Skunk problem

[dunng]

Originally Posted by VTDragon

Skunks have been tearing up my yard digging for grubs. I know the long term solution is to treat the lawn to kill the grubs and I plan on doing that. In the meantime I wanted to get rid of the skunks but didn't know how. A friend suggested that I bait a hav-a-hart trap with peanut butter on bread and then when the skunk was caught, cover the trap with a blanket to avoid getting sprayed and submerge the whole thing in a trash can full of water thus drowning the skunk. Sounded simple.

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Just wanted to point these two fragments out...

[VTDragon]

hav-a-hart trap with peanut butter on bread and then when the skunk was caught, cover the trap with a blanket to avoid getting sprayed and submerge the whole thing in a trash can full of water thus drowning the skunk

Originally Posted by dunng

Just wanted to point these two fragments out...

I used the non-lethal trap in case a neighbors kitty got caught. I have no qualms about killing a skunk