Neighborhood Skunks

[peytoncreekhunter]

Well I thought I had my skunk because I saw him on camera at 3:11 a.m. and when I checked the Trap it 5:15 this morning the door was closed. I got my can of starter fluid and sprayed the whole can inside the trap enclosed in the garbage bag but what I found was an opossum. And he was still alive I had to shoot him in the head with my 22. I don't know if I didn't give him long enough to expire from the starter fluid or if it just doesn't work.

 

[Lt.Dan]

Well I thought I had my skunk because I saw him on camera at 3:11 a.m. and when I checked the Trap it 5:15 this morning the door was closed. I got my can of starter fluid and sprayed the whole can inside the trap enclosed in the garbage bag but what I found was an opossum. And he was still alive I had to shoot him in the head with my 22. I don't know if I didn't give him long enough to expire from the starter fluid or if it just doesn't work.

I would have just set the oposum free. They are ugly looking but they do a good job of cleaning up the land by eating ticks, carrion etc. My dogs are always catching the ones that wander into my fenced-in yard. Those that survive I set release over the fence. But I guess you did right, it may have had died a slow a death from the starter fluid.

 

[jlanecr500]

Caught one a couple weeks ago with ripe Cantaloupe .

 

[peytoncreekhunter]

I would have just set the oposum free. They are ugly looking but they do a good job of cleaning up the land by eating ticks, carrion etc. My dogs are always catching the ones that wander into my fenced-in yard. Those that survive I set release over the fence. But I guess you did right, it may have had died a slow a death from the starter fluid.

Yeah if I had known it was an opposum I would of let it go.

 

['borohunter]

Well, just like when you take you car to the mechanic because it's doing something and it won't do it for the mechanic... I've set the trap out for 2 nights and the skunk hasn't showed...lol

Maybe he got ironed out by a car!

So you're saying you got skunked

 

[DaveTN]

So…I take the trash down to the curb Sunday night and I'm headed back up the driveway when I see something out of the corner of my eye. It's a skunk that goes under the wife's car at the edge of the driveway. I walk all the way to the other side of the yard and go through the gate on that side.

The wife says, why didn't you just walk past it??

 

[BPhunter]

I left out the other morning and one was across the road in front of my neighbors house. Told him later I thought about shooting but didn't want to wake them. He said "shoot it…I'll go back to sleep".

Was it BCB?