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We've had a terrible skunk problem here for the last couple years. 3 neighbors and I have been responsible for getting rid of 25 of them. Two of the neighbors have shot them (.22 pistol and 12ga) and so far without attracting police attention. The rest we trapped. Our town will euthanize them since our county has a history of rabies in skunks. We can call animal control the first thing in the morning, when we discover that we've had a successful night with the trap. They are here within a couple of hours afterward. They have a pretty nice setup with a syringe on the end of a stick but I doubt that the rest of us could get the "blue juice" to go in it.

A trick is to put the trap behind a cardboard barricade about 3 feet high. That way, they cannot see someone approaching. Their eyesight isn't that good anyway. We haven't had anyone sprayed, at least not yet. I cut extra holes in the wire in the top of the trap so that the animal control folks can get their pole into the cage. I suspect that you can do the same with a gun barrel though once they are in the trap, they are pretty active.

I saw a neat video where a guy built a cardboard case that fit right down over the top of the trap. He loaded it into the back of a pickup. I'm not sure I'd be that brave.