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For a week they've been dueling out there day and night. I can't get the stench out of my house. Just when I think it's getting better, another stinky breeze finds its way into my home. My eyes burn. When I open my fridge, I smell skunk!
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dude......don't GO there.........

BTDT

You've heard of the famous "wall of sound".....skunk is the wall of stink.

sorry, you'll have to move

I assume you've done normal pest deterring things?
 
How about the skunks move? I'm not going to yield to ferrets!

I don't think there's anything I can do. The whole neighborhood has been stinky lately. I can't go out there and hunt down skunks. The stench is just in the air. It's everywhere! Ironically, I don't mind a little whiff of skunk on occasion. Reminds me of iHop coffee, but this is getting ridiculous.
 
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The stench is just in the air. It's everywhere!
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Wall Of Stink

In my home town it's cowsheet. You get used to it. Sorta smells like a macpatty on the grill or on a good day when they are spraying fields, well, it's a brown-green Wall of Sheet....but it's NOT a Wall Of Stink. That's reserved for your striped buddies.
 
If you can get your hands on some coyote, fox, or bobcat pee, that will do the trick.
I've heard that leaving some ammonia-soaked rags lying around the places the skunks pass by will help encourage them to go elsewhere.
You can always trap them and take them elsewhere, but that could get smelly.
Alternatively, you could behave like a Philistine and shoot them.

Or go shopping....

http://www.critter-repellent.com/skunk/how-to-get-rid-of-skunks.php?source=GoogleAW
 
Moribundman, if you're in the city then it sounds like you're dealing with a relatively confined area like a garden, a back yard or an alleyway. I have found that animals detest the smell of mothballs. Scatter some around and the pong should discourage them. I've done this many times to keep critters at bay. It's a humane way to handle them.
 
It's not just my immediate surroundings that stink. It's the whole lenght of the beach, a few miles, from Cliffhouse to the zoo.
 
moribundman,

I'm sure you're not the only one there who's being troubled by the stink.

Perhaps one could call the local vet or animal control to get some better tips or perhaps actual assistance with these guys. I think I saw on tv one time where they would use something like a Have-a-Heart trap and then after the catch, throw a blanket over the cage, and transport it to another area for release.

I remember when a dog of mine took a spray right in the face. The odar was so stong It smelled very different, with my nose tingling and I going into dry heaves. I'm still reminded of the whole affair when I'm around spagetti/tomato sauce for which we had on hand to try to help clean her (as the old story goes).

Good luck.
 
Owls. Great. I bet I need a pack of the biggest owls I can find. Don't they hoot all the time? And will the owls get along with the seagulls? So many questions, so few answers.
 
I think I saw on tv one time where they would use something like a Have-a-Heart trap and then after the catch, throw a blanket over the cage, and transport it to another area for release.


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We live outside the city limits and have many skunks or at times we have had many skunks.We have tried the mothball thing and it did not work for us. We have used a Have A Hart trap before. If you use a small trap you do not have to worry about being sprayed, if the skunk can not get his tail up, he can not spray. We would haul them a few miles away but it seams like them and their friends would show up the very next night.

Living in the country we can shoot them but I can tell you a 12 gauge does not work well. I would put a little cat food under a tree so I could see with the yard light and about 2:00 AM wake up to find them eating at shoot one in the head with a 22 fifle, just be sure to get them in the head or they will lay there and ooze.One year I got 21 of them. For the last couple of years it has been the neighbors turn.

If we lived in town the city will bring a trap and do it for us, so maybe you can get the city to do that for you.

Good luck
 
The skunks start mating this time of the year. I have the wonderful task of removing their dead butts off the state highways of kansas. I still can't get over the smell after 5 years of shoveling the dead ones of the road. One cure I found is soaking two small pieces of paper towel in cologne and jamming them up my nose!
 
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And will the owls get along with the seagulls?
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My hope would be they would kill the seagulls too, but I think maybe the seagulls are out in daytime and the owls hunt at night when the skunks are active. So probably no effect on gulls.

Maybe call your county agricultural extension agent for advice. These folks are with the state universities and work locally to give horticultural advice in the city and presumably agricultural advice in the country. I have dealt with them on tree problems, but I don't think skunk control is outside their scope.
 
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I think I saw on tv one time where they would use something like a Have-a-Heart trap and then after the catch, throw a blanket over the cage, and transport it to another area for release.
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Oh no, I must be living in the release area!
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If I recall correctly, owls prey upon skunks and are unaffected by the spray for whatever reason. So then the question is, how to get several big owls to live by your house?
 
You've got skunks, we've got racoons: EVERYWHERE. Every night they are in my back yard. Well, about 2 months ago my dog "got ahold" of one, flung it around, and then treed it. Didn't see those little bastards for about, well, 2 months. I guess they forgot about my dog and now are back. It was funny the first night we started seeing them; heard all kinds of ruckuss in the yard, I opened the backdoor to my deck, and 3 large racoons are hangin from the bird feeder. The thing was bending over like 90 degrees, it was freakin hilarious, and there was a coule more adults and a few babies. Freakin entire family of the buggers.
 
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