Grub X

 

Skunk digging for grubs.

 

Michigan does not have hog nose skunks.
That is just a run of the mill Pepe Le Pue with a wide stripe.

 

Yep the stripes vary a lot.

 

Live trap where it can’t lift its tail then give him a bath.

 

 

Regular skunk. Cabin is southwest of you, off sucker creek. I've seen them there with that same mostly white color phase.

 

Try and treat your yard for grubs. We did, and the skunks stopped coming around. It was needed for our 3 dogs and no fencing. I couldn’t keep trying to shoot all of them. They just kept coming until we treated, and my one dog loved their spicy flavor. So I guess she’s bummed she doesn’t get angry midnight baths from us anymore. Good luck

 

Yep going to start putting grub ex down, starting next weekend hopefully. Decided shooting is not going to stop more from coming. It is a lot of lawn and will be expensive and take some time for sure. Been there 40 years this is first time problem where it is getting bad.

 

Besides... shooting it would probably cause a big stink!

 

Looks like a possum licking ticks off its fur.

 

You dont even have a 22 at the cabin??

 

Had one also in my open field behind camp, shot him about 100yd+ with the 22,white skunk didn’t smell thank god

 

Agricultural Lime is a lot cheaper than GrubEx, and will probably work at least as well, at this time of year. GrubEx works best earlier in the summer when grubs are feeding most heavily. Lime works well all the time. And you literally can't put too much lime on your yard, unless you just dump piles of it.

 

How do you put it on ? By hand? Spreader ?

 

.22 Shoot in the head, they stink. Shoot em in the ribs, they stink. Shoot em in theass and they stink. No good shooting solutions.

 

But that is the last time they will stink.

 

Will not shoot it, told by many not a good idea, there are probably more than one anyway. Have to get the lime or grubex next spring. And screw the live trap advice my neighbor gave me, can only see problems with that LOL. thanks for the advice everyone

 

Actually the live trap can work quite well. Trap it. Cover it. Dunk it in the lake.

 

I caught a Skunk in a live trap, trying to catch a marauding Raccoon that kept taking my suet feeder down. I carefully walked up to the trap, holding an old towel wide open between, to avoid getting sprayed. The Skunk did spray, but I didn't catch any. I was able to wrap the trap in the towel, pick it up, and carry it to our dock, where I dropped it into the water. Figured the Skunk would spray underwater, and it would foul our beach, but that didn't happen. I was sad to bury him, and he was pretty cute. But I wasn't about to do a live release of a Skunk.

 

I have drown skunks in live traps into the lake, and to My suprise, they do spray underwater and stunk up the nieghborhood!

 

A buddy that is a trapper has a tool for skunks that works great. Basically it is a syringe on the end of a stick that he uses to pump air into the heart. No stink. I haven't seen it in action, but I trust him.

 

I could not drown anything on purpose.

 

Shoot him if you can. GrubX is terrible stuff. Kills everything.

 

Step 1 live trap.

Step 2 cover with old blanket.

Step 3 take to lumbermans place

Step 4 carefully open live trap and let it out

Step 5 shoot it

Step 6 get outta there it's gonna reek!

 

A couple bags of lime will do 15000 sq ft. I recommend multiple applications, a couple/few weeks apart. And it should rain between the applications.

 

I agree with sureshot006 ,I just got rid of one today. Cam back from salmon fishing in Manistee for a week and in the live trap was Mr. skunk. So I got me a blanket put it over the trap and gently put him in the back of the pick up drove a couple miles down a two track and gently opened the door pulled the blanket off and he walked out ,took a look back at me and off he went to his new home, second one this year. The live trap is for a ground hog I been trying to get, had some mush melon in for bait.

 

Once upon a time I sat down in a comfy crossroads bar in a little village up near The Bridge. A woman sat down next to me and set her purse on the bar, clearly made from a Skunk pelt. What a striking object that was. “Made it myself,” she said. What a striking conversation that was. “There’s tricks to know to skin them, but it’s not impossible,” she said.

 

You must have to skin the ( dead ) skunk without breaking the inner layer, that would be a dangerous job !!