Well, about three weeks ago I caught a big female skunk in a body-grip trap set in front of a ground hog hole near my garden (trying to protect my fall spinach and chard - caught 29 groundhogs this year!). I was happy that it was a good catch, the skunk was caught behind the head and didn't spray. So I put on my chemical-handling gloves, took her out ofthe trap cleanly,and tossed her into the nearby woods ...duhhh... about two days later, the glands opened up, and now I can still smell her up bymy house whenever there is an unfavorable wind - Iam burying the next one...argggggg!
- When I used to quail hunt farmsin the foothills of VA, an old codger cautioned me not to shoot the skunks onhis farm, especially the ones that lived under his old shack of a house! He claimed it kept the ague (flu) away. We'd never visited too long, the smell in his house was nauseating.
- fsh