Skunk removal & Control How To Trap Skunks

Love is in the air and when we are talking about skunks and a lot of courting and spraying their ever pugnant famous smell. Chances are if you are smelling the odor of a skunk you probably
have a den of female skunks nearby or a female.

Female skunks when courted by males are not at all like Pepe Lepeau in the cartoons many of us may remember as kids. Females are aggressively taken by the male and the courtship is better
defined as a violent affair. Part of this courtship does involve a lot of spraying and creates a a very unpleasureable experience for homeowners or business’s nearby.

Skunks often look for hollow cavities or burrows to set up their dens. Previously occupied and used by skunks in the past or by other animals such as raccoons or opossums in a previous
season. One of the best ways to deter future skunk problems is to ask your wildlife control professional to conduct a thorough inspection for future entry and prevention and suggest habitat
modifications that work for your own property.

Skunks often will den under porches, under mobile or manufactured homes that have not been underpinned properly. Skunks will select large cavities in some trees, in culverts or drains,
woodpiles and the list goes on.

The actual removal or trapping of a skunk often should be left to a professional since most who try to trap them rarely have the nerve or guts to walk up to a trapped skunk in a trap and end up
calling a professional to remove the offending skunk or skunks from the trap anyway.Very few people actually know how to approach a skunk with out being sprayed and frankly the trapping part
is the easy part compared to the actual removal of the offending skunks from your property anyway.

Female skunks often den up with other females and a removal can end up with often with more then one adult skunk and of course their young during birthing and nursing seasons. It is not
uncommon to remove as many as 8-15 skunks from any one den.

Do Skunk Problems Go Away? Not until all the offending skunks in your area have been removed.Most people make the mistake of stopping at trapping all the skunks but without profesional help the den
sites will contue to be used year round by another skunk in the area.

Why Do They Spray? The notorious feature of skunks is their anal scent glands, which they can use as a defensive weapon.Skunks have two glands, one on either side of the anus, that produce a mixture of
sulfur-containing chemicals that have a highly offensive smell that can be described as a combination of the odors of rotten eggs, garlic and burnt rubber. The odor of the fluid is strong enough to ward
off bears and other potential attackers, and can be difficult to remove from clothing. Muscles located next to the scent glands allow them to spray with high accuracy as far as 7 to 15 ft. The smell aside, the
spray can cause irritation and even temporary blindness, and is sufficiently powerful to be detected by even an insensitive human nose anywhere up to a mile downwind. Their chemical defense, though
unusual, is effective!

Do Skunks Carry Disease? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 1,494 cases of rabies in skunks in the United States for the year 2006 about 21.5% of reported cases in all species.