will spray. They are not as bad as coons but once food source is found they will repeat.
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Eliminate the feeder.
From personal experience, the skunk will not leave until the food source is eliminated. You'll have to kill it. More skunks will follow if the feeder is still there.
From personal experience, the skunk will not leave until the food source is eliminated. You'll have to kill it. More skunks will follow if the feeder is still there.
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I have shot them in the past. Twice it smelled up the backyard. Once it was so bad neighbors over 200' away at 2am start looking out the window wondering where the smell is coming from. My wife was so pissed she was mad for more then a week! I don't want to risk a sink bomb. Shooting it is the easy part. Ensuring 100% that is doesn't spray is the hard part. Even if I get luckly going for a heart/lung shot, I would have to search around the bushes trying to find the body before it decays and stinks up the neighborhood.
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Then you only have one option: Eliminate their food source.
Do I get it right that you're feeding raccoons? That's another potential issue, but your choice. Hope it works out for you.
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I just checked the coon feeder the skunk ate about 1/2 the food. I will add another inch to the spout that should stop the skunks from eating, but still allow the coons to get to eat the main course, after which I will give them their final dessert of Pb!
That's why I don't recommend coon cuffs unless you want to deal with a skunk stuck in one.
That's why I don't recommend coon cuffs unless you want to deal with a skunk stuck in one.
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If you must keep the food source there, then live catch it in a trap. Go out, cover with a blanket. Dont try to sneak up on it. Their eyesight isnt great, but their hearing is excellent. Just talk as you go up to it, gently put a blanket or towel over the live catch cage and relocate it. I've trapped quite a few in this way and have never had one spray.
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I'm beginning to wonder if all animals really want is an acknowledgement of their existence, if not to put them at ease, at least to keep them in the negotiation phase and not the nuclear one. The "don't tread on me" rattlesnake shake comes to mind (not the Gadsen flag, blessed be). I keep bees and if I make a happy buzzing noise when I play around their hive they don't sting me; they don't even bump me. Hmm...
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Perhaps...haha But with skunks it's simply a matter of logic. Their eyesight is poor. By talking to them, you arent startling them further when caged. But we've all heard the saying that 'music soothes the savage beast'. Perhaps there is something to that.
At least in my experience the trap/talk/cover relocate has been 100% opposed to shooting them, which has also been 100% for me, but 100% of the time with them spraying.
In any case, I think the only singing I would do if ever faced with a grizzly bear would be the chorus of me shtting myself!
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So I can eliminate them. They cause a lot of property damage and swim and $hit in my pool!
Now I planting a vegtable garden have to keep critters in check.
Therefore I'm proactive.
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OP I was very worried reading this post that you were heading to get the Link you just posted until I saw you are trying to eliminate them..
honestly I sure hope it works for you..I always just let be and did what I could to keep critters out of my food .. be it fencing and if necessary electric, dogs, and well I used to use a food grade hot wax on a lot of my garden, would even keep the grasshopper from eating it, but I can't find it anymore..
back to coon's.. they are awful, monsters that sound horrible when mad and even the cuteness otherwise is not cute when they get your dog..I used to have a anitolian shepherd and nothing messed with it normally, and if it did, it didn't survive.. that was many years ago.. later on the coons kept coming in at night and attacking my working dogs..did 88 head of feeder cows every winter..boarder Collie and blue heeler .. so I started shooting them and I even had one come and attack me when I was getting a armload of firewood during broad daylight.. mostly used 22 LR but even used 410 one night at very close range, took 3 shots.. something one shot with 22lr and others maybe 3.. and one took 3 rounds of 38 special at 15 ft.. at night it's very hard to get a perfect shot holding the flashlight and gun.. and they can be tough..
I hate having to kill anything..
Mark
honestly I sure hope it works for you..I always just let be and did what I could to keep critters out of my food .. be it fencing and if necessary electric, dogs, and well I used to use a food grade hot wax on a lot of my garden, would even keep the grasshopper from eating it, but I can't find it anymore..
back to coon's.. they are awful, monsters that sound horrible when mad and even the cuteness otherwise is not cute when they get your dog..I used to have a anitolian shepherd and nothing messed with it normally, and if it did, it didn't survive.. that was many years ago.. later on the coons kept coming in at night and attacking my working dogs..did 88 head of feeder cows every winter..boarder Collie and blue heeler .. so I started shooting them and I even had one come and attack me when I was getting a armload of firewood during broad daylight.. mostly used 22 LR but even used 410 one night at very close range, took 3 shots.. something one shot with 22lr and others maybe 3.. and one took 3 rounds of 38 special at 15 ft.. at night it's very hard to get a perfect shot holding the flashlight and gun.. and they can be tough..
I hate having to kill anything..
Mark
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you think that's bad, we had a half dozen elk on the hill, neighbor decided that he only wanted to be the hunter and quit allowing his friends to hunt.. plus f&g extremely limited hunting.. became a huge problem.. when we had to quit farming..80+ elk . tear the fence down and let out the cows every night.. I even tried not having cows and leaving the 16 ft gate open right where they crossed.. nope go through the fence right beside the gate..
we had a hazing permit every year.. got back into PCP airguns because they got to where they would just look at you firing blanks 30 ft away and laugh at you.. very adjustable power air gun and put a bree on their rump..
they literally are half the first cutting hay crop and totally the best second cutting..
got totally not feasible..
Mark
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sounds like you risked being single.. over a stinking skunk..I sure detest them.. have only seen one here, dog killed it and the dog was skunked.. probably figured I'm already stinky so I might as well get even..
I just wish they would either keep the stink in and stay away or just stay away and not exist.
you guys shooting them are brave, it's what I would do from a distance if I saw them.. and those of you who trap?? yes you are beyond brave.. fearless.. bold heroes
Mark
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