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Location: whitesboro tx 76273 | Has anyone ever tried to get skunks out from underneath their house? This is horrible! I have packed my bags and left. Every night they make noises, then the nasty scent rises, then I leave. I guess they are mating from the sounds that go on. We caught 5 adults in the traps in a week. We have a wing set up outside their entrance with 2 traps on the inside of the wing and 1 trap on the outside of the wing. As soon as we get them cleared out, we can fill in the hole, but not before. Any suggestions would be great. We live way out in the country, so there are plenty of critters everywhere. I have done the lound music thing, but that didn't run them off. We have some smoke bombs, but we are afraid it might kill them instead of clear them out. I got some moth balls to put underneath the floor. I have set up a motion camera, but I guess it wasn't set correctly, cause there weren't any pics on it the first time. I reset it so hopefully I can get an idea of what we are dealing with. I read somewhere that an ammonia receipe might run them off. Help!!!! |
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Location: Here | Yikes Yes moth balls work but then you have that smell yes it is mating season so you don't want babies under there in a few weeks call an exterminator |
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Location: whitesboro tx 76273 | The Terminix man is scheduled to be here on the 27th of this month. He will have his work cut out for him. |
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Location: Dearing, GA | Just so you know it is the beginning of breeding season for the skunks which is why they are suddenly active! Typically they will not spray where they reside though... |
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Location: Texas | Just Let Me Run - 2014-02-21 6:44 AM Just so you know it is the beginning of breeding season for the skunks which is why they are suddenly active! Typically they will not spray where they reside though...
So she just has the love shack lol.
No advice from me, we could smell a skunk so strong last night I had to sniff the dogs before they could come in the house lol. |
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 Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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| We have been fighting the same thing for a couple of years now. I have threatened to stick a hose from the muffler under there. Like you we cant catch anything on the game camera except the barn cats and dog. We aren't smelling anything but hear them under the living room of an evening. I got rid of them once by throwing a bunch of bar bait through the hole but I guess the babies came back to roost. I have even sat outside with the gun waiting for them to come outside at night. The traps only caught the cats. |
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Location: Where ever life takes me, Oklahoma | Oh I feel your pain on this one my hubby and I fought this recently, I think we have finally captured and disposed of all the smelly little creatures from our house. We tried everything we could possibly do to get rid of them, we did moth balls, we did ammonia, etc. you name it we probably tried it. We trapped most of ours.
The only thing we didn't try and it was my next move, someone told us to put a bright light under the house and they would leave since they dont like bright light. Maybe if you can, put a light under there and see if it will run them out. I dont know if that is a proven thing to work or not since we didn't try it. |
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| Moth Balls will work and if you want them dead a couple of handfuls of Chocolate chips will do the trick. good luck
Edited by Mitzer 2014-02-21 8:49 AM
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Lived to tell about it and will never do it again
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| Moth Balls didn't work for us the first time I tried it. I still have some I guess I could put some more out but I hate the smell myself.
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Location: Where ever life takes me, Oklahoma | euchee - 2014-02-21 9:06 AM Moth Balls didn't work for us the first time I tried it. I still have some I guess I could put some more out but I hate the smell myself.
Didn't help with ours either...
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| Ours like it under the hay, at least it's not in the house! Tho we see and smell the little critter (s) almost daily. One likes playing with the cats. The hubb thinks that's cute. NOT!
I can't imagine moth balls not working. I spread them on my horsie graves and it keeps the coyotes away. Maybe skunks don't have the nose sensitivity that other wild creatures have since they have to live with all their own stink? |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | Years ago when I lived in a trailer house, I had this happen.
I set live traps a ways outside my house and caught them so they could be shot. Eventually I got them all. Then my dad and I spaded several inches deep around the skirting of my house, and we put metal up outside of the skirting that was around it and banked it up with gravel. That seemed to solve the problem, we never had any trouble with them getting in there after that. I sold the house and the people that bought it did the same thing. To my knowledge they haven't had a problem either.
Edited by rockinas 2014-02-21 12:01 PM
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| I wouldn't kill them just move them. |
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Location: In a happy place | For those of you that don't want to kill them......skunks are bad to carry rabies. They scare the *********out of me. Here in Texas we have had horses get rabies from skunks. I shot everyone I ever found for this reason. Had some tested and yes they had rabies. Sorry to those of you that don't want to kill them. |
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Location: Here | sorrel horse ranch - 2014-02-21 9:34 PM For those of you that don't want to kill them......skunks are bad to carry rabies. They scare the *********out of me. Here in Texas we have had horses get rabies from skunks. I shot everyone I ever found for this reason. Had some tested and yes they had rabies. Sorry to those of you that don't want to kill them.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Oh no Skunks under the house, that has to be really smelly. Hope that you can get them taken care of. The bright lights sound like a good ideal.
A few years ago my hubby had one wonder into his shop while he was working and this was around noon time and this is when they are suppose to be sleeping and that little fella just walked up to hubby and was smelling him, not a care in the world, hubby called me to come look at this skunk and see what I thought, cause he knows I hate killing anything, I go out there and little skunk is just wondering around comes up to me and I'm thinking hummm this is not good at all, the little fella had what look like mange on him too, so told hubby to go ahead and shoot it, called animal control and tolded them I thought that it might have rabies and wanted to see if they wanted to get it tested, they told me to just throw it over the fence I was like what the heck  really!!!!!!!!, so we buried it and had all our animals and horses get their rabies shots the next day, had a vet come out and he gave a many shots that day around here. |
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Location: The Great West | I see you've done the loud music thing but I was told to get something with a lot of bass, and crank it until the whole house shakes, it's the vibration thar runs them off.
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