GET RID OF SKUNKS HUMANELY AND WITHOUT SPRAYING

Skunks are shy and generally peaceful creatures. They won’t attack you on your property or harm your pets. But these critters can be a major hassle, especially with the smell they emit. To learn more about skunks visit wildlifeanimalcontrol.com

When they feel endangered skunks can spray humans and other animals with a nasty odor as well. No one wants their property smelling like skunks. And, even without the smell, skunks can cause all kinds of property damage. 

Your garden, garbage, yard, and even your trash may be ransacked by skunks if they decide to live near your home. In short, homeowners will have a hard time living alongside a skunk. So, you need to get rid of these animals if you think they are making a home on your property! 

There are a few ways you can do this successfully. But, we will talk about how you can remove skunks painlessly and humanely here in this post.

How To Get Rid of Skunks On Your Property:

1. Secure Your Trash 

Preventative measures are important. Ideally, you should have your trash tightly sealed and covered with a sturdy trash bin. This way no animals get into your garbage. However, if you don’t cover up your trash or leave it outside in the open, now is the time to secure any trash lying around your property. 

Especially if you have skunks on your property, you’ll need to properly tie up and store any trash. We recommend getting a trash bin with a cover that can be locked up.

2. Get Rid of Food Sources

Skunks are not picky about what they eat. In fact, they will eat all kinds of things that they find around your home. This includes any bugs, edible plants, nuts, fruits, and even your garbage. We talked about securing your trash already. 

But, in addition to securing your trash, you also want to pick up any garbage or food that is lying around your property. For instance, if you have leftover food, don’t leave it sitting outside. Pet food should also be taken in at night, as this is when skunks are most active. 

We also recommend cleaning up your garden or yard. If you see nuts, fruits, and other edible substances, get rid of them immediately. This way skunks won’t have a food source to sustain themselves with.  

3. Try Using Natural Sprays

You could spend money on skunk sprays and repellents. Still, natural ingredients can be used to make your very own skunk repellent spray. Peppers, onions, jalapenos, water, and other spices can be mixed together in a spray bottle. This spicy concoction should be sprayed around plants and other areas the skunk roams near. 

4. Take Care of Your Grass

Bugs and other grubs can grow in your grass, especially if you don’t take care of your lawn. In short, you need to keep up with lawn maintenance. This way skunks don’t have a food source to scavenge from. Again, skunks will eat almost anything, this includes bugs they find on your property. 

Mowing your lawn regularly will help, but if you want to take more drastic measures you can treat your lawn with chemicals that will kill any grubs.

5. Put A Fence Around Your Home

Skunks tend to hide in low-altitude areas. You won’t find them on your roof or in other locations that are high up. This makes fences highly effective against skunks. Building a fence around your property can be a great preventative measure. 

But, if you already have a skunk on your property, try taking all the food sources off your property as we talked about. The skunk will have to search for food elsewhere. Once it is gone, put your fence up, this way the skunk won’t have access to your home. 

6. Use Lights and Loud Sounds

Finally, you can use lights and loud sounds to get rid of skunks. These wild animals are not fond of bright lights. They also scare easily with sounds. Try using motion detectors and wind chimes to keep skunks away from your property.

Contact US Wildlife Removal

In some cases, you might not be able to remove a skunk from your property on your own. If the other methods in this guide are not working for you, please feel free to contact US Wildlife Removal. Again, skunks are not dangerous but you do need special permission to trap and transport wild animals in most states. So, it is better to have a professional handle the job for you. 

With our help, you won’t have to deal with the hassle of animal removal. We are available to help you remove skunks and other wildlife humanly and safely. So, contact us today if you need to get a skunk off your property.

How To Remove Skunks From Under Your House

We’re all familiar with skunks – those black and white critters, known for their delightful spray. And unfortunately, we’re all familiar with them not from cartoons, but from the fact that they’re really common across the United States. Now, there are several reasons why you don’t want a skunk hanging about the place, starting, of course, with the smell, but also the damage it might cause to your property, and the disease it might expose you to.

Contrary to popular belief, skunks aren’t a physical threat to children or pets and are unlikely to attack, largely because they don’t have that habit. Because of their unpleasant stench, they are often able to escape conflict and avoid a full-on fight. So at least, you don’t have to worry about that, but you do have to take precautions to keep skunks away.

In this article, US Wildlife Removal will show you how you can remove a skunk from underneath your house.

Why are skunks under the house?

The reason you’re apt to find them hiding under there is that those spaces are ideal – dark and difficult to get to, these gaps and holes often make for excellent wild animal nesting spots.

So here’s how to get rid of them.

Beware before you go down there that you’re probably not dealing with one skunk, but rather a family.

There are a number of ways to get rid of skunks under your property.

• You can try exclusion barriers.

Obviously, the first thing to do is inspect the area and identify the entry hole. Here, you can purchase specially designed exclusion barriers, which are basically one-way doors that will allow the skunk(s) to leave the hole under your house, but not let them get back in, either because the door closes, or because of the way the barrier is built. This can be an effective method of excluding skunks. 

• Use a live trap.

Alternatively, you can plant a live trap (baited with peanut butter, ideally), near the entry point. The live trap uses a plate that will cause the door to fall shut once activated, e.g. once the skunk is inside.

This can be a great way to trap skunks without actually hurting them.

Pro Tip: If you’re dealing with a whole family of skunks, make sure to trap the babies as well, and relocate them as a family unit far away from your house. To do otherwise would be inhumane. Make sure you cover the trap with a towel or cloth, otherwise you risk getting sprayed during the relocation process.

• Call a professional wildlife removal service.

A lot of people think they’re cutting costs when they don’t call a professional wildlife removal service. That’s often not the case. With repairs, traps, and other necessities, you’re already paying quite a bit of money, not to mention you don’t have guaranteed success.

In many cases that we’ve seen, the homeowner first tried to deal with the problem on their own, and only afterward called a wildlife removal professional service. This resulted in more money spent and a lot more time wasted than if they had called the wildlife removal service in the first place. So if you feel confident about your chances of removing the skunk(s) on your own, go for it. But we seriously suggest that you at least consider calling a wildlife removal service from the get-go. These are people who not only will solve your problem quickly and efficiently, but they will also fix the damage, and advise you on how to prevent the problem from reappearing.