Debby
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I like skunks and luckily have never had a problem with them, I know they are around. Skunks eat honeybees, they will sit outside a bee hive and scratch at the door. The bees come out and the skunk will eat them by the hundred. Aside from all of that, I like skunks, they are pretty smart and in the same family as otters (also weasels, but I'll ignore that). When I was a teenager I volunteered at the Cincinnati Zoo, they had this huge albino skunk named Snowflake that was awesome. He was kind of like a huge friendly cat, that was cooler than a cat.
I've heard they make good pets. A woman down the street use to have a couple. When we have sat traps out, it's never to harm them. It's just to relocate. The tricky part is being able to move the trap without getting sprayed. I think the secret is to make sure the trap isn't too big so the skunk can't raise its tail (or turn around). And maybe throw a blanket over the trap so it can't spray on me directly...if you can get close enough. We have had skunks live in our barn and under our back porch. We have sat live traps out. But the skunks have always moved on before getting trapped. The only casualty we have had was the one our old dog got ahold of.