Looks like We have a family of 3+ skunks under our porch. There is at least one baby. Those who had skunks and removed them, please suggest something useful! We are panicking a bit, as we have two dogs. Someone’s gonna be sprayed soon...
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I've heard good things about those skunk smoke bombs. They looks sort of like a big firecracker. You light the fuse and throw it under your deck and it smokes like crazy for a few minutes. Never done it myself, so I'm not personally vouching for them. I'd probably look into whether there's any potential fire hazard, or if they're safe for going under a wooden porch. Someone gave me one to throw under my precast step, but the skunks f'ed off before I got around to doing it. But he swore by it.
311 also will loan you traps, I think. But I'm not sure whether you're still at risk of getting sprayed with those things.
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Looks like We have a family of 3+ skunks under our porch. There is at least one baby. Those who had skunks and removed them, please suggest something useful! We are panicking a bit, as we have two dogs. Someone’s gonna be sprayed soon...
Call a pro. IIRC there are exterminators that specialize in this.
Those things need to be trapped to be removed more often than not, and if you dont know what you're doing...well.
First thing you gotta do is find a beehive. From there you get a Shop-Vac and suck all of the bees into it.
Then you take the Shop-Vac full of angry bees and you put it in a paint-shaker, get those bees nice and riled up, you want there to be animosity.
Then you take the Shop-Vac to the porch and set it on 'Blow' and fire those bees at the Skunks like bullets out of a gun!
I'd recommend having some form of fallout shelter or hermetically sealed environment to retreat to because the Great Bee/Skunk War is going to be bloody, brutal and there will be no prisoners.
Once both sides have exhausted their energy and resources you can then attempt to negotiate some sort of armistice.
Or you can just move.
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There's no way I am trapping those little m...uckers!
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Call the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation. I know in the past, they've removed skunks from people's property, a cousin of my mother in law's volunteers with them & she's "relocated" the stinkers before.
Call the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation. I know in the past, they've removed skunks from people's property, a cousin of my mother in law's volunteers with them & she's "relocated" the stinkers before.
Thanks, Minnie. The phone # listed on their web-site is unavailable and doesn't take voicemail...
ADDED: On a second call, I've got a recorded message giving the contact #'s for Alberta Wildlife and City of Calgary. There is an option to leave a message for a volunteer, which I did. Will see...
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Last edited by CaptainYooh; 06-27-2019 at 05:34 PM.
First thing you gotta do is find a beehive. From there you get a Shop-Vac and suck all of the bees into it.
Then you take the Shop-Vac full of angry bees and you put it in a paint-shaker, get those bees nice and riled up, you want there to be animosity.
Then you take the Shop-Vac to the porch and set it on 'Blow' and fire those bees at the Skunks like bullets out of a gun!
I'd recommend having some form of fallout shelter or hermetically sealed environment to retreat to because the Great Bee/Skunk War is going to be bloody, brutal and there will be no prisoners.
Once both sides have exhausted their energy and resources you can then attempt to negotiate some sort of armistice.
Or you can just move.
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We had a skunk problem. We got suggested to put turpentine oil in bowls (we used plastic) around their entry points. It worked for us, hopefully it works for you too.
Skunks Under Porch - HELP!!!
